Review of Trigger Man (2007) by Bruce R — 16 Oct 2010

***WARNING***.

This movie will test your patience, but if you stick with it, it becomes a great story of cat and mouse.

What do I mean by test your patience's? Well nothing really happens in the movie until the lat 30 minutes. Before that it's a lot of one take shots of 3 guys walking around and talking. That's not even an exaggeration it's almost an hour of nothing really happening. The story is about 3 friends that decide to go hunting one morning and eventually they are targeted by a sniper in the woods.

That just about sums up the plot of the movie, and I will say that there were times during the film where I was saying, "Get to the point already." The pacing is very slow, and it's done deliberately to pull you into a false sense of what this movie is. If someone just told you it was a hunting movie you'd be pretty shocked when the action did finally come. But once the action comes the suspense never stops.

The movie reminds me an old 70's suspense film like Deliverance. Which is the kind of staple that the director is becoming famous for. His other films all have a feeling of late 70's early 80's horror films. Ti West is a great filmmaker and it's nice to see what he can do with so little, (see House Of The Devil, another of his films) I am looking forward to him actually having a budget on a film and seeing what he can do with it.

This film has almost no plot to it, and a feeling of a documentary, It's going to be a movie that you either love or hate. I did enjoy the film but my girlfriend and co-collaborator on most of these reviews hated the film and almost fell asleep a few times. Although she agrees if you can make it to the last 30 minutes it's almost worth watching. So you've been given fair warning. But I would say this is a movie you should see if only once.