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Nacho VigalondoDrehbuch:
Nacho VigalondoKamera:
Jon D. DomínguezMusik:
Jorge MagazBesetzung:
Elijah Wood, Sasha Grey, Neil Maskell, Iván González, Owen Egerton, Daniel Pérez Prada, Nic Brown, Trevante Rhodes, Raúl Cimas, Adam Quintero (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Nick Chambers (Elijah Wood) betreibt eine beliebte Fan-Website, in der sich alles um die umjubelte Schauspielerin Jill Goddard (Sasha Grey) dreht. Als er bei einem Wettbewerb ein Abendessen mit Jill gewinnt, sieht sich Nick am Ziel seiner Träume. Geduldig wartet er am vereinbarten Abend in seinem Hotelzimmer – doch statt eines Candlelight-Dinners erwartet ihn eine herbe Enttäuschung: Ein Anrufer, der sich als Mitarbeiter von Jills offizieller Website vorstellt, informiert ihn darüber, dass die Schauspielerin den Termin ohne Begründung abgesagt habe. Stattdessen offeriert der Unbekannte einen „Ausgleich". Er verfügt über ein Netz von Videokameras, mit denen er Jill nahezu lückenlos überwachen kann – sogar ihr Smartphone ist angezapft. Nick kann mit seinem Laptop auf das Netz zugreifen und Jill nach Herzenslust ausspionieren: eine einmalige Chance, die er nach kurzem Zögern auch nutzt. Doch schnell zeigt sich, dass sein Wohltäter weit mehr im Schilde führt, als Nicks Voyeurismus zu bedienen. Er plant das perfekte Verbrechen, bei dem er Nick die Rolle des Erfüllungsgehilfen zugedacht hat... (Maritim Pictures)
(mehr)Kritiken (3)
An interesting premise for the cyber internet, but very unrealistically rendered, but it can be tolerated. Elijah Wood is passable, Sasha Grey is seductive, the pacing is pretty decent, the film is suspenseful and entertaining at the same time, so 3 stars must absolutely do it justice.
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So far, the bullshit of the year and I don’t think anyone can beat it in the three months we have left. The promising Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo has perpetrated a thriller that’s ridiculously unlikely in every possible sense. The “formal” sense, the camera jumping between the windows in the protagonist’s laptop is not as conceptually focused as in this year’s much better The Den, it often feels absurd (modelling the frame from the boot of car), and by the end I wasn’t even sure whether I was still looking at the windows of the titular notebook, or if things had jumped to another device, or somewhere else entirely, or what. And that is only the tip of the iceberg. As a layman, I can’t judge the technical aspect – but even then I think most of the IT stuff was nonsense, though maybe, technically it’s actually possible, if the characters are leading experts or hackers... But then I would expect them to be more savvy in other things as well, but they aren’t. At all. The script is just awful, some of the twists and the clumsy reveals of the characters’ motivations made me almost laugh/cry hysterically. And most of the time it feels even more stupid than it actually is after the final reveal, and so much that I think many people will switch it off after half an hour, because they simply won’t want to watch such a bunch of idiots. And it’s actually that twist that brings the rating up to a merciful two stars, it turns an “absurdly idiotic film” into an “absurdly jumbled film” (where the main plot structure turns out to be relatively rational, though tragically unauthentic and unconvincing), which makes the diagnosis a little less serious.
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Despite its flaws, I enjoyed the film, and despite its rather long runtime, it managed to hold my attention. That was mostly because I was expecting how convoluted it would be. It's needlessly convoluted, but the form really clicked for me, and I didn't mind it at all. Elijah Wood is becoming an intriguing icon of horror, and I'm curious about what other film he'll appear in next, as it could again be interesting in some way.
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