Review by Jeff Hudson
Directed by: David Ondaatje
Starring:
Hope Davis/Ellen
Alferd Molina/Chandler
Shane West/Street
Donal Logue/Joe
Plot:
A seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, the detective soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer incarcerated years ago. Could the wrong man be behind bars?
Acting:
The acting in this film is horrible to say the least, Hope Davis(Ellen) looked the role of a crazy person but it didn’t save the movie any, I would say the only ok role here was Donal Logue(Joe) he played a very convincing asshole. The rest of the cast just fell way too short.
Gore:
This was a severely disappointing part of the movie, I mean I didn’t expect a lot but we basically get all off screen kills and a hint of slashing with a blade.
T & A:
None of that stuff here.
Directing:
David threw in a lot of sped up camera shots, the film looked really dark in a bad way to where you couldn’t see a lot of what was going on, it is also just all over the place and too much side stuff going on for a short flick.
Soundtrack:
We get some good opera type music and a big sounding score, too bad it was wasted on this film.
Final thoughts:
The Lodger is a pretty bad remake of a Hitchcock film from 1944, and although I haven’t seen that version I know it could not be worse. The setting was in California but it looked far from that. This flick had a lot going wrong for it with the acting, setting, and just overall bad plot I could not recommend this to anyone. I give it a 1/10.