Exposed

If you'd like a little excrs for your brain and a little mysterious movie genre, maybe you'll like this movie. Strongly recommend for you, But if you want something entertain, laugher, romance, action or lasers, then this isn't a movie to enjoyed, Sit back and open your mind widely for a little journey trough the time line and a story, The story tells about one girl named Isabel, who lived in the Big Apple, New York and a police officer Scott who trying to investigate murder case, Two different stories about life's, and perspective comes in deep dark journey...

The "popular" rating system on movies is something that lets me down from time to time. This movie was an excellent use of my time. Very thought provoking, never one single dull moment. I am so glad I didn't look at the reviews otherwise, I might not have watched it. Seems to me that most of the people who rate movie ratings are comparable to top 40 music music. Menu did an excellent job and I totally see why he took this role. Great movie! I will let you know that is it a crime drama. No shootouts or explosions or and stunt men required. The director of this film introduces a new style of story telling that I have seen before. Would watch it again. Bravo.

There seems to be very little love for this movie. I'm one of those who's glad I went in knowing nothing about it. I'm neither a fan nor a detractor of Keanu Reeves. I've seen a few of his movies, and I've yet to see him give a bad performance. He's a subtle actor who doesn't ever grandstand. The other lead in this movie, Ana de Armas, is a revelation. But what kept me watching was the superb cinematography by Trevor Forrest. I was expecting to see a B-movie - instead, I saw a polished work of film art. So, it's odd to read that this is the re-edit disowned by the director. Since the end of the movie came as a real surprise to me, if the original cut is ever released, it won't have the same impact, unfortunately. It's easy to ridicule a film like this because it takes so many chances. It's not perfect, by any means, and the story of one character, at least, is rather unresolved. I've seen about four thousand films in the past ten or eleven years, so I'm quite picky because jaded by seeing the same old formulaic dross trotted out again and again. But I live in hope! This is not dross. This is good cinema. See it!

"Exposed" is flawed, but has interesting elements. The film was originally titled "Daughter of God," directed by first-time director Gee Malik Linton. The original production was reportedly surreal, very political and multi-cultural. But financing fell through and the producers turned to Lionsgate, who invested in what they thought was a thriller centered on Keanu Reeve's character. The studio didn't feel the original film held broad audience appeal and re-cut it to conform to the film they thought they had invested in. Subsequently, Linton disavowed the film and sued to have his name removed from his only theatrical credit. The final result reflects the production's uneven genesis. There are two story lines, one in Spanish with subtitles and another in English, which interweave and ultimately merge. Two other story lines seem a bit disjointed and incomplete, presumably due to wholesale cuts. The story lines share a common theme concerning reluctance to pursue the truth for fear of the consequences. One character was severely traumatized by a childhood experience. Current events conspire to push this character over the edge, compelling a response to the inner turmoil. Another character seeks to uncover the truth about a friend who was not the person he thought and who had secrets he would rather not have learned. There are also a few surrealistic events that don't make much sense, but may have made more sense in the original version. And an individual's death leads to unexpected consequences. The underlying whodunit is intriguing with some satisfying twists. The truncated subplots provide ample red herrings, although they aren't entirely satisfying. If the film had been shot as detective story, the writer and director would have taken markedly different approaches. What we have is a bit of a hodgepodge that affords glimpses of the story that it might have been. If the director and writer had concentrated on the mystery rather than the social commentary, they would have had a much better film. Having not seen the original film, I cannot comment on how effective it was as a social commentary, although it reportedly received generally favorable reviews from the preview audiences.

I saw this film last night, knowing full well that reviewers slaughtered this work. I watched it late at night, and did not fall asleep, which is often the case with T V package film channel offerings. There is a tale being told here, but it is far from clear just what is going on, yet I kept watching, with more and more interest. Rather than spoil everything by telling the pessimist what happens, I suggest you take a risk, and watch the film. The ending does make a lot more sense than a heck of a lot of other films that I have seen in the past year, so I refuse to join the queue of sceptics. To say the acting is rubbish ( 1 reviewer ) I beg to disagree here, and the script does help just a little more in explaining things towards the end of the film.