mbstraykatz
This film is not for your average film goer, in fact many people will hate it. Rather it speaks to lovers of cinema, the people who appreciate directors who are not afraid to make an intelligent journey into uncharted territory, and those who will enjoy it, will instantly love it; it has all the makings of a cult classic, it is dark, and brutally honest, forcing viewers to come face to face with their own insecurities. One thing which does detract from the story is the interrupted time-line jumping back and forth to the interrogation of Suki, and an ending which leaves the viewer with a feeling that it was added as an afterthought, which can be forgiven after having the privilege to experience the emotional journey on which this film takes the viewer. The casting could not have been more perfect and the characters easily play off of each other.
MrDeadMan esq
If you were to take the rough elements of Sucker Punch, the Cinematography of The Crow, the lighting from Saw 2, steal the sex scene from Fight Club and write a jumbled concept of a plot as conceived by an angsty, 16 year old alt-rocker girl after briefly perusing the Wikipedia entry for Dissociative Identity Disorder (which she is SO totally convinced she has), you'd have this unspectacular lump of a film. The movie is essentially a flashback bookended by the prologue and epilogue in current time. Suki (Katie Cassidy) is in police custody and being interviewed by a stock character detective (Michael Imperioli) and a criminal psychologist (Eliza Dushku) regarding the rash of apparent suicides in Juniper (nicknamed "jumper") towers, an unsupervised transitional living quarters for mostly rehabilitated mental patients. For some reason or another, Suki is being blamed for the recent suicides, which is why we assume the authorities are there in the first place. much later in the film, we see that ALL of the authorities are called to Juniper Towers right before the (anti) climactic showdown between two, well, electric super-psychos, but never mind continuity with this heap.....We learn that Suki has Dissociative identity Disorder and, despite this, has been released to this unsupervised, unregulated, derelict s**t-hole tenement tower apartment building, presumably occupied by 16 floors of psychos in various stages of devolution. Her prescription is to, um, hook a car battery up to her face and (this is a direct quote now) "burn her alters" out of her head, because... science? eventually, one of her alter egos frankensteins the machine to release her true self by the power of electrical engineering ex machina, but it's really too dumb to explain. whatever. she meets a very bland cast of characters who all have zero development and zero thought put into them other than this one is the "snake wearing, Egypt loving sex maniac" type of crazy and this one is "the wander around naked" kind of crazy... I think there's one other in the entire building and i'm pretty sure she wore bunny ears or something as lazy, but she has two lines and that's pretty much it. Suki is reunited with someone she met in the actual mental facility who is the only guy in the building (and as far as I saw, one of maybe 7 people total in the whole damn thing) and he takes it upon himself to be the local stud in the ranch. Much later, we meet his girlfriend who is the only other character with any sort of lines, so its not hard to deduce who the bad guy is in this bore fest and... you know what? I'm just done. this movie tried so hard to be cool and edgy but is just dumb, boring and ridiculous. What It Did Well: I'll admit, there was a lot of work put in to the scribbling on the walls and the general, derelict atmosphere of the building (however unrealistic it may have been). also, Michelle Trachtenberg all gothed up was good times for the 10 minutes of screen time she actually had. and there was some pointless nudity (sadly, not Michelle Trachtenberg).What It Failed At Doing: Everything. there wasn't much of a plot, or a point, or acting, or emotion, or characterization, or a premise, or research into the disorder Suki had, or in any kind of philosophy behind the nonsense and the special effects weren't that special. !!!!SPOILERS!!!!!So Wait....If Alice was killing these girls instead of them jumping to their deaths, she must've been doing it for a while, since the building was renamed Jumper Tower in response to the high jump rate. so why is she just reported missing from the institution 3/4 of the way through the movie? That means she's been missing for months and nobody noticed. Also, why are the cops investigating these suicides as murders and questioning Suki about them if they supposedly were only called roughly 15 movie minutes prior by the doctor and (sort of) Alice? And why are they only now investigating if these suicides have been going on for a while (presuming they in fact weren't there because of the phone call).the building is 16 stories tall and only 6 people live in the damn thing, all of whom are mental patient releases, with zero supervision, upkeep, care, help programs etc... I know I mentioned this before, but it bears repeating because of how head-slappingly stupid it is.So if the Scribbler needed the machine to get free, and the first time we see her, she is already defying gravity and other laws of physics, why did she need to the modify the machine to get stronger? she didn't seem to get any stronger than she already was... and are the machine's effects only temporary? the dog went back to normal, Hogan went back to normal, but the Scribbler stayed and Bad Alice stayed sort of as they were. Ugh. just do yourself a favor and watch Sucker Punch and The Ward instead.
Jerghal
The scribbler is another Graphic Novel adaptation to the big screen. I've never heard of it but maybe it's well known it that world. The movie's filled with B-actors like Michelle Trachtenberg, Michael Imperioli, Gina Gershon and even Sasha grey (1 shot!). Overall the acting is not bad but for a movie about split personalities you would expect to see some of these different persons but nope, the lead actres only plays her one character and the hidden Scibbler character turns out to be a superhero-like someone but it's all a bit weird and messy. I wouldn't recommend this film but if you do see it, it will only take 89 mins out of your life.
kosmasp
Can be deceiving or just what they are ... in this case, you have to decide what they are. Based on a comic (which I haven't read), this has a different approach to some things, though it still has a predictability to it. What makes it better than some other movies in that genre, is that it did manage to get a stellar cast. You do believe those people, especially the female lead.And while there is a lot of suspension of disbelief, it still is grounded in its themes. It's about loneliness, about life and death, things all have to face at one point or another. Which make the movie more accessible of course. Visually stunning with a few flaws, but if you like Science Fiction with a detective plot mixed into it, you'll like this
