The Girl from Monday
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Movie Reviews of The Girl from Monday
Movie Review: "The Word Becomes Flesh" ~ The Revolution Has Begun!
Summary: 3 Stars
'The Girl From Monday' offers a somber, thought-provoking glimpse of a possible future where "Consumer is King" and everything else, including mankind, is nothing more than a commodity. Earth has become a corporate run world and we are stock, or property that goes up or down in value based primarily on our sexual desirablity. Good sex enhances net value while failed copulation, or rejection causes de-valuation of personal worth and a decrease in buying power.
Jack (Bill Sage) who was once a prominent figure in the corporate structure has become a leader in the "counter-revolution." As he and fellow partisians fight the "Powers That Be" matters become more complicated when Jack falls in love with a co-worker (Sabrina Lloyd) and encounters an alien (played by the beautiful Brazilian model Tatiana Abracos) from a distant planet known as Monday. She has come to on Earth in search of a missing piece of her worlds "collective soul' which was stranded here a few years earlier. Her embodiment in human form is a process known as "the word becomes flesh."
Can corporate greed and massive group progamming be overcome by a few conscious, free-thinkers? And what role does this extra- terrestial culture have to play in the reclamation of mankind?
This is not a film that stands up well to alot of repeat viewings, but it's a worthwhile watch the first time. It's the perfect film to see with a group of deep thinkers who enjoy dissecting and interpretating cinema late into the night over a good cup of coffee, or glass of wine.
Movie Review: Some special effects please
Summary: 3 Stars
A bit cerebral, most viewers will likely need to watch it more than once to pick up the subtle nuances Hal Hartley likes to interject in his movies. Still, more or less an interesting story line that tickles the curiosity whether or not aliens from distant planets could live among us, and if they do/did, would the majority of us be able to recognize them? Being a fan of good special effects in scifi, the low budget character of this film almost ruined it for me; however, you can rely on the charisma/talent of Sabrina Lloyd here to raise it well into the realms of the watchable again.Movie Review: Dazed and Cunfused
Summary: 3 Stars
I had great expectations for this DVD when I ordered it. I was looking forward to seeing Sabrina Lloyd in something besides Sliders. This is a Sc-fi movie without a point. The story, based on sex having a monitory value was intriguing but flat. The story plodded along and was not that entertaining. If you are a Sabrina Lloyd fan it might make a good rental but not the type of movie you would watch more than once.Movie Review: WHAT WAS HAL THINKING?
Summary: 3 Stars
ALTHOUGH A HAL HARTLY FAN.... I DIDN'T GET IT ?
TOO DEEP OR OVER MY HEAD MAYBE? I JUST DIDNT LIKE IT AS MUCH AS HIS PAST WORKS! MAYBE SIFI JUST ISN'T HAL'S BAG?
Movie Review: Good ideas gone bad. Very, very bad.
Summary: 2 Stars
What an unfortunate film this is. Not just unfortunate because it's bad (which it is), but because it has the potential to be pretty good.
The idea behind the film is really intriguing, and could make for a great film. Here's how the Possible Films website describes it: "Hartley's newest digital feature invites us to consider a world where citizens are actually proud to be stock options whose market value goes up or down depending on their sexual activity. A world where having sex just because it feels good is against the law. A world where one's credit rating determines everything."
Doesn't that sound good? At least, potentially? Too bad it doesn't live up to that promise.
I mean, yeah, that's what the movie is about. But it's done in such a poor way that it just betrays the whole concept. It's hard to name what makes it such a bad movie, but it's something that persists throughout the film, not just any particular part. For starters, there's the omnipresent narration (always a bad sign), which gets repetitive fast and really doesn't add much to the story. Which is a little ironic, because I'm sure the story would be almost incomprehensible without it. Blame that part on the script, which is laden with cardboard characters, inconsistent plotting and clunky dialogue. Of course, bad dialogue can sometimes be saved by good actors...too bad there weren't any in evidence here. The actors who did show up universally delivered their lines with a leaden clumsiness that might even make a soap opera fan wince a little.
And then there's the filming style, which was trumped up so much in post-production that the style was a complete distraction from the substance of the film -- probably because there wasn't much substance there to be had. Jerky stop-and-go motion, interspersed with still frames, nonsensical transitions from color to black and white and back again...it's all there, the clear signs of a director who didn't have the vision to make a movie in the camera, and tried to save it in the digital editing suite. Suffice it to say, it didn't work.
I watched "The Girl from Monday" all the way through, because I kept hoping that there was something there that would salvage this really interesting idea from the land of bad movies. There almost was. About halfway through, one character receives a sentence for a crime she has committed: "Two years hard time...teaching high school." My wife and I had a good laugh; that was a genuinely funny, clever, and unexpected moment. Then the filmmakers had to go and ruin even that by explaining the sentence with more of that droning narration.
This is a movie that is more than the sum of its parts. Good idea plus bad writing plus bad acting plus bad directing equals a really, really, REALLY bad movie, the kind of movie you might expect to see late at night on a basic cable station...and even then, it'd probably be a bit disappointing.