Name: The Sin Seer (2015)
IMDb: link to The Sin Seer page
Genres: Crime. Country of origin: USA.
Cast: (voice)
Lisa Arrindell as Rose Ricard, Isaiah Washington as Grant Summit, Michael Ironside as Alexander Rachet, Sally Richardson-Whitfield as Nia, C Thomas Howell as Detective Rigers, Carrie Anne Hunt as Melissa, Richard Brooks as Jake Ballard.
Directed by: Paul D. Hannah. Written by: Paul D. Hannah.
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The initial tableaux:
PI Rose and her receptionist Melissa pick up Grant Summit from prison. Grant interviews Abagail Landers, whose boxer husband Daniel Landers has been missing for three months. She was referred to Rose by Detective Rigers, who thinks Rose has a gift. Abagail is convinced that Daniel is still alive.
Delineation of conflicts:
The police are done with the case. Rose decides to take the matter on. She and Grant pursue the truth, and dig up a nest of problems.
Rose has a gift for knowing the true intentions of those whom she interviews. This leads to a lot of disagreements about procedure.
Grant is a former boxer who trained at the same gym as Daniel Landers. Boxing gyms always have their secrets, and Grant's probing of old problems is not appreciated by all.
Grant has a past that landed him in prison. Have the motives driving him in the past been cleansed, or is he part of the current problem?
Resolution: There are a number of deaths before the source of the problem is neutralised. The problem is, what exactly is the central problem? The mob, the cops, or Grant?
One line summary: Female PI with psychic gifts.
Statistics:
Cinematography: 4/10 A narrow depth of focus follows through many scenes. Other parts of the film are gorgeous in HD. The mixing is strange. The use of Dutch angles made good sense in some scenes, and not so much in others. There were intervals of shaky cam footage, which added to the overall impression that the film was a hodgepodge, not a coherent professional effort.
Sound: 5/10 Not the best. The dialog sounded hollow all too often. The incidental music was atmospheric now and then, but did not add all that much.
Acting: 4/10 Michael Ironside's performance was pretty good, as was Isaiah Washington's. I like Sally Richardson-Whitfield in some properties, but not so much in this one. The rest of the cast seemed iffy at best. C. Thomas Howell's role was rather short; one gets the feeling that he was present just to have another recognisable name.
Screenplay: 3/10 Some of the lines sounded outright stupid, which I usually don't care for. The many biblical quotes seemed more like smoke and mirrors than statements addressing particular points. The exposition of motivations was often murky. There were quite a number of flashbacks. There were so many that I found some passages to be chaotic, rather than illustrative.
One also wonders how it is that Grant suffers no legal consequences for all the murders he commits during the film. Some of these were not concealed in the least, and yet he was not arrested.
Final Rating: 4/10
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