Review of Chariot

Chariot (2013)
5/10
What the hell kind of ending is that
6 February 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Lets me be frank and simple because I'm not gonna make something big out of this.

The movie is damn interesting... Like really REALLY catchy. Something new and confusing but in a good way tends to appear through out every 10 minutes.

There's a deception, lies, plotting, betrayal and much more stacking up through out this mysterious experience...

Simply said this movie is really good....that is up until that dreadful ending. I won't spoil to much here but its like the director just freaking gave up. They went this far with this type of conspiracy theory based story and it unfolds with great intrigue. Characters turning on each other, some working together trying to overcome the situation without the major Hollywood action packed bullshit. The film is different that way.

But that ending is still just such a major anti-climatic joy kill that really messes up the entire thing. It's such a disappointing way to end something that developed so well through those 90 + minutes.

Giving up in the end is the perfectly correct term to describe how this concluded a really interesting story with aspects not cliché whatsoever.

It reminds me of the Alien Colonial marines video game ending: One sentence that sums up the entire thing and.... fade out...done....the end... Anti-climatic doesn't begin to describe such endings are. Especially considering how this could've unfolded instead. They came this far with fiction and coul've ended it the same way. Instead its like fiction for almost 90 minutes and then...freezes...Due to what really happened which nobody knows except for the government (ha ha) it's decided to leave it up to the viewers to fill in the blanks....bull s h i t. Hell... You know what, even Vanishing on 7th street had an ending to the Croatoan mystery thing...which isn't even a real mystery anymore.

Anyway... All in all its a good film. Could've been better if not for that dreadful climax...

Worth a look definitely. Really get your mind going... damn interesting but be mindful... The bigger the pleasure the bigger the disappointment...
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