Гонка со временем (The Desperate Hour)

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In a small Canadian town, a mother leaves the house and sets off on a jog while music from her smartphone plays in her ear. On the way, she is passed by several police cars. As she enters the middle of the woods, she receives a call and learns that there has been a mass shooting at her son's school. Desperate, she tries to call a cab so she can get to the scene and check on her son.

 

This thriller by the master of suspense Phillip Noyce depicts events entirely from the mother's perspective. It has several false leads and other twists in store as the plot unfolds, with the cell phone serving as a dramaturgical catalyst. Lead actress Naomi Watts, who also served as the film’s producer, carries the film with a veritable tour de force of acting from the first minute to the last.

The Playlist — D

Naomi Watts Races Against Time and Tedium in Dull Thriller

LAKEWOOD: This has a solid premise - Naomi Watts has to find a way to get to her son during a school shooting - but it’s so overblown with constant dramatic music and goofy Dutch angles that the entire thing sinks.

LAKEWOOD: Naomi Watts gives a physically & emotionally grueling tour-de-force performance in this gripping, intense, edge-of-your-seat Hitchcockian thriller directed with energetic gusto by Phillip Noyce! It’s a one-woman show & Watts gives it her all, and then some!

The latest Naomi Watts thriller Lakewood is another one person on screen story that feels done to death both in subject matter and presentation. Currently no US distributor. Grade C

The Playlist — D

Naomi Watts Races Against Time and Tedium in Dull Thriller

LAKEWOOD: This has a solid premise - Naomi Watts has to find a way to get to her son during a school shooting - but it’s so overblown with constant dramatic music and goofy Dutch angles that the entire thing sinks.

LAKEWOOD: Naomi Watts gives a physically & emotionally grueling tour-de-force performance in this gripping, intense, edge-of-your-seat Hitchcockian thriller directed with energetic gusto by Phillip Noyce! It’s a one-woman show & Watts gives it her all, and then some!

The latest Naomi Watts thriller Lakewood is another one person on screen story that feels done to death both in subject matter and presentation. Currently no US distributor. Grade C

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Fresh 4

Rotten 19

Metascore 35 после 11 рецензий

Phillip Noyce: “They Don’t Make The Kind Of Action Thrillers I Like To Make Anymore”

When it comes to action movies rallying at the box office, Phillip Noyce knows what works, and his resume is counts a plethora including the Angelina Jolie spy movie Salt, and the Tom Clancy movies Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. But with Lakewood, he’s gone outside the studio system to make a tight-female driven thriller about a mother, stranded on a walk path, who has just learned that an active lockdown is taking place at her son’s high school.

 

“They don’t make the kind of action thrillers, I like to make anymore; they’re all tentpole movies,” says Noyce who was at our TIFF studio; Lakewood making its world premiere at the festival.

 

Lakewood producer Zach Schiller calls Lakewood “risky material to finance,” hence the project’s path outside the studio system.

 

Chris Sparling knows something about crafting down-the-minute, nailbiters having written the Ryan Reynolds movie Buried about a truck driver who is buried alive in a coffin in Iraq with only a lighter and cell phone at his disposable. Sparling sought to take a sensitive take in his suspense, given how school shootings have become all too common in many suburban families’ lives.

 

Says the screenwriter about Naomi Watt’s character, “She had but no choice but to go toward the school. It was just herself and the phone. For better or worse, that’s our world know. So, what you get from that is that you have all this information, but some of that information isn’t helpful because it isn’t accurate.”

Сознательно потратил время на перемотке, чтобы удостовериться, что срань) Весь, если его можно так назвать, фильм о том, что тетка бежит по лесу и не может узнать че с ее сыном во время стрельбы в школе, которого мы видели около 2 секунд и на которого нам, как зрителю, вообще наплевать. И собсно вот и весь сюжет. Гонки со временем как таковой нет, что она на месте стояла бы, ниче не поменялось бы ваще. И вместо того чтобы быстро пробежать обратно до дома и доехать куда там ей надо, она пускается в 2 часовой бег по куширям, чуть там не разбившись пару раз, кек, и зачем-то названивая всем подряд. Что там детектив ей лично во время стрельбы и проведения операции отчитывался и какой-то хер с мастерской номера за просто так пробил вообще ор :lol:

Жалко, что Уоттс в таком снимается.