THIS IS NOT A WESTERN, AND DOESNT PRETEND TO BE SO STOP COMMENTING THAT IT ISN'T A WESTERN! WE KNOW!!
Seriously, there's references to WW2 in this movie so stop your whining and appreciate there's some people on planet Earth who still live and who were around when this movie is set.
That aside, I'm normally quite brutal with low budget films (especially the seriously hard-core 'no-budget-whatsoever) English and Scottish movies that now pollute the movie-buffs outskirts.....
That said, I actually sat through this short film without a break and enjoyed it. It's about as predictable as they come - the actors were ALL unknown to me (as an ignorant Britisher) and 60 seconds into the film you KNEW exactly what was going to happen to everyone involved.
Poor Red.
I stuck with it and it was pretty good as far as LB movies go - it gave a good representation of the era, the actors and actresses were all fairly competent given what they had to work with and it most certainly did not look like a totally amateur iPhone movie. Some people might say 'did you really need to watch the film to know what was going to happen?'
Well yeah. Only thing I've noticed with low budget movies like this, and this IS a criticism - GIVE THE MAIN CHARACTERS A BACKSTORY! In this film there was absolutely none whatsoever. Not even a belch on anyone. Not even the main protagonists.
Other than that, I'd watch it again in the future. Its certainly not Roots or Mudbound, but I wish genuine success to the writers, directors, actors, and all involved. As I say I'm very unforgiving but this gets a thumbs up from me.
6/10.
Seriously, there's references to WW2 in this movie so stop your whining and appreciate there's some people on planet Earth who still live and who were around when this movie is set.
That aside, I'm normally quite brutal with low budget films (especially the seriously hard-core 'no-budget-whatsoever) English and Scottish movies that now pollute the movie-buffs outskirts.....
That said, I actually sat through this short film without a break and enjoyed it. It's about as predictable as they come - the actors were ALL unknown to me (as an ignorant Britisher) and 60 seconds into the film you KNEW exactly what was going to happen to everyone involved.
Poor Red.
I stuck with it and it was pretty good as far as LB movies go - it gave a good representation of the era, the actors and actresses were all fairly competent given what they had to work with and it most certainly did not look like a totally amateur iPhone movie. Some people might say 'did you really need to watch the film to know what was going to happen?'
Well yeah. Only thing I've noticed with low budget movies like this, and this IS a criticism - GIVE THE MAIN CHARACTERS A BACKSTORY! In this film there was absolutely none whatsoever. Not even a belch on anyone. Not even the main protagonists.
Other than that, I'd watch it again in the future. Its certainly not Roots or Mudbound, but I wish genuine success to the writers, directors, actors, and all involved. As I say I'm very unforgiving but this gets a thumbs up from me.
6/10.