Tuesday, May 12, 2015

The Divide

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A bomb explodes in a city, and a group of survivors are trapped within a basement shelter. Paranoia and aggression grows after they discover that soldiers are keeping them entrapped inside the basement.

This film was directed by Xavier Gens. The beginning of the film is kind of dramatically cheesy. Once, you've gotten past that there is a major plot convenience that kind of just appears and disappears as needed. The scientists that very rapidly create tunnels and experiment labs to entrap these survivors. Its also strange that they show such rapid signs of being contaminated so quickly. The soldier scientists where highly unnecessary. However, this film does showcase some great character development. They might begin as uninteresting, but the further they delve into madness the more interesting they become. There is a lot of sex and nudity in this film. There is violence, but not a ton of gore. There are also some great effects done with little effort. Lauren German played the role of Eva. She was a decent by creating the familiar innocent female lead. But there isn't anything pulling audiences to her performance.  Michael Eklund played the role of Bobby. His character transformation was amazing and disturbing. Milo Ventimiglia played the role of Josh. Another great transformation performance even if it was familiar. Michael Biehn played the role of Mickey. He was great at playing the asshole character. He leaves you wondering just how asshole is character is. Ivan Gonzalez played the role of Sam. He was a good supporting actor for German. However, until the end he is unnoticeable. Rosanna Arquette played the role of Marilyn. She was great at playing the emotionally broken and somewhat insane character. Ashton Holmes played the role of Adrien. He was a great supporting actor, but didn't do anything to stand out.

I give this film 3 out of 5 stars! It is a good horror survival story once you get past all the plot holes. The character development makes this film work.

This film can be found on DVD.

Answer to Last Blog: Actress Gretchen Lodge, Lovely Molly, starred in the film The Rangers.

Que: Director Xavier Gens and actor Ivan Gonzalez worked together on what other film project?

The ABC's of Death
Chimeres
The ABC's of Death 2
Frontier(s)

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