Marc B. Wrote:I just saw this last night and I want to know if anyone else has seen it and, if so, what you thought?
As always Johnny Depp was amazing as was Turturro (sic?). It was well paced and had some good scares and psychological tension in it. My big problem was the ending.
The thing most annoying was the twist. Yeah, okay, Depp is crazy but you sort of pick up on this throughout the film. But it was when his ex-wife (or soon-to-be) comes to the cabin and sees "Shooter" written on everything. Okay... cool... Shooter, shoot her... all good... but then why in the hell does he come at her with a pair of scissors??? It should have been a gun and we know he was one. His agent/bodyguard even makes mention of it at one point ("pull out your six-shooter"). I've never read the novella so I don't know how accurate this was but that was my biggest disappointment with the film.
Thoughts?
The twist as you say wasn't really a twist at all. Even in the way it was portrayed was unoriginal- the technique first demonstrated to ample effect in A Beautiful Mind.
Depp is very good at creating a character's inner feelings, disappearing into the character's skin as it were and he makes you forget who he is. Your focus is on him.
It would have been far better if Timothy Hutton was more central to the film. That would have been a neat touch since Hutton starred long ago in King's The Dark Half. An inside joke as it were.
So much of the film was derivative with signposts so obvious rendering the film an excerise in okayness. I have not read the novella but the film was rather disappointing as far as a King novella was concerned. Still it was
tolerable in a way Dreamcatcher wasn't.