Control

An ambitious movie that lacks the means to fulfill its aspirations Bookended by a couple of location shoots that must have accounted for more than half of the film's budget, this is the latest entry in a genre that includes Buried (2010) and Phone Booth (2002), in which a victim trapped in a confined space is taunted by a moralising voice on the end of a phone line The twist here is that the immobile victim is trapped inside a moving (self-driving) vehicle, turning this into a sort of schlocky, genre variation on Steven Knight's brilliant Locke (2013), where Tom Hardy has to resolve his personal issues from behind the wheel of his BMW X5, with only his bluetooth connection to help Interestingly, all four films revolve around marital infidelity, with the confined circumstances of the protagonists forcing them to confront the consequences of their actions The difference between Control and the other examples cited above is the ingenious ways the other movies find to complicate and escalate the bind in which their characters find themselves The scenario and the antagonist's motivations established within the first ten-to-fifteen minutes of the movie and the parameters never really change, which means the only entertainment we have are the disembodied Spacey's long monologues about what a terrible person Metcalfe's protagonist is and how the powerful disregard or mistreat the ordinary people all around them at their peril Metcalfe's character is the UK Home Secretary, which makes Spacey's overwrought and often unintentionally comic rhetoric feel very on the nose and student politics-y The film *really* commits to its premise, never straying outwith the confines of the vehicle, meaning all the drama has to play out on Metcalfe's face That's admirable, but a film with greater resources at its disposal would have been able to create a greater sense that this was happening inside a speeding vehicle, rather than in front of a green screen or back-projection of blurry London streets And maybe a stunt or some fast-paced mayhem and destruction, to break up the sedentary monologues and create a sense of physical peril as well as moral hazard.

This seems to be a film that aims to give us a good feeling because those nasty politicians get what is coming to them finally. It is obviouly done on a very tigh budget because the whole film is really about one actress in a car with a voice tormenting her. Frankly after the first 10 minutes it gets rather boring so skip to the last 10 and save the time waste and get the ending. It is one of those films that pretends to be or maybe (being kinder) aspires to meaningful and moral but comes of a bit creepy and one dimensional. The actress struggled with the role and who can blame her with the material she had to present.

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To say this film is bad doesn't really give justice to how bad it truly is. Some of the worst acting ever seen by the female lead in the film as well as the rest of the cast...even Kevin Spacey, who does NOT appear in the movie (yes, the film director and the marketing team really tried to mislead audiences here...) gives an extremely disappointing performance with his voice over. The plot is poor, flawed and boringly unoriginal. The dialogue is just the worst and most unnatural dialogue I've ever heard in a film, and a female lead clearly written by a man. It is so insulting to women and women filmmakers...Continuity does not exist - they couldn't even be bothered to use the same colour car for the final "car stunt" of the film when they blatantly used a different model and colour car. This is a film made purely to try and attach a "name" and boost the director and producers ego, suffice to say the only name they could attach is that of Hollywood actor with a tainted reputation, and even they could not get him to appear in the film but merely record his voice. It is baffling that this film director is even allowed to make films with so much unrecognised talent out there with actual original stories and actual real pure talent and passion for the craft. Watch this film at your own peril. Some films are so bad they become iconic, this is NOT one of them. It is a film that is so bad that it should be erased from the fact of the planet. Unless you're into films with bad acting, no storyline and awful writing - in that case, this is just for you.

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I'm so sorry I wasted my time giving time to this movie all because of Kevin Spacey. I always loved his acting and while I understand that this was a soft introduction to his comeback to the movie, this was a huge disappointment! Huge ! I mean, what was the writer thinking?? Is that the dialogue you give Kevin Spacey? You have an amazing actor amazing voice command and that's what you come up with? Sad. The director, you had so much you could have done to give the movie some spark ! Some pressure! Some intense science! But no , why....let's just keep it boring with lame acting and lame words . The ministers words ! Again, what was the writer thinking? And one last big thing to the director, do you think we are all blind and stupid that we would not see that you used a DIFFERENT CAR in the end of the movie! I could not believe it, it's as if you wanted to continue the lameness till the very end.

I think that putting Kevin Spacey's name above the film's title is deliberately misleading and has angered a lot of people. Hence the many 1 star reviews. Other than that, the film is OK. The on-screen acting is'nt the best, even Kevin Spacey seems to be phoning it in, in more than one way. The story is effectively the same as the 2002 film Phone Booth, staring Colin Farrell, with Keifer Sutherland as "The Caller". So effectively, Phone Booth on wheels. But overall, it's not badly executed - it's just not original or particularly believable. The opening timelapse is well done and I enjoyed that. Kevin Spacey's voice acting was workmanlike.

I didnt expect it to be this bad. Where to begin? Beware: this movie doesnt feature Kevin Spacey, it only features his VOICE. That's it, we dont get to see the man. What we do get to see is a B-movie actress who is (ofcourse) severely limited in portraying any true to life emotions and THAT IS A PROBLEM, because we get to see ONLY 1 THING and that is this terrible actress driving in her car all the time, talking to Kevin Spacey. What the what!? Wow. I really had to gather myself after witnessing such a low point in movie making. This movie undoubtedly is a failed copycat of a terrific other movie called "Locke" (2014) which has got a terrific acting performance (by Tom Hardy) and fabulous build up in suspense and drama, everything this movie is definitely lacking in...

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