Elsewhere
(2008/E1 Blu-ray + DVD)
Picture:
B-/C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Film: D
Anna
Kendrick of Twilight and Tania
Raymonde of TV’s LOST are wasted in
a new serial killer film by Nathan Hope called Elsewhere, that will make you wish you were watching something else
(or doing anything else) elsewhere instead of watching this lame attempt to do
every single cliché we have seen before as a slower, supposedly smarter film
when it has zero suspense, mystery or adds anything new to every formula it is
covering, no matter how much Hope tries to con us and himself into believing
otherwise.
Teenaged
girls are disappearing and suspects include a semi-bully (Paul Wesley) teen who
brags all the time about his bravado while being rude and an adult (Jon Gries
of Napoleon Dynamite and Real Genius) in a not so tough guessing
game of who a kidnapper/torturer/killer might be. As the 106 very long minutes wind out, you
start rooting for the killer… any killer to show up and get this bore going. Dialogue by the director is especially bad
and the result is a total mess best skipped.
The 1080p
1.78 X 1 digital High Definition image has some good color, but that is foiled
by noise, detail issues and even outright softness that looks bad here and
worse on the anamorphically enhanced DVD.
The DTS-HD Master Audio (MA) 5.1 lossless and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mixes are
harsher than they should be on the Blu-ray, while the exact same problem
carries over to the Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo mixes on the DVD. However/whoever mixed this did a botched job
and be careful at what levels you play this.
Extras include stills, deleted scenes, making of featurette and audio
commentary that find a way to stretch things out.
- Nicholas Sheffo
