Surveillance 24/7

A clever thriller with complex storytelling
In response to another reviewer: The Making Of on the DVD makes it clear that the story took years to be developped, and so YouTube didn't exist at that time (it was created in 2005).
This is not a pop-corn movie, but an entertaining What If? story with a believable development, and a lot of twists and turns. I thought the storytelling was rather intelligent, I'll certainly watch this film again to catch what I missed the first time. The actors were all uniformely very good, with the gay aspect of the story mixed into the plot in what felt as a very natural way. We have few thrillers with gay characters as leads, and this one is definitely a keeper.

Fun to watch, but don't think too hard about it
The thing about plot-driven movies is that they have to have a tight plot, which this doesn't.

It's fun to watch. It does a very good job of being very matter-of-fact about the lead character's gayness. The movie isn't about "being gay", but it is central to the story, which is nice if you like gay flicks.

The editing is fun and creative, and the characters are fun to watch. Pretty boys, pretty girls, fun accents, good actors, nice lighting. Music was OK, but not particularly wonderful, and sometimes it was intrusive or not quite right. It seemed pensive sometimes - think piano bar and violin - and this wasn't a pensive movie.

This might be a spoiler alert here:

But the key part of the story is this cell phone, and everybody's looking for it, but the thing is, this movie is about constant surveillance, but no one thinks to triangulate on the cell phone? And the ending twister makes the whole movie totally stupid. At the end, what was the...

Young actors doing a great job!
I wished Americans learned how to do good movies with young actors the way the British do. Let them speak!

Click to Editorial Reviews