Powder Blue (2008)
Summary
Genre: DramaGoodies:
+ The cast is good, but not the acting, + They tried...?Baddies:
- Failure at interconnecting stories in an interesting way, - Great actors that partake in a terrible filmFour Los Angelenos — a mortician, an ex-con, a suicidal ex-priest, and a stripper — are brought together on Christmas Eve by a mixture of circumstances.
Powder Blue was a bad film, period. It had little to no redeeming qualities about it. I normally love the whole “intersecting stories” layout for a film (i.e. Crash, Magnolia), but this was was all over the place. The overlaps were seemingly picked at random, and none of the characters were people who I cared about. Also, there is a difference between uncovering secrets in a plot, and revealing the plot at a terrible pace (for example, Ray Liotta’s character kept going to the hospital to visit the boy, but you are unsure of why he is there, but they throw this at your early on and you just left with it for the entire film until an unclimatic resolve). The characters is really where the film falls apart (/acting) – I don’t mind any of the actors in this film, but I thought they all gave terrible performances, as if this was a weekend project that they were guilted into doing. One of the whole plots is a character trying to kill himself, but it was annoying to spend that much time on a guy who could have found someone to do what he wanted to do. Pacing, plot, characters were all thrown together – and once again they used the “weather pattern/oddity falling from the sky – Â to show signs of rebirth” at the end of the film, a very poor carbon copy.
