B JS

I am enjoying this series. I did see the movie many years ago but I forgot almost all of it, so it is as if I’m seeing it for the first time. My one major complaint, (and I admit that my hearing is not so great anymore) has to do with Ruth Nega, who seems to be a good actress as I’ve seen her in other things, but unfortunately, at least to me, she mumbles and whispers most of her dialogue. If not for the subtitles that I can use on my TV screen, I would not be able to understand much of anything she says. I seem to feel that this is a problem which many actors have nowadays; it seems like they think that true acting requires almost whispering to convey deep emotions. I wish she would speak up and use the voice box that she was born with. Otherwise, I am enjoying the series.

One of the online reviewer‘s wrote that he/she enjoyed the film although admitting that this movie does have some plot holes and frustrating moments. Unfortunately, in my opinion, that is an understatement. I don’t mind suspending disbelief to a certain extent; however, this film became ludicrous to me. First of all there was not one other human being on those isolated streets, for 90% of the film. How convenient. Second, the deaf daughter has her mother waiting in this desolate alleyway with the money in her bag while the daughter goes looking for parking. The three policemen deserve to get the Three Stooges award. Two of them are standing outside the police station smoking, while the deaf girl and deaf mother are frantically trying to push them into the police station to show them the carnage that was unfolding, and you see those two policemen with their mouths wide open slowly walking towards the police station as if they have no idea that anything might be going on in there. And then the policeman/brother of the kidnapped girl… Well, I don’t know how he ever became a policeman; he had no weapon on him and he kept turning his back to the killer all the time, allowing the killer to take his sweet time reviving himself, getting up and re-attacking him. And he allows the killer to be left alone with the deaf girl so he can find his sister, believing the crazy killer, which is beyond absurd. I mean it was all so so ludicrous.

Absurd! How on earth was the wife sure that he would sacrifice himself to the police the moment she lied to him that she was pregnant? And are they trying to make the viewer think that she set up the mugging at the very beginning and somehow knew that the guy would come to the rescue and that her husband would immediately hire him? Talk about having to suspend disbelief