Review of Franklyn

Franklyn (2008)
7/10
Fateful fantasies
14 February 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This movie starts out as a seemingly typical "The city sleeps..." style sci-fi/noir. You know the deal, Dark City, Sin City, Watchmen, even Blade Runner. Then the separate narratives are introduced and the threads slowly tie together. A masked vigilante is out to destroy The Individual for the good of Meanwhile City. A death-obsessed artist makes a video compilation of her suicide attempts. A father searches for his lost, mentally insane son. A man abandoned at the alter runs into an old lover, but she is not the person he thinks she is. The general trend of all of the narratives is loneliness, fate, and the "faith" that things might just come together.

It's not the most original or well-done movie for any of the topics or styles it takes on, but it's fun to watch and the acting is decent. It has the potential to become a slow-boiling cult favorite along the lines of The Crow and others, especially for its Gothic Meanwhile City decor, but time will tell on that one. I really enjoyed it because I'm into the genre, but it's likely that for a lot of people it won't particularly offer them anything they felt they haven't seen.

--PolarisDiB
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