Review of Adverse

Adverse (2020)
5/10
Riddled with clichés still keeps the interest up
26 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
1 star for being close enough to make a solid movie

In shorter: The at time horrible acting mixed with solid moments or moments where the bad acting makes it feel a tad more realistic makes up for an overall ok experience.

If you are looking for a mid-high budget action, this isn't it. This is a decent low budget crime/thriller with cliché ridden plotline that still doesn't feel that unoriginal somehow.

In longer: Some of the effects (some of the gore and most of the lighting) is ok or even good and costume feels on point. It also tries to use the sound to convey the mixed emotions of the lead (as done better in many other movies; like spun 2002 with Rourke in it, but still strikes onto that tone clearly enough), which would have worked better without the dialect that in some scenes strangely work but in others simply doesn't work.

This lacks a tad in most departments from being really good, but theyre close to reaching over the hump and on a low budget that isn't bad. This movie feels a little rushed at some parts (CGI parking house?), but if the director is helped with time management or given more time the end resault could possibly have been better.

Scenography overall is quite good as mentioned for a low budget movie. This movie needed some nicer shots though, with drones being inexpensive that could have given it a feeling of being a tad higher in the budget department.

Pro's Not that far from being over the hump in several categories, shame it didn't reach it Bad acting and weird accent choice makes some scenes over the top enough to feel realistical.

Con's Acting; up and down with a strange accent choice Capturing the moment, some camera angles could have been picked better.

CGI.
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