Blackjack 1998 by AverageMansReviews

Blackjack 1998 by AverageMansReviews

Review Time: this film is mixed

Warning: there is flash photography or to cover my back something to this effect in this project.

Fundamental elements: voice over elements, cultural elements, mental imagery, background music, slow-motion effects, no subtitles when another language is being used, time jumps and place jumps

Movement; minus the first section of this film, it snowballs downhill from there in fact it just ambles along, it is worthwhile pointing out that individually or together the storyline doesn't help things either so there is plenty of blame to be shared between the movement and the storyline.

Storyline/Back stories: the storyline is badly designed, without giving too much away we have these three components; this girl, the problem our lead character/role [Devlin/Lundgren] has and this model. The problem is this; what they should have done is choose two out of the three components and extend them consequently dropping one, I would have dropped the model component and focus on the other two components. Because still without trying not to give too much away I doubt that this accident was an accident because of what we know at that point and the girl component and the problem which our lead character/performer has are linked on one level anyway so they may as well have used these two components, but as this film is it swiftly moves onto the model component with the other two components being situated around it, basically there was supremely better material and substance to be had just focusing on the first two components.

The back stories; they come to the audience via the following; dialogue exchanges with photographs or just dialogue exchanges, mental imagery, newspaper and storyteller with mental imagery.

Action sequences/Artistic visions: for one example there is a double team, it is where our supporting character/performer Casey/Murphy is on Devlin/Lundgren's back telling him what to do, because he has been incapacitated and at the end of this sequence there is a great use it of a trampoline and a swimming pool

Artistic visions: there is this sky in the background when it is just our criminal character/performer of the model storyline component on screen sitting down with his gun after missing his shot and in the same component there is this dancing scene and there is this mask being worn.

Character developments/Performances: the character developments are something safe and reliable, the performances are good yes there is chemistry/friction depending where you are; is depending what you get.

This film receives: 4/10, now it has just dawned on me if they had dropped the model component of the storyline and focused on the other two storyline components, this is just speculation but still a possibility that consequently this film would have been able to move with a bit more get up and go, I mean as things are in the first section of this film it was looking at something higher as it relates to its mark, but on the whole it has enough about it to get itself out of the poor section of my reviewing system.