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The Evading
USA 2007
produced by Rick L. Winters for Annodam
directed by Rick L. Winters
starring Eric Stevens, Olivia Alsept-Ellis, Brittany Quist, Jason Adkins, Patrick Mackay, D'Angelo Midili, Jonathan Reis, Scott Carter, George Dunn, Renee Gilbert, Akbar Kedear, Dixi Lee, Eric Riedmann, Darlene Sellers, Clint Tibbits, Hilary Mawindi, Willis Tushkahoma, Danette Meline, Robert Northwick, Gary Watson, Mara Steve, Kathleen McKenzie, Bob Bishop, Bob Bishop III, Ricky Leroy Bodkin
written by Rick L. Winters, music by Wayne Tapia
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Ever since the death of his wife, Josh (Eric Stevens) has been seeing
weird shapes fluttering about, shapes that sometimes manifest themselves
as hooded creatures. Now he knows himself how weird that sounds, so it's
all the more surprising when he learns his boss (Patrick Mackay) and his
lovely colleague Karla (Olivia Alsept-Ellis) see these shapes as well, and
they are actually part of a secret society fighting these shapes, which
are trying to take over the world - or something. One of their society
though, Goliath (Jason Adkins), is a traitor, and he kills all the
others in the society, including Karla, Josh and disturbed little Mary
(Brittany Quist) - which is when Josh's memory about the death of his wife
begins to change, as now Mary is his daughter, and he himself caused the
accident his wife and Mary died in, and above all, he's a heroin-addict
... and it seems this memory is the real deal, since he is currently in
rehab, sees all sorts of things, and might remain here for a looong
stretch ... A film that's part paranoia cinema and part drug
movie that tries desperately to be clever - and quite simply fails. And
the main fault of the film, apart from its trendy, flashy and utterly
empty music video-like direction, is its total disregard of narrative
build-up: Almost the whole film seems like a (rather boring) setup for
some pseudo-intelligent story about the fight between good and evil, and
once it finally seems to get interesting, we learn that everything was
just a drug-induced fantasy - which is nothing else but a major
disappointment, and it also derives the central plottwist and punchline of
the film (that nothing that happened previously was real) of most of its
effect. Not worth your time and money.
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