Review of The Face of an Angel (2014) by Paula P — 06 Feb 2016

You can't help but be disappointed when you watch a film based on a mysterious unsolved and very tragic and sad murder, only to find it's the sad and parfetic story of a movie director who lives a rather sad life snorting cocaine on his lonesome, and falling for every girl he meets only to discover he's incapable of any basic interactions with them -apart from sex of course as they all jump in bed with him immediately without any prior enquiries into why he appears to be a complete douche and flawed personality.

Throw in some bizarre suspenseful sequences that are designed to deceive the viewer into believing the case has some mystery unknown suspect only to turn out to be dreams of this same character. And a bizarre attempt from him to suddenly solve the case with the most basic evidence were supposed to believe has been overlooked by all, and a random and equally bizarre character who happily tells anyone listening he witnessed the murder yet is never considered a suspect by anyone but our bird brain film maker. All which turns out to be inconsequential and likely just further signs this film maker is indulging in far too much cocaine. All in all a recipe for completely disillusioning your audience.

All in all you have a film that is trying to gain some viewership from pretending to be something it is not. Sure they get the excuses in early in the script itself by stating it has to be non fiction. An advantage of making a film about making a film, generally just a bore and possibly an insult to all those involved in the actual case.