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Blind (2004)
Awful, awful, awful. A 10 on the Stink-O-Meter!
Ugh. It's hard to describe the acting in this movie, and I'm using the word very loosely. Suffice it to say that almost none of these "actors" would make it in dinner theater in Peoria...or even in a high-school play. It was so bad that I had to fast-forward through some parts just to make it to the end, and I've never done that to a movie before.
There's a "making of" feature on this disc where they say something about realizing at some point that they don't have enough film to make the movie, and I think it's obvious because there doesn't seem to have been a single take that didn't get included in the final movie. It could only have been worse if the actors were actually holding their scripts rather than reading them off of cue cards.
Perhaps you're thinking that I'm just over-stating things, but I have to assure you that I'm not. I think if you picked any 10 people off of the street at random and asked them to read parts in this script that they'd have to be better overall than this cast. In the making-of feature they mention investors, and somehow I'm sure I've already met them all.
But enough about the actors. What about the movie? Well, the opening scenes were really odd...I couldn't figure out what they were trying to depict (there was no dialog). As it turns out, that was intentional...but (and I won't give away the *weak, pointless* plot here) the best I could figure after watching those scenes three times was that the main character had gone to work one day, then a meeting of managers happened, then he was fired and ended up sitting on his front stoop reading the classifieds looking for a job and drinking coffee. Nothing could have been farther from the truth, and it would have been best if those scenes had been left out entirely. They were only included so that they could come back to them right at the end of the movie, and by then you had to have figured it out already unless you were sleeping through the previous scene.
Suffice it to say that this movie is unwatchable, and even if you do make it to the end the twist (that you've known all along must be coming to make some sense out of the cheesy story) isn't worth the price of admission. Avoid this movie! Then again, that's only my opinion...I could be wrong. Who wants pie?