Film Review: Tied to a Chair
Tied to a Chair is one of those films that makes me sit back and wonder whether it might have been better served if the writer/director had given one of his roles to someone else. A low budget film that reveals its inadequacies in its editing and mish mash of a storyline.
The film has essentially three plots revolving around one character who is essentially the amalgam of three. The Naomi we meet from the outset is a ditzy British wife who can't cook nor do anything right. When her husband asks her what she wants to do with her life, she reveals that she threw her dreams out the window when she married him. She wanted to be an actress.
So she ups and leaves her staid life in Britain and heads off to Cannes, and this is where plot two begins. She no longer has the British accent and instead she's an American, desperately seeking the role of a lifetime.
Her quest eventually leads her to New York, her hometown, where she gets embroiled in some criminal activity. And this - in essence - is plot number three.
The film has some potential, but it seems to be lost in the stiffness of some of the acting and the choppiness of some of the editing. I think had the film been directed by someone else, it might have been much more refined all around with only a marginal increase in the budget to accommodate the additional headcount.
In the end this film had way too many stories going on and not enough umph to transition between them. The magic unfolds at the end as if that's when everyone become more comfortable in their roles. At times this film was more a collection of ideas, rather than a fluid story.
The film has essentially three plots revolving around one character who is essentially the amalgam of three. The Naomi we meet from the outset is a ditzy British wife who can't cook nor do anything right. When her husband asks her what she wants to do with her life, she reveals that she threw her dreams out the window when she married him. She wanted to be an actress.
So she ups and leaves her staid life in Britain and heads off to Cannes, and this is where plot two begins. She no longer has the British accent and instead she's an American, desperately seeking the role of a lifetime.
Her quest eventually leads her to New York, her hometown, where she gets embroiled in some criminal activity. And this - in essence - is plot number three.
The film has some potential, but it seems to be lost in the stiffness of some of the acting and the choppiness of some of the editing. I think had the film been directed by someone else, it might have been much more refined all around with only a marginal increase in the budget to accommodate the additional headcount.
In the end this film had way too many stories going on and not enough umph to transition between them. The magic unfolds at the end as if that's when everyone become more comfortable in their roles. At times this film was more a collection of ideas, rather than a fluid story.
Up to now, Examiner.com hasn’t printed any positive movie reviews from The Delray Beach Film Festival. There are only so many movies you can catch at a film festival and you hope you find the diamonds in the rough. A diamond has been found with the comedy “Tied to a Chair” thanks, in part, to the film’s leading lady, Bonnie Loren, who shines very brightly in this film.
ReplyDeleteContinue reading on Examiner.com: DBFF movie review: 'Tied to a Chair'' - West Palm Beach and Miami Movie | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/and-miami-movie-in-west-palm-beach/dbff-movie-review-tied-to-a-chair#ixzz1MqV0c3q0