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A hamfest

posted a year ago by jriley555 (8215)
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This film totally underwhelmed me. Funny thing about reviews, they ranged from 1.5/4 to 4.5/5. Most reviewers seemed to rate this a lot more approvingly than I did.

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Why did 'Bob' shoot die frau ? He said 'I had to'. That made no sense to me. We never even find out if a. she was in fact a spy, or b. she did in fact kill Susan. What a botched up narrative.

They were also far too old to be players in the recently-ended war. An odd presentation, all around.

[–] darb112 (95) a year ago

I mostly agree. If the ending came together more satisfyingly, I would have been happy with the movie for the most part. My 2 major complaints was it was to repetitive. They kept repeating the same items over and over and it was just too much....at some point, it just seemed like they were filling time. Secondly, like you noted above...why did bob kill her? I believe they were trying to make it look like he had been pushed to the brink and had to get out of the room any way he could, BUT it wasn't believable at the instance, that bob had been pushed that far to murder someone. They also tried to relate it to the deaths of the kids in Germany...that anyone could be pushed beyond the brink. I didn't buy it. Concerning their age, I agree also and was thinking that the entire movie. The odd thing is Jeremy Holm who played Stanton looks younger in real life, so they made him look older for the movie. Very odd.

The director does have a great movie out in 2015 called "We are still here". I highly recommend it. I've been following his work since that movie and believe he has the potential to become great.