Review of Proxy (2014) by Riyad F — 29 Jan 2016

Started off very well. In fact, for a little while I had trouble understanding why this movie had so many mixed reactions. The music was good, it was going at a nice pace that was setting the mood, and the twists were pretty interesting.

Then an hour in the main character is killed and it all falls apart in so many ways that it's almost baffling. The acting takes a nosedive, the movie starts to look its budget (and even cheaper), it plods along to the inevitable ending that doesn't really satisfy anyone. The entire second half could have been cut by probably 40 minutes and been more compelling. None of the characters were impossible to relate to, let alone actually like. The direction the movie takes is predictable, yet we're forced to suffer through long, tireless scenes of actors seemingly unsure what their motivations are, let alone how to deliver the bad dialogue.

Just really disappointing after a pretty good first half.