Director:
Zachary Zises
Studio/Production Company:
Bzzz Films
Genre:
Drama
Length:
Feature
Website:
http://www.bzzzfilms.com
Score:
1.5/5
Oddly anachronistic in it’s look, the cinematography is only the first thing about writer-director Zachary Zises’ debut, “Tenfold.” There were a lot of great films that were made in the 70’s and still retain their narrative energy even if much of the visual shimmer has faded. “Tenfold” looks like it was shot in the ‘70’s maybe as an homage to those great films, maybe simply because that is the way the film came out looking. In any case, the film seems to be aiming for something complex and different, maybe in the vein of “The Conversation” or “The Parallax View” but it winds up being tedious and quickly uninteresting.
The plot involves David (Tim Decker) returning to his native Chicago after an extensive and extended solo trip around the world. Resuming his practice of law with a presumably clear head, he chooses to take on the liability suit of Bobby (Joe Forbrich) an intense man seeking legal justice in the case of his young daughter’s accidental death. The globe-trotting appears to have had a positive effect on David and he professes to be genuinely concerned with helping people like Bobby who are desperately in need.
In his off-time, David courts, and eventually attracts a tough, world weary yet attractive barmaid, Pam (Holli Homlien) who also seems to have a void in her life that he tries to fill.
Of course, not everything is as it appears on the surface, troubling revelations about David and his motivations to help these two people emerge and soon the three principals find themselves trapped in an impossibly difficult situation.
In other hands, the material might have had some potential, maybe after a few more drafts of the screenplay but once the direction of the story becomes apparent, there really isn’t anywhere to go, the film becomes progressively heavy-handed and, in addition to the merely adequate acting and the already mentioned bland cinematography, “Tenfold” just crumbles under the weight of it’s seemingly lofty ambitions.
Zachary Zises
Studio/Production Company:
Bzzz Films
Genre:
Drama
Length:
Feature
Website:
http://www.bzzzfilms.com
Score:
1.5/5
Oddly anachronistic in it’s look, the cinematography is only the first thing about writer-director Zachary Zises’ debut, “Tenfold.” There were a lot of great films that were made in the 70’s and still retain their narrative energy even if much of the visual shimmer has faded. “Tenfold” looks like it was shot in the ‘70’s maybe as an homage to those great films, maybe simply because that is the way the film came out looking. In any case, the film seems to be aiming for something complex and different, maybe in the vein of “The Conversation” or “The Parallax View” but it winds up being tedious and quickly uninteresting.
The plot involves David (Tim Decker) returning to his native Chicago after an extensive and extended solo trip around the world. Resuming his practice of law with a presumably clear head, he chooses to take on the liability suit of Bobby (Joe Forbrich) an intense man seeking legal justice in the case of his young daughter’s accidental death. The globe-trotting appears to have had a positive effect on David and he professes to be genuinely concerned with helping people like Bobby who are desperately in need.
In his off-time, David courts, and eventually attracts a tough, world weary yet attractive barmaid, Pam (Holli Homlien) who also seems to have a void in her life that he tries to fill.
Of course, not everything is as it appears on the surface, troubling revelations about David and his motivations to help these two people emerge and soon the three principals find themselves trapped in an impossibly difficult situation.
In other hands, the material might have had some potential, maybe after a few more drafts of the screenplay but once the direction of the story becomes apparent, there really isn’t anywhere to go, the film becomes progressively heavy-handed and, in addition to the merely adequate acting and the already mentioned bland cinematography, “Tenfold” just crumbles under the weight of it’s seemingly lofty ambitions.