Sorry, indie filmmakers. Maybe start with a better script?
The setup is okay. But a guy losing his marbles has been done a million times (and brilliantly with "The Shining" 4 decades ago), so why tell THIS story? How is it different? What makes this story so special to tell?
And unlike "The Shining" which had a significant Supernatural component -- none of that is present here. Nothing supernatural, just a guy who's crazy to begin with (though we don't know that at the beginning), and proceeds to lose it more & more during the movie. Ho-hum.
And the big "twist" near the end, that his pregnant girlfriend doesn't even exist...? Yawn.
The only reason this gets more than one star, is because the actors were good. But there's no depth to this story, there's nothing "special" about this story. In short, it's entirely skippable.
The setup is okay. But a guy losing his marbles has been done a million times (and brilliantly with "The Shining" 4 decades ago), so why tell THIS story? How is it different? What makes this story so special to tell?
And unlike "The Shining" which had a significant Supernatural component -- none of that is present here. Nothing supernatural, just a guy who's crazy to begin with (though we don't know that at the beginning), and proceeds to lose it more & more during the movie. Ho-hum.
And the big "twist" near the end, that his pregnant girlfriend doesn't even exist...? Yawn.
The only reason this gets more than one star, is because the actors were good. But there's no depth to this story, there's nothing "special" about this story. In short, it's entirely skippable.