This movie deserves a decent review just because of the cinematography. It truly felt as if you were seeing from his eyes. I'm not quite sure how they did it, but it looked amazing seeing Franks reflection in mirrors with no camera to be seen, especially when the shot pans away to something else. As for the narrative, my title says it all. I'm not quite sure what the film was missing. The POV perspective was interesting. It makes you feel as if you're trapped in the character's body, as he seems to be trapped in it in a weird way. It feels like he doesn't want to be doing the things he does, and the first person perspective really enhances that. I felt that parts of the movie were amazing. My problem was that during parts of the murder scenes, the film lost it's intelligence, and just felt like another slasher movie. The main character is clearly a deeply disturbed man, and the psychological angle to the film was excellent. But the murder scenes felt like they just added in random crap to make it creepier. And at parts it focused to much on gore. Overall, I'd say this was a good movie. It did a few things wrong, and there's just something about it that I can't really put my finger on as to what was wrong with it. If there had been a few changes, I think this movie could have been an easy 10/10. But lastly, Elijah Wood can really do a creepy character well.
Review of Maniac
