Wired Shut

Wired Shut

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This was a better thriller than I thought it would be. Assuming from the description I thought it would just be another man alone in the house gets robbed movie, but no it was more whilst also being a bit of that. The fact of there only being three cast members helped me see each performance and learn who those characters were easier. Getting near the end of the film it almost turned into an expressive art piece of sorts with emmys boyfriend going into what seemed like madness. Altogether a pretty good thriller.

2021 horror. When will I ever learn? Step 1: Populate your movie with unlikeable, no, despicable characters. Check. Step 2: Make it a home invasion thriller, with a tinge... No, never mind that, have it beat you over the head with familiarity. Oh, today's audiences love familiarity. Like, where have I seen this? I don't know, maybe in about 1000 other home invasion thrillers made in the last 10-15 years. Step 3: Hey, slow burns are in. Make it agonizingly slow, with as little going on content-wise, that you can spend minimal effort on a script (an amazing accomplishment: They stretch this thing out to a full 91 minutes!). Step 4: Cash paycheck (where applicable). Oh man. Where are all these twists and turns coming from, that the high-scoring reviews are referring to? This is an incredibly linear story. Anything that might qualify as a twist, you can see coming from miles away. Gee, I wonder at what point he's going to pull that wired jaw apart? What could his estranged daughter -- who hates him -- possibly be up to? Enter total psycho. Literally, the only thing that surprised me in this movie was something so idiotic, it blindsided me with exactly how ineptly the character was written. Dumbest ending you'll see all year. The story. Awful alcoholic dad, who happens to be an incredibly unoriginal and uncreative writer, and is filthy rich from said writings, lives alone in total seclusion (DB parallel). He recently wrecked his "Jag" and had to have his jaw wired shut (a disability! DB parallel). His equally awful, bitter, angry, entitled daughter shows up unannounced... to rob his loaded safe (DB parallel)! And her totally OTT psycho boyfriend is gonna help out with a little home-invading of his own. What could go wrong? Yes, that's the entire story. The "wired shut" angle serves absolutely no purpose to this narrative, other than as an annoyance. He writes notes to his daughter on this little notepad, which are usually subtitled, but when they're not, Good Luck! Yeah, he pulls the wires apart at the end, for what is the stupidest finale I've seen in recent memory. I won't even qualify it as a viable plot point! There is a very long stretch in the movie where only the boyfriend can talk. Have a gun handy, either for yourself or for your TV. It is this absolutely horrible, borderline-retarded monologue, where all you want is for the guy to shut up for a minute. I get it -- he's supposed to be crazy. This is played (by one Behtash Fazlali) so obnoxiously, it constantly veers into cartoon territory. Attention: Dedicated fans of Jack Nicholson! Bad dad tries to make it up to rotten daughter by dedicating his latest hack fest to her, but not before she tells him off again! It is implied his new book tells the story of what a changed man he's become, judging by the fact that he's used one of his hackneyed title ideas, "Metamorphosis." Honestly, these are the times I wish imdb had a zero rating.

This movie is huge waste of time and effort. It's hard to watch and stay awake. There's very little dialog and even less plot structure. I kept thinking there would be at least a twist or hidden meaning but nothing developed to make any sense of what wasn't said.

Wired Shut is a pressure cooker emotional thriller. Full of subtle foreshadowing, powerful symbolism and great acting by the three leads. It keeps you on edge the whole movie - even the ending takes an interesting turn that leaves you with lingering thoughts. The cinematography was creepy in a good way. It swept it's way through the massive mansion location, focused on little details and definitely helped to build up our perception and understanding of the characters. Great debut feature film for director Alexander Sharp.

It was Wired Somo and I would have said shut. Dumbest, slowest and most boring movie I have seen this year. Daughter can't act, dad actually looks like a down and out and the whe thing is just a slow train to nowhere.

I saw a lot of 10 ratings for the movie and I must have missed something. It was not good. Total slow burner that really didn't go anywhere, I kept waiting for something exciting to happen.

The story was very interesting from beginning to the end and the actors played their part very well. Actor Behtash playing the psycho really had everyone on edge. Great performance! The Score was also really good. Great Job Overall !

Writer/Director Alexander Sharp's glacially atmospheric unhappy family reunion 'Wired Shut' (2001) thrillingly proved to be an enjoyably dark, teeth-gnashingly tense, Hitchcockian psychodrama with some lively, engaging performances, that frostily comes to a no less tightly twisted conclusion than the grievously beleaguered main protagonist's jaw! 'Wired Shut' is arguably one of the more rewardingly adult, and dramatically compelling iterations of the usually forgettably disposable home invasion milieu. And the exotically handsome, resplendently bearded young actor Behtash Fazlali credibly makes for one of the more deliciously histrionic characters I have seen of late! I happily caught this high quality, tautly-written, slow-burning chiller on the Horror Channel recently, and can heartily recommend it to all horror/Thriller sophisticates who can appreciate a little additional depth to their late-night celluloid blood-spillage!