The Scribbler (2014)

The Scribbler: Directed by John Suits. With Katie Cassidy, Garret Dillahunt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku. A young woman is facing her destructive multiple personalities using an experimental new procedure known as “The Siamese Burn.”

“First, I have to say I never read the graphic novel, so this opinion is based solely on the movie…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis looked a little weird in the trailer I saw a while back, but it looked like it had the potential to be something different and so I decided to give it a shot. Well it was an interesting story, and I was right, it was weird.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere were some known actors in this film that gave decent performances like Michael Imperioli, Gina Gershon, and Eliza Dushku to name a few. I hadnu0026#39;t seen some of them in a while, so it was definitely a good sign when I saw them in the credits.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI found some of the effects to be OK (the character transformations), but some werenu0026#39;t; like fight scenes with obvious stand-ins. You could clearly see they werenu0026#39;t even close to the same actors which was very distracting in an important part of the film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnother problem was character development. Most of the secondary characters, minus the two leads, werenu0026#39;t fleshed out very much at all. It made it difficult to care about them or what happens to them. Even the main baddie kind of comes out of nowhere which was very strange to me. Normally these characters are developed a little further so we can kind root for the guy guy (girl!) in the end; but that wasnu0026#39;t the case for me.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI was also a little bit annoyed about the movie taking place in such a small area. This normally isnu0026#39;t something I would notice, but they didnu0026#39;t do a very good job with the sets so it was pretty clear to me it was almost all the exact same set decorated differently. I donu0026#39;t have a problem with a low budget movie using the same set; but at least make me believe it isnu0026#39;t.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis was a little bit of a let down for me. I saw some recognizable faces and thought I might be in for a treat, but in the end the negatives outweigh the positives on this one. I think perhaps if the money was spent more on effects, and the writing (my guess is that they tried to stick to the novel too closely) was a little stronger on the character side, this could have been a decent movie. Unfortunately, that wasnu0026#39;t the case so Iu0026#39;ll file this one under watch once to see something weird.”