W Delta Z is a rather clunky name for a movie, especially one marketed at horror fans, so from here on in, I'm just gonna call it Waz.
Waz is actually a pretty good movie, you don't realise how good until you sit down to think about after the event. I mean, sure, I'm interested in finding out exactly why some lunatic is apparently electrocuting people and carving a mathematical equation into there chest. I'm interested also to find out what the deal is with Eddie Argo, and I really want to find out whether Helen is going to prove she has any place in the police force or not. But I never thought that the answer to the first two questions would tie in so well with each other.
The answers as it turns out is that Eddie did something really bad a few years back that set into action a series of events that led to wronged party becoming a psychotic lunatic.
Skarsgard is in strange form on this, he's either sleepwalking through the movie, or putting in a really good performance of a hardened man so calloused and scarred that he just doesn't care about anything. The film's closing stages tend me to lean towards the latter opinion.
Another tricky one for me was Melissa George. I mean, her early scenes made me actually care about her character, but from there it's all over the place. I guess in the end her suspicions and fears are vindicated, as is the integrity of her character, while Skarsgard's Eddie turns out to be much worse than you cold possibly have thought at the start of the film. But the journey her character takes is so poorly mapped out that if I didn't know from her other roles that she was a good actress, I probably would have blamed her totally for it. She tries hard with the character she's given, but falls short.
Now some of the cutting is strange. It seems to happen a number of times over the course of the film, so I guess it was intended. The only reason I mention it is because it is quite noticeable.
There is nudity, and a really disgusting torture scene near the film's end. This is not a trip down terror lane, it's a detective movie. Certainly not for the squeamish but well worth a look.
Waz is actually a pretty good movie, you don't realise how good until you sit down to think about after the event. I mean, sure, I'm interested in finding out exactly why some lunatic is apparently electrocuting people and carving a mathematical equation into there chest. I'm interested also to find out what the deal is with Eddie Argo, and I really want to find out whether Helen is going to prove she has any place in the police force or not. But I never thought that the answer to the first two questions would tie in so well with each other.
The answers as it turns out is that Eddie did something really bad a few years back that set into action a series of events that led to wronged party becoming a psychotic lunatic.
Skarsgard is in strange form on this, he's either sleepwalking through the movie, or putting in a really good performance of a hardened man so calloused and scarred that he just doesn't care about anything. The film's closing stages tend me to lean towards the latter opinion.
Another tricky one for me was Melissa George. I mean, her early scenes made me actually care about her character, but from there it's all over the place. I guess in the end her suspicions and fears are vindicated, as is the integrity of her character, while Skarsgard's Eddie turns out to be much worse than you cold possibly have thought at the start of the film. But the journey her character takes is so poorly mapped out that if I didn't know from her other roles that she was a good actress, I probably would have blamed her totally for it. She tries hard with the character she's given, but falls short.
Now some of the cutting is strange. It seems to happen a number of times over the course of the film, so I guess it was intended. The only reason I mention it is because it is quite noticeable.
There is nudity, and a really disgusting torture scene near the film's end. This is not a trip down terror lane, it's a detective movie. Certainly not for the squeamish but well worth a look.