Treed Murray

2001
7.2| 1h30m| en
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An advertising executive, trapped in a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, manipulates them into fighting to save his life.

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Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
rgcustomer This film is chock full o' cliché.You have the black teen robber, the young female whore, the businessman with a secret, the white boy wannabe thug. It never ends.Once Murray is chased up a tree by the robbers, it's scripted and shot pretty much like a stage play, with each side patiently waiting turn to say its oh-so-clever piece.There is no realism, and no tension. Not one of these characters feels real, and so we don't really care what happens to any of them in the end. Frankly, the Ravens should have been allowed to clean up. I mean, they walk right past with a severed head (what was that all about?) and you're NOT going to use them? But of course, in the end, you have the injured angel, the weeping whore, the coward runs away, etc. etc. Lessons learned. Mission accomplished. Yawn.And, of course, the credits say it was funded by pretty much every Canadian funding agency in existence. I can't even remember them all. Canada, Ontario, Television, Film, various channels (even beyond the usual), and so on. For all that, we deserve better.
yak-yak This is really one of those hidden gems of a movie. The plot is so simple: An executive type gets trapped in a tree by a group of young hoods. It's all psychological stuff, virtually zero dollars spent on set design and such, because it's just a park. The acting by all of the main characters is quite solid, especially that of the group leader. A bit of excess drama at one point with scary people doing scary things, but it wasn't too overdone. They got the point across anyway.This is really worth renting. It's not action-packed, but it's going to keep you watching until it's over.8/10
jpeahs After watching this movie, I came here expecting it to get a rating somewhere under 3. I was astonished seeing the 8, and more astonished reading the reviews. This movie was just plain awful, the characters weren't very believable if you ask me. I thought the funniest part was at the end when that guy(I didn't bother remembering the names) went to get his grandfathers gun from the garage, real tough gang there. Then the part where they were cheering Murray and the cop just went away, ugh. FJOEWIJGROIJG is the only way I can describe it, I'm just in awe at the high rating from IMDB voters.
ajs-1 While this movie seems to revolve around characters and situations that are cliche and perhaps more based on American media archetypes than reality, Treed Murray nevertheless turns out to be a thought-provoking examination of issues relevant to today's times.Growing up watching the TV series Degrassi Junior High, we always used to joke that for a show noted for its "reality" they sure did a remarkable job of overlaying every possible teen calamity on a very small group of characters. This movie can be accused of a similar projection. However, perhaps in 90 minutes of film this sort of license may be not only allowable, but necessary.Overall, this is a very worthwhile, entertaining and interesting film, that manages to stand quite apart from those movies from which its characters have been lifted.