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| Articles about Delusion |
| | Delusion. Carl Colpaert. | | 2007-05-14 21:26:28 | |
Delusion opens poorly. It opens like an independent film (not a Miramax release or a Fox Searchlight, but something a guy who owns a chain of car washes invested in) and it opens poorly, like most independent films open. The acting is bad, the writing is bad (the direction is fine). I've seen Delusion before (I own the laserdisc), probably four times and the opening had me embarrassed. Based on those first seven or eight minutes, I would have said Jim Metzler was bad and Jennifer Rubin was bad, and Kyle Secor was good. Secor's got a really goofy, dumb hit man role and then, at times, the character will all of a sudden have some profoundly affecting moment.
Anyway, by the fifteen-minute mark, Delusion's completely different. Rubin's great, Metzler's great and the writing's good. There's no distinguishable reason for the change, except maybe the first act ended or something. Then for an hour, the film's on track toward something, with all goodness along the way. Where it's goi... | | By: The Stop Button | | |
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