Contracted, the Movie and Three More Thing Not to Do.

As always this is from the viewpoint of writing and not a movie critique per say. This is more to ask the question of what when wrong and what can be learned from this? Fine line, I know.

So with that said I just finished forcing my way through, "Contracted." I had truly hoped it was better than what the reviews had reported. The first forty five minutes came across more like a soap opera than a horror story, it had character development, but I wish it had a faster tempo. I honestly had to force my way past this and continued watching it later in the day. Also, the reverse of that, once the story took off and got interesting, character development went out the window and it was eye candy for the most part.

It starts off stating that this is, "Day One," but gives no indication how long the timeline is. When you get to the all important forty five minute mark you start to wonder if there are thirty days of this or ninety days... It should have given the ticking time bomb count down from the get go. It isn't until day three that we learn that there are only three days to the story.

Second, is this mystery character, B.J. that was at the party, he slips something into our main characters drink and rapes her, and is now part of a police investigation, but this is only spoken from one character to another, there is no visual contact for the viewer to make with the investigation and there is no indication of why he is wanted. Not only that but it is systematically brought up throughout the movie as if important, the viewers interest is peaked in this guy, but nothing is said or done about answering the viewers questions ~ unlike Psycho when you gain more interest in the characters and the money is not only lost, but forgotten by the viewer, it isn't continually brought up.

Third, the story ends for no reason. Don't ever end a story so open ended that there is no reason for the story to end. Kill off the main character, solve the mystery to what caused the events to take place, find this B.J. and get some resolution from him, but don't ever end a story fading to black with a scream and nothing answered! That's more annoying than watching a murder mystery and the power goes out as they say, "...and the murder is..." It's like watching a soap opera.

That's my nickle worth of free advise on that.


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