|
SURVEILLANCE Send This Review to a Friend
There is no shortage of candidates for worst film of the year. Put “Surveillance” high on the list. Director Jennifer Lynch, with her father David Lynch as executive producer, has made what purports to be a horror-suspense film but is merely a heavy-handed exercise in creating a disgusting blood bath.
A male and female show up as federal agents (Bill Pullman and Julia Ormand) at a police station in a nowhere town and assert control of an investigation into a savage slaughter. Anyone familiar with crime tales should quickly guess who is responsible. With the suspense taken away, little remains but the violence as the be-all, end-all of the tale written by Ms. Lynch and Kent Harper.
There is one tolerable aspect of the film, and that is the performance of Ryan Simpklins as an eight-year-old girl who knows more than she should for her well-being.
The director knows all the superficial moves of mixing scare tactics with gruesomeness and working up concern for the endangered youngster. But all adds up to cheap exploitation. A Magnet Releasing release.
|