Review of Whiplash (2014) by Nedryerson1 — 18 Feb 2015

Whiplash is JK Simmons shining around and getting everyone at his feet. His acting as the music teacher that pushes students to the edge is absolutely breathtaking, nothing like what I have seen in a long time.

This character represents all the obstacles that life puts in front a person that wants to succeed on a certain topic. The work with the cameras really helped to create this figure, staying with details and looking up, at him, or down, at the rest.

The problems with this film starts when you look around at the other things on screen; the plot is almost nonexistent, leading to a chaos of nonsense; the protagonist is not well defined, making impossible for the viewer to understand his actions and decisions; and the camera's work that was magnificent at the beginning is lost along the way.

So many incoherent things together definitely can't maintain a person's attention, although if you like to hear an hour forty five of drums, this movie is for you.