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This week, Kyle and Trevor take a chance and review M.J. Bassett's, Deathwatch (2002)!
A prolific action film and television director, Bassett's Deathwatch is unfortunately a dour and halfbaked war-horror film.
Headlined by a very young Jamie Bell, and featuring the prodigious talent of Andy Serkis at a pivotal moment in his career, the films' cast proves to one of it's few highlights.
Similarly, aside from heavy-handed and somewhat chintzy instrumentation in it's score, as well as questionable usage of CGI, the films' cinematography, and in particular it's production design, prove to be quite competent.
The real issue with Deathwatch proves to be in the execution and direction of its narrative.
Largely devoid of coherent internal logic, the film often feels incapable of, rather than unwilling to, explain itself.
Never truly boring, and with a capable cast of actors peforming before lovingly detailed and designed sets, the film is far from terrible, but unfortunately nowhere near the sum of its parts
A missed opportunity likely brought on by lack of financing, lack of time, or too great or too little ambition on the part of the director.
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