Submitted by AJ Garcia on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 8:00AM
Title: Columbus Circle Genre: Suspense Starring: Selma Blair, Amy Smart, Giovanni Ribisi, Beau Bridges, Jason Lee Director: George Gallo Studio: Universal Studios Runtime: 86 minutes Release Date: March 6, 2012 Format: BLU-RAY Discs: 1 MPAA Rating: Rating: ( )Grade: D+ Trivia: Giovanni Ribisi and Kevin Pollak were previously in George Gallo's earlier movie Middle Men. ~ IMDB I caught a trailer for Columbus Circle about a week before it landed in my work pile and I thought that the film looked like it could be an excellent thriller. A missing heiress named Abigail Clayton (Selma Blair), who has been an agoraphobic shut in and hasn’t been seen by anyone in the apartment building for years, gets new neighbors, one of which turns out to be an abusive husband (Jason Lee). One day Abigail hears her neighbors fighting and finds the woman (Amy Smart) laying beaten in the hallway. Deciding to get involved Abigail rescues the woman which sets off a string of events that puts her life in danger. Despite how awesome the trailer was the film fails in several ways. At first it’s a very promising opening and then before the film even hit’s the halfway mark (not that you hadn’t already guessed what was going on) the film opens up it’s reveal, a bit too soon if you ask me. From then on in it’s a cliché of thriller devices that are poorly executed and badly acted by the entirety of the cast. Selma Blair can’t seem to decide how to emote her character, Jason Lee is at best a non-character, and Amy Smart manages to give her character just a little life before screwing it all up in the back end of the film. The only real convincing characters in the entire film are Giovanni Ribisi and Beau Bridges, possibly because their roles are so limited. In the end though it just seemed like someone took a really solid idea, started writing it, then gave up and just wrote anything. Sadly it could have been great. PICTURE QUALITY: Audio is at least decent. Despite Blair attempting to make her character the shy quiet (too quiet) type by mumbling around with her words dialogue is captured pretty well. There are some interesting moments on the disc where immersion occurs (broken glass scattering across the floor), but for the most part your getting the basic quality surround sound. BONUS FEATURES: Pictures: |
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