Name: Scar Tissue (2013)
IMDb: link to IMDb
Genres: Thriller Country of Origin: UK.
Cast: Danny Horn as Luke, Charity Wakefield as Sam, Mark Cameron as DI Hackman, Imogen Bain as Mo McQueen.
Written and directed by: Scott Michell.
The initial tableaux: Luke celebrates his 21st birthday by getting drunk with his friends and perhaps laid. He's not used to being drunk, and takes no measures to protect himself. He wakes up from being passed out because someone phones him. He discovers his friend dead and hacked up in his bathroom. He gets another call that hooks him up with Sam, a suspended, unstable police sergeant. The police soon are swarming over his flat. Sam knows the presiding detective, Hackman; they have a prickly history.
Delineation of conflicts: The police want to question Luke; Luke wants to keep his freedom. Sam wants to solve this case, since it involves indirectly her murdered sister Lucy. Hackman wants Sam to get lost. The murderer likes playing with them as well as killing people. He kidnaps people, then forces them to do his bidding.
Resolution: The principals need to identify the kidnapper/murderer.
One line summary: Old experiment ends badly.
Statistics:
a. Cinematography: 3/10 Washed out appearance. The dark passages are especially bad since the cameras were not sufficient for the low light levels.
b. Sound: 4/10 It's a quiet sort of film, most of the time. What music there is seemed to be electronic from cheap instruments. The music did not help, nor did the leveling problems between voice and background.
c. Acting: 1/10 Oh, so very bad.
d. Screenplay: 0/10 The film was next to opaque at the beginning. The actions of the characters were not well motivated. The philosophising toward the end came out of nowhere. As the philosophy changed to particulars, the film started to make a bit more sense. The marching to the wretched conclusion was perhaps the worst part of the film. None of the characters were worth caring about.
Final rating: 1/10
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