The only blindsided thing about this film relates with everyone involved with since they failed to notice how dumb and precarious the script was while
recycling many films all in one and still didn't deliver anything for us in the audience. Harvey Keitel does his best as the motel manager involved in a messy
surveillance story where he secretly records his guests involved in shady businesses and a murder plan might be included. The poor man is only trying to be
a hero to escape a traumatic tragedy from his past and maybe escape some boredom since he only deals with cheap clients who never pay on time.
"Blindside" is one of those flicks where the writer creates chaos and confusion in the firm belief he's bringing some innovation by messing with the minds of viewers. He fails at that because he doesn't generate interest, scene after scene is a mess where we never know for sure what's the gangsters schemes, who's folowing who and at times even who's who as there are two or three similarly faced actors you can't tell them apart. It doesn't feel like a well-constructed and seductive web, it's like a juggling act where you just keep dizzy trying to figure everything but lose interest very quickly. And by trying to be intelligent, it didn't fooled anyone.
It gets wildly cheap when it takes elements from "The Conversation" and "Blow Out" trying to look an improvoment on those due to updated technology of cameras, videos and recorders at the time, but there's nothing fascinating about this, neither about the bad guys - and there's plenty of them; and the whole exchanges between Keitel and the semi-hysterical, friendly exotic dancer played by Lolita Davidovich just serves the purpose of annoying audiences and grant a slightly interesting dance sequence of which the poor man can't enjoy completely as he's trying to figure out what he really captured on those secret audios and what he could to help the potential victim.
It's no surprise this movie is under the radar of most viewers, and we're only in it because of Harvey Keitel. He doesn't disappoint but he could do better without. It's such a mess of a movie that one can avoid the headaches of following the painful twists and turns, and the slowness of it all. 4/10.
"Blindside" is one of those flicks where the writer creates chaos and confusion in the firm belief he's bringing some innovation by messing with the minds of viewers. He fails at that because he doesn't generate interest, scene after scene is a mess where we never know for sure what's the gangsters schemes, who's folowing who and at times even who's who as there are two or three similarly faced actors you can't tell them apart. It doesn't feel like a well-constructed and seductive web, it's like a juggling act where you just keep dizzy trying to figure everything but lose interest very quickly. And by trying to be intelligent, it didn't fooled anyone.
It gets wildly cheap when it takes elements from "The Conversation" and "Blow Out" trying to look an improvoment on those due to updated technology of cameras, videos and recorders at the time, but there's nothing fascinating about this, neither about the bad guys - and there's plenty of them; and the whole exchanges between Keitel and the semi-hysterical, friendly exotic dancer played by Lolita Davidovich just serves the purpose of annoying audiences and grant a slightly interesting dance sequence of which the poor man can't enjoy completely as he's trying to figure out what he really captured on those secret audios and what he could to help the potential victim.
It's no surprise this movie is under the radar of most viewers, and we're only in it because of Harvey Keitel. He doesn't disappoint but he could do better without. It's such a mess of a movie that one can avoid the headaches of following the painful twists and turns, and the slowness of it all. 4/10.