The Scribbler (2014)

Excellent but underrated film

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Per chance, I stumbled over The Scribbler. The cinematography is very well done and the atmosphere etc. reminded me a little of The Fight Club, but after half an hour or so I was more and more detached and in the end even bored. What happened!? I guess for me the switch between the mental illness and thriller theme to the supernatural-whatever just didn't work. On top, the mid section of the movie felt overstretched to me and with too much filling material, it's like a record with a few really good songs but the rest is just fillers. In my view, the material of the story is for certain interesting and got potential but even if you got good and tasty ingredients sometimes if you put them together they just don't work out well together. Btw - someone remembers The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) with Gibson and Jovovich by Wim Wenders!? Well, you won't get superheroes there but you get also a building filled with weird characters and murder etc. Well, I will re-watch The Million Dollar Hotel - thx to The Scribbler!Anyway, the aficionado of the unusual and weird may dare a look.

Another picture that had way more potential than its final product. When a young woman with dissociative identity disorder is brought to some kind of madhouse, people start killing themselves for no apparent reason. With a bunch of eccentric characters and a visual style that provokes Sin City comparisons, this comic book adaptation will certainly entertain people and capture their attention till the last minute. Unfortunately it all feels a bit rushed, bloated and shallow. With b-listers like Garret Dillahunt, Gina Gershon, Kunal Nayyar, Billy Campbell and Richard Riehle, this movie has some fun acting and prevents from feeling amateuristic, but in the end it's just too much a "been there, seen that" movie...

The scribbler is another Graphic Novel adaptation to the big screen. I've never heard of it but maybe it's well known it that world. The movie's filled with B-actors like Michelle Trachtenberg, Michael Imperioli, Gina Gershon and even Sasha grey (1 shot!). Overall the acting is not bad but for a movie about split personalities you would expect to see some of these different persons but nope, the lead actres only plays her one character and the hidden Scibbler character turns out to be a superhero-like someone but it's all a bit weird and messy. I wouldn't recommend this film but if you do see it, it will only take 89 mins out of your life.

Can be deceiving or just what they are ... in this case, you have to decide what they are. Based on a comic (which I haven't read), this has a different approach to some things, though it still has a predictability to it. What makes it better than some other movies in that genre, is that it did manage to get a stellar cast. You do believe those people, especially the female lead.And while there is a lot of suspension of disbelief, it still is grounded in its themes. It's about loneliness, about life and death, things all have to face at one point or another. Which make the movie more accessible of course. Visually stunning with a few flaws, but if you like Science Fiction with a detective plot mixed into it, you'll like this