Division 19 (2017)

Division 19: Directed by S.A. Halewood. With Lotte Verbeek, Linus Roache, Alison Doody, Clarke Peters. 2039: Anonymity/living off the grid is a crime. Punishment is “disappearance”. Following the lives of convicts becomes entertainment on TV. A group of young men called Division 19 works against the system.

“I had a really hard time staying awake for this mess of a film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe first 1/4 of the film was decent enough to suck you in, but then it was just random dumb camera shots (literally, 5 second scenes jumping all over the place – to no where) and some decent (but useless) Parkour acrobatics.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eClearly the concept was taken from many other films, but I didnu0026#39;t care about that. What bothered me was writer/director/producer Suzie Halewoodu0026#39;s poor attempt to create a decent story/screenplay. It almost seems like of the 5 hours total of decent filming, it was edited down to random 5-10 second scenes that were repetitive and ended up no where. Major plot issues with lack of any real story, and even worse dialogue. How do two brothers meet again after 10 years, have a one-sided 5 second conversation about nothing, then onto the next scene? Jamie Draven as Harden needed much more dialogue, instead of all these irrelevant scenes on buildings.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI get this was a low budget film, and I really enjoyed the low budget effects, but the problem here is the very amateurish writing and terrible screenplay with useless scenes, jumping in and out of nowhere. Halewoodu0026#39;s directing behind the camera was not bad, but her editing the film to its final cut was atrocious. A 5th grader couldu0026#39;ve written a more solid story.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNevertheless, ignore the clearly fake 8-10/10 reviews. This film had a great opportunity that Halewood blew trying to wear all these hats. Itu0026#39;s a 4/10 from me, strictly for the decent low budget effects and the acting.”