AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Nick Duguay This one had a lot of potential. The beginning was great, and I was really enjoying the film until things started to slow down around the middle. Unfortunately, they didn't pick back up, but instead deteriorated even further to a very unsatisfying ending. The camera work was that typical of 00's films as was the boring colour palette. Despite all of this, it did manage to rise above the typical police thriller. And it's still better than Argento's "neo-giallo" efforts.

morrison-dylan-fan Despite having heard about the film a few years ago,I have somehow never got round to see the major 2004 Giallo that was not directed by Dario Argento.With a poll coming up on IMDbs Classic Film board for the best titles of 2004,I decided that it was time to look into the eyes of crystals.The plot:Called out to a murder scene in a woodland area,Ispettore Amaldi finds that a young couple and a peeping tom have been brutally killed.Taking a look at the women's corpse,Amaldi is horrified to find that the murderer has amputated the victim.Searching for clues,Amaldi spots an area of the woods used by the killer to capture animals,which leads to Amaldi suspecting that the murderer has an interest in dissecting humans & animals.Whilst waiting for the autopsy results,Amaldi decides to visit Agente Ajaccio,who is a former police officer that has recently been put in hospital,after he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.Given medication that leads to him having flashbacks,Ajaccio begins to tell Amaldi about the burning down of the orphanage he grew up in.Although he is able to clearly remember the fire,Ajaccio finds himself struggle to remember the name of a peculiar,fellow student at the orphanage.Trying to nudge Ajaccio's memory,Amaldi receives a call which reveals that the murderer has struck again,which leads to Amaldi deciding that he must dissect the killer,before he finishes his "operations."View on the film:Backed by a chilling score from Francesc Gener,co-writer/(along with Gabriella Blasi and Franco Ferrini) director Eros Puglielli & cinematographer Luca Coassin unleash a blunt Giallo with a jet-black Neo-Noir heart,which creates an extremely grim atmosphere,as Puglielli displays the murder scenes in a stark manner,and drains the movie of almost any bright colours,with Amaldi's world sinking into burnt-out blacks & roaring flames.Along with the strong Neo- Noir atmosphere,Puglielli also gives the title a tantalisingly stylised appearance,as Puglielli expertly uses swift camera moves to show the killer waiting in the shadows for the next victim,which really push the nerve-wrecking tension to the edge,as Puglielli subtly shows Amaldi's desperation in catching the killer,with a change in editing speed.Whilst their adaptation of Luca Di Fulvio's novel L'impagliatore does feature one or two noticeable flaws, (why would a hospital not have any CCTV?)the writers make them ones easy to overlook,thanks to building an intense Giallo,with each murder scene being made central to the case.Initially starting with 3 separate threads,the writers show an amazing precession in coiling them around each other,as Amaldi begins to fear that the identity of the killer may be linked to Ajaccio's fragile memory,as the killer makes things very personal,by setting his sights on reawakening Amaldi's tragic past.Desperate to track down the killer, Luigi Lo Cascio gives a fantastic performance as Ispettore Amaldi,thanks to Cascio showing the murders to cut straight to Amaldi's bones,with each dead body found allowing the demons of the past to grind Cascio down.Wrapping in nightmarish special effects, Simón Andreu gives a tense performance as Agente Ajaccio,with Andreu giving Ajaccio a real sense of desperation,as Ajaccio frantically tries to grip his fading memory,before he looks into the deadly eyes of crystal.

Armand slow, profound, unusual. a "policier" in a different manner, full of nuances, shadows of past and with a central character far from policeman definition.the vulnerability of inspector Amaldi, the delicate love story, the images - bricks of victims, the precise - delicate performance of Luigi Lo Cascio, each are good ingredient for a poetic movie , mixture of roots of past," film noir" and taxidermy. a horror in crime skin. with a good result. sure, it may be a version of Se7ven but in a specific mode. it may be version of a kind of horror , refined, scene for sophisticate mysteries. but it is only a n Italian part of an ambiguous genre , case in which director hopes to create a different product with usual rules. nothing else.

siderite If I would rate the movie compared to other Italian movies I have seen, I would rate it higher, but compared with international horror, it is average. However, it is not the same type of average, as the acting is good, the plot a lot more complex than US movies and the feel is a good old fashioned slow tension increase. The production values are not so good though and I couldn't help wonder: if they dubbed the voices over anyway, and done it poorly, why not do it in English? :)I compared it with Se7en more because it is an icon of movies about personally involved policemen trying to catch a megalomaniac psychopath, other than that it is not too similar. In fact, it is based on a book, which probably explains the depth of the plot. I thought that the darkness in the main character (that's the policeman :) ) was a very nice touch and the movie could have done better without him explaining why he was so driven with his work. Also, having every single character involved with the criminal was a bit of a stretch.Bottom line: very decent horror movie, a bit slow sometimes, other times predictable, but nice enough. Probably with an English translation I would have liked it better still.