
James Bamford appears to be gaining quite a reputation in the directing circles after years of stunt performing and directing, mostly for DC Comics TV series, ‘Hard Home’ Bamford’s fourth project set for release this year is already under intensive publicity. The reality of the matter is that out of this list of previously released works three Air Force One Down Jade Shadow Land were three out of bad ones.
Bamford is working on the screenplay by Mark Shea Price and other paragraphs on short movies such as The Mayans Were Right and Raised By Fish the backstory loves. It starts with Mary Simone Kessell Terra Nova Yellowjackets who is out for a run in the forest only to be approached by Andrew Howard True Memoirs of an International Assassin Bates Motel a Polaroid camera-wielding nutcase who seems to have some idea of an abandoned graveyard and chases her out there.
He ignores the sensation of being pepper-sprayed. But just seconds before he is about to kill her, she has the chance to stab him with a dose of a tranquilizer. After that, she drags him off to her Land Rover and drives off to a new and rather exquisite mansion that she constructed. She discovers that he is nicknamed Diablo and is on the list of the most wanted serial killers. Her daughter Kelly (Rosie Day, The Convent, Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon) is one of his already-located victims. But she does not ensure her home’s security just to be an ordinary occupant; instead, she goes beyond that and becomes a Jigsaw from the future.
The third act twist happens quite early just after we are introduced to the film where we behold a handsome professional killer having his fun time who happens to be the target of the police for many years only to be taken down by an amateur woman whom he happens to be able to find and also is good looking. Another cliché scenario is how a mother from hell gave birth to a psycho and then abused him to the degree that he grew up and became a serial killer who goes out to hunt down women who primarily go around being the victims. The feeling makes even more illogical sense to everything else that is wrong with a small girl woman who diplomatically prays for some sickness to invest her with and who would always until her life completely ends out of a Diablo being a drug-deprived wrench.
Nevertheless, the possible worst case is that Mary is not satisfied with just making him stay in her basement and mutilating him, just as what a psychologist horror movie i.e. 7 Days, 3: An Eye for an Eye or for that matter any of the sequels of I Spit on Your Grave might offer. Far from it, he has chosen to make his house a maze with hundreds of pages cut out from newspapers regarding his life story, some videos covering the same, and vicious, at the very least, traps. At this juncture, sе is positioned in a room with a multitude of televisions, around which she places an image of her abducted daughter in the middle of the room and is seated, and menaced as he uses an alarm that correlates his movement pictures throughout the room onto insensible shock points. Though she does not bear in her any ailment of psychopath nature as his being a serial killer, but surely she exhibits traits of numerous mental illnesses depression among them.
I suppose the film director was expecting a riveting movie, because sitting through Diablo and his criminal activity exhibits was not enjoyable for me, as it was way too tedious for my liking. The only thing that could’ve ticked me off is the idea that he’s a revolting figure because he was also a victim of maternal abuse, brutal even, considering the fact that some probably enjoy him in discomfort that kind of portrayal is so far-fetched it cannot even be taken seriously. And do not get me started on the abuse, if you wanted to see him suffering, yeah I’m sure it works for that, but for an entertainment piece it’s pretty bland.
Now, there is a section in the film where he does manage to smash a boulder into her contrived orbs, but the rest feels like a woman attending an NFL game, ‘Go, girl! Get that ball!’ So, I actively welcome meandering conversations before Spanish soccer stars manage to lick their wounds clean. That makes teetering to oblivion enjoyable for a second and if that somehow tickles then frolicking in slow motion feels delightful for hours. However, the whole abduction narrative combined with how Mary blun (Joseph Millson, Fyre Rises, Dragonheart Vengeance) his husband constantly leaves her, Claiming they did.
Next, we have Mary’s neighbor, Jiao (Daphne Cheung, Ashes, Spider-Man: Far from Home), whose involvement in the narrative feels both bland and obligatory, as if she were thrust into the tale in order to haul the script out of the disarray it has created for itself.
On the other hand, there is a much more generic Western problem of racism and classism which any viewer can easily apprehend. The film features a high-class white woman who must save American white women from a working illegal immigrant who is a serial killer, does that make sense? Unless the FBI agent who was assigned the job of finding this troublemaker is an agent who inspires so much confidence. The only other non-white character of the film Jiao who is so obnoxious in her role as a Karen that her 911 calls are self-imposed bans of her number. That needless to say, is the cherry on top of what is already a strong cake. And wow, such times we’re in: an obscene season of the year has started.
But, Hard Home is a work however not for those challenges, it would be good. After watching it I am not in the slightest bit surprised that the distributor sat on the reviewers of the screener until the release day, I find it a little incomprehensible why so at all when the film had long been splashed.
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