Red Lights
Directed by: Rodrigo Cortés
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Robert DeNiro, Cillian Murphy
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Rated: R
Year: 2012
Thoughts: Beware! Warning! This may contain spoilers!
Recently after watching In Time and Batman Begins, I was kinda in a Cillian Murphy mood. I love his acting and let's face it, I don't think he's that bad looking either. But, I found his new movie Red Lights and thought I'd try it. The movie was pretty good, despite never hearing about it before in theaters or commercials. The cast was pretty star studded, with the main four main characters being Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murpy, and Elizabeth Olsen.
The movie starts with a rather mild thriller scene, a seance. In this scene we see how the Dr. Matheson and Tom work together. The two characters work together to display frauds, in an attempt to find real supernatural powers, like telekinesis, a sixth sense, or psychics. The most interesting part is realizing all the tricks that the frauds use in order to act like they have these powers. The big challenge though is exposing Silver's fraudulence. Tom becomes obsessed with his work, and while he is a good partner to the Doctor, he disobeys and goes after Silver.
The movie uses cool techniques like floating and spoon bending. The most interesting thing is that because they are trying to investigate Silver, we as an audience are also attempting to figure out the Red Lights (what makes the people frauds). The back story of the characters are also kind of interesting, slowly revealing itself little by little. And at the end, the backstories of the characters all make sense and create a complete plot line of why certain things happen.
The one thing that kind of threw me of is that Tom is actually a psychic telekinetic, which is revealed at the very end. After watching the movie again, I could see how this is possible, but I didn't guess that at all during the movie.
The only part I thought was unnecessary was the fight scene in the bathroom. The whole film could have been fine without it, but I think the director thought it necessary to include some violence in the movie, since it was such a fierce competition between the two men. Honestly, the scene was pretty useless and kind of long for its minor role in the plot.
The movie starts with a rather mild thriller scene, a seance. In this scene we see how the Dr. Matheson and Tom work together. The two characters work together to display frauds, in an attempt to find real supernatural powers, like telekinesis, a sixth sense, or psychics. The most interesting part is realizing all the tricks that the frauds use in order to act like they have these powers. The big challenge though is exposing Silver's fraudulence. Tom becomes obsessed with his work, and while he is a good partner to the Doctor, he disobeys and goes after Silver.
The movie uses cool techniques like floating and spoon bending. The most interesting thing is that because they are trying to investigate Silver, we as an audience are also attempting to figure out the Red Lights (what makes the people frauds). The back story of the characters are also kind of interesting, slowly revealing itself little by little. And at the end, the backstories of the characters all make sense and create a complete plot line of why certain things happen.
The one thing that kind of threw me of is that Tom is actually a psychic telekinetic, which is revealed at the very end. After watching the movie again, I could see how this is possible, but I didn't guess that at all during the movie.
The only part I thought was unnecessary was the fight scene in the bathroom. The whole film could have been fine without it, but I think the director thought it necessary to include some violence in the movie, since it was such a fierce competition between the two men. Honestly, the scene was pretty useless and kind of long for its minor role in the plot.
Rating: 8/10
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