Drifter Movie Download

2 / 10

Paying homage to films it’ll never get close to is as good as this got.
I had to turn this off half way through.

That sentence alone should be where I end the review but I feel I should expand. I turned the movie off and watched the rest at another time, after my senses were sufficiently rested.

There sort of a plot – brothers are on a revenge mission to kill their father’s murder in a post-apocalyptic world. They end up in the wrong town and things go wrong. They meet the wrong people, – the end.

So then, let’s dissect this then: The plot is weak – it’s been done before many a time. The only twist on it comes right at the end when you’ll have lost interest and probably worked it out. The acting is annoying; I didn’t care for anybody in this and would have welcomed a H-bomb destroying them all to make the film shorter. It’s slow to get going and even when it’s running fast it feels painfully laborious – in fact, the longer you watch this film, the slower it gets and the harder it is to watch. It feels like they swapped writers half way through to inject pace and instead of going forwards they new writers found the reverse switch and decided to go with it. The music and sound sometimes deafens the narrative, you’d think this is a good thing based on the points I’ve made. In fact it’s the opposite, somebody has tried to be clever and deliver intensity and psychology via the music score – I’m afraid it didn’t work and just ends up being annoying. Things happen in the story for no reason, with no motivation or explanation. There is no character development; it just is as it is. Stupid choices are made constantly – both in front and behind the camera. There are constant nods of homage to other films, which are similar but a billion times better, there’s one point where they practically just lifted scenes from “From Dusk till Dawn”, you’ll no doubt see “The Hills have eyes”, “The Crazies”, any “House of 1000 corpses”, “Devils Rejects”, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”. Do yourself a favour, watch one of those instead.

2 out of 10 is being generous. This was very close to being a 1 out of 10.Read More