Review of Playback

Playback (II) (2012)
2/10
When did Christian Slaters career hit the buffers?
17 February 2013
Warning: Spoilers
First the good news I did not pay for the film it was free on Sky, when I say free I mean apart from the exorbitant monthly subscription. Now the bad news I was robbed. The story line a man who we get to know very little about in the early part of the 20th century made a cameo film so he could steal the souls of the people in the footage.

Then jump forward to I think 1994 and deranged Harlan Diehl (Luke Bonczyk) kills his family in their farm and only a baby survives. We then get to the present day and a group of replaceable teenager Americans who look more middle to late twenties than teenagers (Toby Hemingway,Jonahtan Keltz, Johnny Pacar, Jennifer Missoni, Luke Bonczyk, Alessandra Torresani and Ambyr Childer) All hell breaks out murder a bit of flesh and a bit of gore.

Now how far must your career sink when appearing in this mess seems like a good idea? Christian Slater wanders bored as a porn-addicted cop buying covert footage from inside the girls locker school from the pre-possessed filmmaker.

Writing that it seems more exciting then it is the acting is appalling, the script has no thought, the plot messy. On a Saturday we like to get a Chinese takeaway and my cat tried a prawn cracker about an hour in to the film which he surprisingly enjoyed, my cat eating a prawn cracker was like the making of Citizen Kane compared to this film. Avoid like the plague and if anyone bumps into Christian Slater ask him what the hell he was thinking.
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