How does a cop live with himself after realizing he murdered an innocent person? How does the family lives through the loss of a loved one after a police officer, who should protect the innocent, murders them?
This is a very serious topic that needs a careful and respectful approach. This movie however fails so hard I have no words for it. This movie is trash.
I see what the director Michael Nell tried to do, but after only a few minutes you will realize, he is ether incompetent or he does not care. Not a single minute was invested into researching for this movie. At least nothing that would properly support the topics he tried to address.
Technically it is a very bad movie. Camerawork is very cheap with consistent camera shake. Basically, absolutely indistinguishable from any other factory produced movie.
The actors were not that bad except Brian Geraghty (THE LEAD ACTOR) who is exceptionally untalented. He has the same face through the entire movie. He cant act at all. The person he played did not have a character or a personality, so they shove a relation ship with Bethany Joy Lenz. This relationship is frustratingly distracting from the main story. Additionally, if you cut it out entirely from the movie, the story would be absolutely unaffected by it.
The mourning family was believable. I felt the pain and loss of Edwina Findley Dickerson.
Anyone remember the footage of the cop who shot the mentally ill person? Yea, the cop broke this day. I hoped to see something similar in this movie, but no. Nothing really happens. No emotions. Barely any regret. At some point he steals some papers from a layer to find out who called the cops on this day. It is very lame and unrealistic how he gets the phone number of the kid. Then he assaulted the kid. From my knowledge in law, his action was basically a "get out of jail" card. Even thought the kid should held accountable for calling the cops because of a hostage situation, the kid would go free because of the assault.
Luckily the ending was not a total wash and the cop did the right thing. He pleaded guilty in court.
I am not a cop, nor have I lost a person to a police officer, but I felt insulted by this movie and it's tone deaf approach. In a way I want to recommend this movie just to see how it fails technically and how it fails to represent a very heavy topic.
This is a very serious topic that needs a careful and respectful approach. This movie however fails so hard I have no words for it. This movie is trash.
I see what the director Michael Nell tried to do, but after only a few minutes you will realize, he is ether incompetent or he does not care. Not a single minute was invested into researching for this movie. At least nothing that would properly support the topics he tried to address.
Technically it is a very bad movie. Camerawork is very cheap with consistent camera shake. Basically, absolutely indistinguishable from any other factory produced movie.
The actors were not that bad except Brian Geraghty (THE LEAD ACTOR) who is exceptionally untalented. He has the same face through the entire movie. He cant act at all. The person he played did not have a character or a personality, so they shove a relation ship with Bethany Joy Lenz. This relationship is frustratingly distracting from the main story. Additionally, if you cut it out entirely from the movie, the story would be absolutely unaffected by it.
The mourning family was believable. I felt the pain and loss of Edwina Findley Dickerson.
Anyone remember the footage of the cop who shot the mentally ill person? Yea, the cop broke this day. I hoped to see something similar in this movie, but no. Nothing really happens. No emotions. Barely any regret. At some point he steals some papers from a layer to find out who called the cops on this day. It is very lame and unrealistic how he gets the phone number of the kid. Then he assaulted the kid. From my knowledge in law, his action was basically a "get out of jail" card. Even thought the kid should held accountable for calling the cops because of a hostage situation, the kid would go free because of the assault.
Luckily the ending was not a total wash and the cop did the right thing. He pleaded guilty in court.
I am not a cop, nor have I lost a person to a police officer, but I felt insulted by this movie and it's tone deaf approach. In a way I want to recommend this movie just to see how it fails technically and how it fails to represent a very heavy topic.