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Crosstalk

Australia 1982
produced by
Errol Sullivan, Ross Matthews (executive) for New South Wales Film Corporation
directed by Mark Egerton
starring Gary Day, Penny Downie, Brian McDermott, Peter Collingwood, Kim Deacon, John Ewart, Jill Foster, Judith Woodroffe
written by Mark Egerton, Linda Lane, additional material by Denis Whitburn, music by Chris Neal

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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While working on a revolutionary surveillance computer, Ed (Gary Day) has a car accident that leaves him paralized - which gives his business partners a good opportunity to put him under surveillance in a new appartment, as for some reason, they want him off the project. For some other reason though, they move Ed in with the surveillance computer he himself has developed, and he of course keeps on working on the thing. Eventually, business partner Whitehead (Brian McDermott) and another silent partner decide it's time to get rid of Ed, but they entrust Ed's former mentor Hollister (Peter Collingwood) with the task who not only fucks up the kill but manages to get killed himself instead ...

With the help of his computer, Ed has meanwhile found out that the upstairs neighbour Stollier (John Ewart) has killed his wife (Jill Forster), and now wants to investigate ... but since he's paralyzed, he needs help, and neither his wife (Penny Downie) nor his nurse (Kim Deacon) are all that keen on helping him.

What Ed doesn't know though is that Stollier is exactly the silent business partner who wants him killed, and since Hollister has bungled up things, he himself moves in for the kill with a poisonous syringe ... when he's shot dead by Whitehead, who has obviously changed sides and now wants to hook up with Ed - but then his brain is fried by Ed's computer which has long taken on a life of its own and has now decided it needs no humans no more to achieve his goals.

 

Basically, this is a retelling of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, but all of the old movie's charme is substituted by one of these new-fangled computer thingies (even though neither the scriptwriters nor the director seem to understand much about the subject matter). Plus, there is also an evil big business subplot that seems to come right out of an episode of Dallas regarding its subtlety. Sure, this combination is still able to give the audience some giggles (in all the wrong places), but as the serious sci fi-thriller it was intended to be, Crosstalk quite simply put misses pretty much all the marks: It's badly written, sloppily directed, lacks tension and suspense, and worst of all, it's dead boring.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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