RipDelight
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Tayyab Torres
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Zlatica
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Chrysanthepop
Jonathan Dueck's 'Final Draft' doesn't show us much what we haven't already seen before. The director tries to make it mysterious, suspenseful and ambiguous but not much happens until the last half hour. Darryn Lucio writes and costars. While the premise is interesting, the pacing is at fault. It takes almost an entire hour for the story to take off. 'Final Draft' seems to take much of its inspiration from Stephen King's 'It' and 'Secret Window'. Even though it's made within a small budget, it' quite well-made and the visuals in the last half hour are quite well done. The dark and gloomy atmosphere is The characterization was quite clichéd and that makes the situations less interesting. James Van Der Beek turns in a decent performance as the tormented writer suffering from writer's block and fighting his past but the rest of the cast is uninteresting. So, there is nothing refreshing about 'Final Draft'. It's painfully slow, clichéd and tries too hard while failing.
chazilla
If you've watched any number of horror/suspense/thriller movies and have an IQ above 4, you will be able to predict the end of this poorly-written, cliché-ridden, moth-bitten rehash of "tortured writer" stories within the first 10 minutes. Poorly-sketched characters and non-sequitur scenes (adult bully punching teenager, baseball through window) to pad out to 90 minutes do not a good movie make.Traumatic childhood clown experience - check.Embarrassed publicly by high school bully - check.Dead sibling you feel guilty about - check.Failed marriage - check.Protagonist's fate - take a guess...Last (and possibly least):Cliché "surprize" epilogue/"fade to black" scene - check.This movie was obviously done on a shoestring budget, but they could have invested *some* part of that budget on a script.The worst thing a "thriller" can be is boring. I only kept watching this snooze-fest because I thought: "This HAS to get better." To err is human...I'd only recommend this movie to insomniacs who don't have access to a warm glass of milk.
jakburton76
Don't be fooled by the cover i originally thought yes this looks like a horror movie similar to stephen kings IT the killer clown, It couldn't be any further away from it. Starts off with the main character(a writer) having strange dreams about a clown.He then decides that he must write a new book about a clown who burns to death during one of his acts and the audience laughing instead of helping , this clown then exacts revenge on the audience who laughed at him. In helping with him build his characters for this script he imagines that the victims are former friends or people he knew previously, as the only friend he seems to have now is his actor friend David. It's obviously done on a shoestring budget and how they manage to stretch it out for the 90 mins is beyond me, i would be falling asleep actually filming this never mind watching the movie finished, its just not eventful enough you don't get to know the characters enough, i wouldn't recommend this to anyone and i certainly don't think i could sit through it again...
reeves2002
I saw a trailer for this movie and was looking forward to seeing it.I really liked James Van Der Beek in the movie called "the plague". Final draft starts off with his character having a weird nightmare and then starts off pretty normal from there until he starts to encounter strange people.There are not many characters in this film but it was still well acted.James plays Paul, a lonely writer who seems to only have 1 friend and a past that we see clips of through his home videos.He is determined to write a screenplay and locks himself in his apartment to write a story from his childhood about a clown who gets set on fire and dies on stage during a performance as some kids are laughing at him as he perishes in the flames.The clown then comes back from the dead to get revenge on the now grown up kids.Paul and his brother were at the show as kids.It has troubled him ever since and he is haunted by thoughts of the kids laughing at him dying being the last thing the clown saw before he died.He is seeing spooky visions of the clown and the people around him are being terrorized mysteriously.Cabin fever sets in and he is living bad dreams.It is hard to distinguish between reality and fiction in this movie, and is a little confusing because there were so many flashbacks in his head happening all at once without much detail or explanation.The characters were a bit undeveloped but it was still a decent movie that makes you think.
