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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 416820" data-attributes="member: 23">The Reckoning (2014)

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Combining the found-footage genre with the &quot;burnt out alcoholic cop investigates the death of his collegue&quot; trope, this film is everything you&#039;d expect that pairing to be. In short, because it&#039;s neither one thing nor the other it doesn&#039;t work as well as it should on either level. And the more layers there are, the less it works (there&#039;s a heavily-implied soap operatic backstory with an affair between the cop and his female colleague that&#039;s further wrecked his home life). 

Production-wise it feels very much like a TV movie, and it&#039;s fine on that level. The performances are decent and the writing, while not the most innovative, also has its moments with a couple of little twists and turns. It&#039;s also Australian, which is a plus in my book. 

All in all, a perfectly serviceable gritty thriller. It doesn&#039;t complete me, but neither do I regret watching.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 416820, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=5]The Reckoning[/SIZE][/B] (2014) [img]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.cnuputpx2SupT-PslB--cgHaKS%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=6222bbd9096119f5cd34294d9415243f42ba2f61ae1f97e6513c697d03ef3647&ipo=images[/img] Combining the found-footage genre with the "burnt out alcoholic cop investigates the death of his collegue" trope, this film is everything you'd expect that pairing to be. In short, because it's neither one thing nor the other it doesn't work as well as it should on either level. And the more layers there are, the less it works (there's a heavily-implied soap operatic backstory with an affair between the cop and his female colleague that's further wrecked his home life). Production-wise it feels very much like a TV movie, and it's fine on that level. The performances are decent and the writing, while not the most innovative, also has its moments with a couple of little twists and turns. It's also Australian, which is a plus in my book. All in all, a perfectly serviceable gritty thriller. It doesn't complete me, but neither do I regret watching.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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