“He seemed like such a nice guy.. He pretty much kept to himself…”
Directed by: Frank A. Cappello Bob Maconel (Slater) plays a stressed office worker, who wants to take his revenge one step closer than most of us ever dream of, and carries a gun to work every day. His carefully planned shoot up of the office is ruined though, when another colleague beats him to it and shoots everyone.When he realises that his colleague has shot the girl of his dreams, Venessa Parks (Elisha Cuthbert), and is about the finish the job, Maconel suddenly becomes the hero by killing his colleague to save Parks life.His boss, Gene Shelby (Macy), promotes him to a high position in the company, Maconel starts dating and looking after Parks as she is now paralyzed.
But everything is not all as it seems….
When I was watching the film, I was not sure what to expect, but I became instantly hooked from the first few minutes . The film is apparently suppose to be a Comedy, but I didnt get that, there were some funny moments in the film, such as the fish, but I would class this more as a psychological thriller as you know something is going to happen, you know something isnt quite right, and it keeps leaving little teasers throughout the movie, that make you question even more “What the hell is going on? What is going to happen? Is this all just in his head?”.
The quality of acting was superb, Slater really gets into the mindset of his character and kept the “shy and not quite right in the head” personality going at top notch throughout the whole movie. Parks plays the role well as a “beautiful and succesful woman” turned “quadriplegic in a heartbeat”, and because of this situation she is in, her personality changes often, going from “really sweet and nice” to “really mean and horrible”. Macy plays the boss of the company where all this happened, and just like in Fargo, he plays someone who is trying to look innocent but is hiding a lot of the truth. (What is that? I hear you say… Well, you will just have to watch the film).
Oh yeah, and there is some interesting camera work aswell.
All in all, I will give this film a good 8 out of 10. The acting was brilliant and the psychological weirdness was to me, what made the film so good.
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