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Reviews for 'The Return'
Fan Rating: ( 4 of 5 ) - Film Review: ( 3 of 5 )
Posted by: Ste
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Posted on: 07/06/08 - 8:42:30 AM - EDT
Rating of: 4 of a possible 5

Over all the film was pretty great. The first half was almost flawless (besides a few dodgy accents) with the lighting, sound, and cuts all professional looking and interesting. The characters danced around telling these Batman stories which was good at establishing location and characters, but maybe a little forced and ultimately unnessicary.

The first glimpse of The Joker is geniuenly scary, I paused and re-watched it, but I lost interest a little when the film descended more into a typical 'slasher' flick. Just everything about the 'Joker hunts everyone down' sequence seemed unprofessional, like you'd intentionally kept it brief and quick so that the assassin would be of almost mythic proportions, but it just came off rushed in the film.

Then the film slows down again, and we see the flashbacks and the burying of the 'main baddie', when the film picked up again. Good choice of music, and I liked the blood red colouring of the flashbacks, aswell as the final 2 actors performances. (Also -- although this has nothing to do with the merit or story of the film -- the guy 'buried alive' would quite easily just sit up.)

The film was very very good, the only thing I think you didn't succeed in was the 'slasher' sequence, in which as I've said above regardless of how you wanted it to play out simply seemed rushed like you didn't give a damn and instead wanted to get to the climax (which is possibly true.) I think the film would've been improved if you'd cut a minute or two of the poker game, and added those 2 minutes to the slasher sequence, actually showing more tension and build up other than 'cut/someone dies/cut'.

Hope to see more from you, and maybe one of these days you'll cut whatever you have of The Fall into some sort of Graysonesque extended trailer.

Good work.

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