Dead End
2/10
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Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
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After reading some positive reviews on this film, it reconfirms there's a gigantic gulf between my tastes & others'. Is this what a bunch of people enjoy these days?
First of all, the characters aren't likeable. It's a family (mom, dad, 26 daughter, 20 son, 28 boyfriend) and they all talk "like sailors" to each other. In the first 5 mins, I could warm up to them a bit, but then the rest was unlikeable. Were their lines supposed to be funny? It wasn't to me. And then they go perverted, but it still wasn't funny. It's a rated R film, how young do you have to be to find this funny?
Secondly, the characters act illogically, which really irks me. (More on that below in the Spoilers)
Third, it's never scary. It's dark humor, I know, still fails to be scary. (New poster "RealityComplex" listed this as a film he thought was scary; so I checked it out.)
The cinematography & sound is good. It's an excellent cast. It had a good premise. It just seems to me a 14 yr old wrote the script, or the film is made for folk very different from me.
Spoilers
The characters were acting illogical. At the end of the film it's revealed it's "a dream". There's dream films where the main characters act logical, such as Inception & Dreamscape -- it works when things BESIDE the main characters are dream-like-illogical. When you lose the anchor of the main character's logic, the contrast is lost. Sure, a film can have dream moments where characters act illogical... but illogical the whole film is too much.