A week or so ago, Netflix gave me a notification that this movie was newly added, and it seemed more or less interesting so I considered watching it sometime in the future. Tonight, as I'm filled with snot and eye water due to an illness, I decided to watch it mostly for the convenience factor of it being on Netflix and me not wanting to watch anything I'd have to be too invested in (meaning, other movies with favorite actors in them because then I'd want to actually pay a lot of attention to the movie).
This movie had Angelina Jolie in it, who is a famous actress for some reason or other. Maybe it was because she was married to Brad Pitt. As far as I'm aware, I don't recall watching any other movies with her in them in the past. She looked kind of weird in this movie because a) her eyebrows were plucked very thinly and b) her lips looked puffy, which I think they might just be naturally, but it looked sort of weird. She played an FBI agent who goes to Canada to help police there catch a serial killer. I'm not really sure what the purpose of setting the movie in Canada was - it didn't seem to make much of a difference in the plot. It very well could've just taken place in the US. Anyways, she goes there and tries to help solve the murders.
Ethan Hawke, another actor who I'm vaguely familiar with, was also in this movie as a main character. He was in two other movies that I've seen which also happened to have Vincent in them. In one part of this movie, his character wears glasses and I thought that he looked somewhat similar to James D'Arcy, particularly a character that he played that wore glasses. In the past I'd also noticed this slight similarity, since there was a poster of him reading a book in the library in high school and I walked by it probably every day. They also had posters of other famous-ish people, like the Twilight cast and Seth Meyers, and some basketball player, and I think Hugh Laurie as well (maybe?). The Seth Meyers one (I hope I'm remembering correctly and not just imagining it) made me think of when Seth Meyers played Anderson Cooper on SNL. "See the news reflected in the shimmering blue pools that are my eyes." There was a scene at the end of this movie that reminded me a little of a movie James was in, called In Their Skin. Interestingly enough, the concept of that movie is kind of similar to the concept of this movie, which is about a serial killer who kills people and assumes their identities. Speaking of which, it might be interesting to watch that movie again. I thought that it was surprisingly decent for some random horror-ish movie, and James D'Arcy plays a depraved murderous guy. Fun, right?!
Spoilery comments: I kept thinking that Ethan Hawke's character would either get murdered or possibly turn out to be the murderer, and I was right!!
Overall it was an okay movie. Very average and it certainly could've been better and more riveting. It wasn't horrible though and I didn't go into it with particularly high expectations, so it wasn't as much of a disappointment as, say, Zodiac.
Overrated: Johnny Depp, superhero movies and shows
Underrated: all of my favorite actors (minus Leo though), Law and Order CI,
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