Review of Skew (2011) by Emma L — 26 Nov 2012
Another trip into shaky hand held footage starts with a promising idea but sadly fizzles out very inconclusively and not to any kind of satisfaction.
Three friends set out on a trip they have all anticipating for some time. Rich & Eva are the young couple with the camera obsessed Simon playing gooseberry after his girlfriend Laura pulls out at the last minute.
The road trip was to take them to a wedding, a wedding they never reach, as each traveller brings their own baggage to the fold and a string of fatal occurrences litter their journey.
Loyalties are tested and tempers fray as truthes come out and disputes between the three escalate.
Some of the strange events are quite well done, but one in particular is not. These events are never really built upon and they don't really exact any menace. They rarely touch on the significance of they distorted faces appearing on the camera footage and there are inconsistencies between that and the supposed link with the fatallities, both human & animal.
The protagonist are fairly effective with their roles but the conclusion is just empty and somewhat incomplete.
This review of Skew (2011) was written by Emma L on 26 Nov 2012.
Skew has generally received negative reviews.
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