I Know Who Killed Me (Blu-ray)
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B+ Sound: B+ Extras: C Film: D
About 2/3
of the way through Miss Lindsay Lohan’s disastrous 2007 film I Know Who Killed Me, I felt like
re-titling the film “Someone Please Kill
Me”, as this film borders on incomprehensible and severely disjointed it’s
any wonder how someone could make such junk, but the producers were obviously
hoping for good results and one selling point: Lohan as a stripper. Taking a role like this is like Miss Lohan
taking a gun to her career with one bullet in the chamber ready to kill her
career faster than you can say “paparazzi”.
To some
degree I can understand Lohan wanting to do something ‘different’ in her
career, so she thinks that a psychological thriller/horror film will do the
trick, but she only got that partly correct.
You see the other part is doing one that will be good, that’s where the
rest of the production relies on a competent crew, mostly a director. In this case we get Chris Silvertson, who
most will obviously know from his co-directing on 2001’s All Cheerleaders Die, which nearly made the AFI top 100 that they
just revamped. Of course I am joking
here as Silvertson is hardly known and after making a film of this nature, it’s
no wonder.
The film
tries so hard to be a good psychological thriller as we are introduced to two
sides of our main character, the first is Audrey Fleming and the other is
Dakota Moss, and the main difference is that the second personality is the one
that showed up after being sadistically tortured by a capturer. Although the question is whether this new
personality is a whole new person altogether or is just simple delusion. Either way both are unconvincing and don’t
really make the film work regardless of the outcome. Again the main selling point here: Lohan as a
stripper.
Most of
the time I kept thinking about another film, Halle Berry’s underrated 2003 film
Gothika, which took a similar
premise, but worked so much better, then again Lohan is no Halle Berry
either.
The anamorphically
enhanced 2.40 X 1 1080p High Definition is top-notch for sure, but no matter
how good the image looks and how good Lohan looks, it doesn’t change the
dreadful script that these actors are trying to waddle through. The cinematography for the film is
unimaginative, clichéd, and doesn’t really move the ball ahead in any way,
shape or form. Needless to say this is
just one more thing to add to the list of things that didn’t work out well for
this film. The audio is also quite good
offered here in PCM 5.1 uncompressed audio and Dolby TrueHD, which it’s amazing
that this film gets that treatment while other films, especially much better
films, don’t get Dolby TrueHD.
The last
and final straw for me besides seeing this film struggle to be a winner was
also seeing Julia Ormond attach herself to this project. I like Ormond and I truly hope that she gets
back into some more serious work in the very near future. Extras on the disc include an alternate
opening and alternate ending, which it’s a shame they didn’t make an alternate
middle too, then maybe the film could have worked. There is also extra strip scene footage for
those who are bummed they spent full price on a film this bad, maybe this will
ease the pain and a blooper reel, which you might mistake for the feature film
if you aren’t careful.
- Nate Goss
