Once in a great while, I look at a film that seems so well intentioned, I just want to give it to a high degree. Of course, movies can be a little underwhelming, not follow through with their starting point, or are downright boring, but the intentions of the game long the end result almost every movie, big or small, good or bad.
Camp X-Ray, debut in the art department on a regular basis, Peter Sattler, aim to tell the story of a strong moral controversial prison camp / prison in Guantanamo Bay. Although the setting is interesting enough, and the core of the dynamic between the military and the private one of the "prisoners" is a thoughtful one, Camp X-Ray is deep suffering
without knowing which way to go actually.
The film throws in the last Queen of Twilight, Kristen Stewart in the role of Pvt. Amy Cole, only to the military, whose job it is to the Camp X-Ray (lower part of the Guantanamo as I understand it) to guard transferred. Cole is rough soldier, whose determination and will to do good and to motivate and glare he signed him to the world. We quickly the world of Camp X-Ray, as well as the location and the film as a ticking clock accuracy and ultimately alarming. We meet some guy Cole guards / soldiers, including hard but seemingly fair Colonel Drummon and animal control panel. Ransdell. Both at the end, the worse, or to see the role of sexist soldiers, soldiers of women as sex objects, and. This may indeed worked to give the film a more authentic feel, both characters feel so one-dimensional that it is difficult to take seriously.
Two soldiers are part of a much larger problem that I had while watching was the Camp X-Ray, to know the obvious, what it wants to be.
The film is just a prison movie, a military film, a commentary on sexism in the military, develop a friendship story, and about five or six other other plot threads. It is not a film should not shoot a lot of subjects, but choose to focus on is essential, otherwise you'll get them all competing for attention. It is unfortunate, Sattler, subtlety is not his forte, and the amount of heavy blatant tactic begins to wear you until the end of the year. For example, we are constantly subjected to things like the launch on September 11 and reminds us why Guantanamo Bay there first. The whole film is developed the friendship between Amy Cole, and the prisoner Amir Ali, who plays a wonderful Peyman Moadi (separation). Truly, I do not buy their friendship at the beginning. It would be hard for me to personally connect with someone who threw feces me when we first met. Maybe it's because they were locked in this location so long together, that you are obliged to limited people to tie around you.
Now these are scenes between Ali and Cole are definitely the highlight of the film, and even friendship not a ton of sense of the beginning
of the discussions and sheer make an impressive and Stewart and Moaadi is inspired on the back. I've never been a big fan of Stewart and his typical scowl, but here they seem to be the miracle of peace and almost boring Amy Cole. It is not that he caught not a very interesting person, but his life by such tick tock routine, the film makes you feel easy, and its mechanical. Moaadi is perfectly cast, though his character comes from a small standard. Amir is instructive, but rambunctious, but dedicated to the blind (as Cole), and at the end, just a man.
At the end of Camp X-Ray, we have worked very well, but the melodramatic scene in which the two stars are facing a kind of life and death situation. I do not spoil, but it is not difficult to predict at all. Which brings me back to the idea that the film simply do not mix, despite all its well-conceived plot points. I never really took what the director was trying to say. Perhaps the fact that Guantanamo is a bad place that does not serve any real purpose other than to act as a safe to protect against suspected terrorists? Well, most of us already knew. Is the movie the role of women in the military and the hardships they face? Could be, but it does not go far enough in the real problems of women in the military face daily as Invisible War to go. Maybe it's about the power of friendship and how they come in all shapes and sizes? Something we've seen so far, and better. In the final moments, it is just fine film to hit the moon, and the only end up breaking the mood. Sattler has good instincts and directing the actors perform well, but I just can not bring myself to really recommend this film to people. DVD rental at best, I do not want to rush to the theaters and pay top dollar for it!
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