Fred
I often rate films on IMDB, but rarely feel compelled to write a review to explain why I gave the rating I gave.I'm not in the film industry, but I am in the television industry, and have a lot of friends and colleagues who work on film projects and, in fact, produce their own low budget efforts like this one, so I typically understand the problems of production work flow and how low budget movies can suffer from even simple things, like continuity and special effects problems, and I try to look for the good in direction and acting and, of course, the story as a foundation of the entire movie.Had there been even a minor step up in audio production, I would have actually watched this movie to the end, but my constant volume adjustments just got too tedious to bear. That, among other things, made this movie essentially unwatchable.The movie hilariously starts showing a flyover of Seattle (see below for why). The two main characters are part of a special U.S. government organization, both with personal problems that have kept them from working for some time, both being recalled for this "special" mission to retrieve what's left of a government satellite that may not have completely burned up on reentry into our atmosphere. Just coincidentally, and conveniently, one has a Serbian accent... doing "special ops" for the U.S. government, based in Seattle, apparently. They meet to discuss the mission and Agent Smith (yes, really) says "let's take a drive."No, really. Supposedly in Seattle, they immediately jump to a car driving down the road in Serbia. No stock shots of planes, or walking out of an airport, they are just magically driving down the road there. While these b-roll driving sequences aren't very long, they certainly feel that way as the background music is turned up to intolerable levels, forcing me to turn down the volume (maybe if it was better music I could have left it turned up). Every time there is a pause in dialog, where we see the car driving down the highway, or the characters walking through a field, the music destroys any sense of mood you might have otherwise had.At one point, where I have the dialog at acceptable volume levels, the two main characters - I kid you not - turn and walk away from the camera, and their dialog becomes impossible to hear without cranking up the volume again. Really? No boom mic operator back there? No dubbing (the characters weren't even facing the camera, it wouldn't have been hard)? It was at this point that my wife and I just decided to watch something else.At least with movies like these I'd like be able to say "sorry, but an A for effort!" But no... I can't even do that this time.
alexlaurenceau
Couldn't watch this movie properly because my concentration was constantly interrupted by the horrible and overwhelming soundtrack in this movie... Even from the first second in the intro. Sadly the movie would have been better even Without any music... anyways was terribly painful to watch
