The Plot of Heartless:
Talented photographer Jamie Morgan (played by Jim Sturgess) has an eye for photography as well as having a heart shaped birthmark on his eye. Having this mark has made Jamie a very shy to the point he has no friends and has never had a girlfriend. After getting some photos of a unknown figure in a building that wasn’t there before, Jamie goes to investigate. While looking around he runs into a gang of hooded guys that are making animal like sounds and look very similar to lizards. Shortly after that encounter, Jamie has another one with the lizard like gang that sends him to meet Papa B (played by Joseph Mawle) who tells Jamie that he can make that birthmark go away but there is a price. Though when Jamie meets Tia (Clemence Poesy) Jamie does not want to pay the price of having his birthmark cleared for him. But now that Jamie is on this dark road, having a change of mind might just get him into more trouble than he was expecting.

My Thoughts on Heartless:
Not good I must say and I was hoping that it would be from the way the back of the DVD case makes the movie sound. Here is a guy that takes photos that runs into a bunch of lizard guys who work for some demon and now a deal has been made to make Jamie get what he has always wanted, a normal life. Only then the plan goes all to hell and the main characters world falls apart around him.
Here ‘Heartless’ has a good plot, even has a cast full of actors that are decent enough, and what looks to be a good start to a nice thriller.

Only problem is that it all looks good on paper and then outcome of the movie is nothing like what it’s made to seem to be. It’s way too long of a movie that makes it boring to watch, even with a good job of acting skills that Jim Sturgess does with the character of Jamie Morgan. I was really impressed with his range for this character who has a rough life of being an outcast then turning into a man who has no care in the world to having to show how his world is ending. It’s a wide range of emotions that Jim Sturgess has to show in this movie and he is shown in the majority of the movie with little support from the other actors.

I did find it kind of odd how little screen time the other actors are given in ‘Heartless’. Clemence Poesy seems to be on screen for just a few scenes, and even less time for the other actors who seem to get only minutes of screen time. Though each of the all do a good job of acting, with the exception of Joseph Mawle who I just didn’t like his portrayal of the character Papa B.

What makes me not like this movie even with a good idea of a story and the acting being good, is the flow of the action and the length of the movie. It takes way too long to get the main topic developed and by the time I knew what all was going on I was bored. I just couldn’t get interested in the movie at all no matter how much I wanted to be. There’s some decent cinematography used in ‘Heartless’ that gives the film a nice suspenseful feel to it. Even with the gruesome scene of the death I was feeling it was too little way too late for it to make  difference to the movie.