Wednesday, April 29, 2015

The Lazarus Project

Paul Walker

This film gave me the sense that screenwriters must be running out of viable ideas. The premise here was implausible enough to edge toward idiotic. A 'family man,' habitual criminal gets involved in a heist that goes wrong, people die, he is convicted and executed. But that's not the end.

He is somehow revived, sent to Oregon to live and work in a mental hospital, where he is forbidden to leave or contact his wife and daughter.

Major effort to inject mysterioso into ordinary behavior...funny sounds coming from the woods, people slipping by just out of sight...creepoid music. But it all came across as contrived nonsense. I found it impossible to care about any of this.

3

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