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Just when you thought cheap horrors were dying away….
Jennifer Lynch’s latest film Surveillance will be screened during the Cannes Film Festival. I’m not exactly sure why, having seen the trailer above.
The film tells the tale of an FBI agent on the trail of a murderer. He watches interviews conducted with three witnesses of a certain incident: a junkie, a cop, and a little girl. The only problem is that their stories seem to vary wildly. Dealing with police brutality and serial killers, the film in principle seems like a cross between The Hitcher and Rashomon. The trailer attempts to throw in some pseudo-intellectualism with the tagline “Truth is illusion”, but it doesn’t really stick. The film really looks like another run-of-the-mill Saw-wannabe with a dash of CSI thrown in for the mix.
It pains me to say it, but I suspect nepotism has a factor in the making of this movie. For Jennifer Lynch is the daughter of David Lynch, the director of great dream-like mysteries such as Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks. Jennifer’s last film was Boxing Helena, which was unanimously slated by critics at the time, and boasts a miserable 3.8 score on IMDB. This film doesn’t look much better, an off-aim idea that probably won’t sustain its 100 minutes, and was funded by Daddy’s reputation (indeed, the trailer tries to sell itself with the blatent message “Executive Producer: David Lynch”). Although Jennifer is flesh and blood, it seems as if talent isn’t hereditary.
worldtraveler1 said
April 30 2008 @ 8:13 pm
It is clear that the person who wrote this review is a young, inexperienced beginner that is not well informed and definetly mis-lead about the film industry. First of all anyone who quotes anything from IMDB or uses it as a credible source is lost from the get-go. It is a private site that has no affiliation with anything whatsoever and is loaded with innaccurate information. How could someone talk so horribly about a film they never even saw and expect people to listen or take them seriously? Good luck youngin…Find a towel and dry your ears.
eoin ofaolain said
May 1 2008 @ 7:55 am
Er… okay, care to elaborate? The onyl info I took from IMDB was the score of Boxing Helena, which is a general indicator of how unpopular the film was. That, and it’s poor box office performance.
As for the plot, I took that from other sources, and of course from the trailer. My opinion of the film is of course taken from the trailer. It’s supposed to sell as movie, and it doesn’t do its job very well. I dont’ make any comment about the film itself, and if you paid attention, the closest I get is saying “It looks like”, not, “It is”.
Alexi said
May 3 2008 @ 9:47 am
How I wish that there were a way to score a rating on a blog such as this one. It would surely rank far below a 3.8.
You might, if you wish to be taken as seriously as you take yourself, learn how to spell. A class in punctuation at the Learning Annex would also be in order. And it’s reassuring to know that talent owes nothing to heredity. That at least absolves your forebears. Still, they must be so proud of you down at the sty.