As an Italian myself, I always hope the industry could come back to its golden era but I get deluded every time.
First of all, this movie should be renamed as The Dutch Angles for the insane amount of this type of shots the director used for 90% of the time. We got it, it's a thriller and he wanted to create tension by that technique but it's not needed for every single scene!
And the editing was not helping at all: random flashbacks, useless to the storyline, that made me take a couple seconds to understand we were not in the present.
Then the classic, bad Italian acting: I'm used to the always academic and not believable interpretations of our actors so I found this just amusing but If you're not Italian and you happen to watch this film in its original language, please remember: we don't talk like that in this country.
Last, but not least, the screenplay: very poor, with no sense whatsoever and full of stereotypes.
On top of that, a very slow pace that made me give up 30 min to the end.
First of all, this movie should be renamed as The Dutch Angles for the insane amount of this type of shots the director used for 90% of the time. We got it, it's a thriller and he wanted to create tension by that technique but it's not needed for every single scene!
And the editing was not helping at all: random flashbacks, useless to the storyline, that made me take a couple seconds to understand we were not in the present.
Then the classic, bad Italian acting: I'm used to the always academic and not believable interpretations of our actors so I found this just amusing but If you're not Italian and you happen to watch this film in its original language, please remember: we don't talk like that in this country.
Last, but not least, the screenplay: very poor, with no sense whatsoever and full of stereotypes.
On top of that, a very slow pace that made me give up 30 min to the end.