Amnesiacs rejoice! This movie starts off slow but is unable to keep pace and slows to a crawl. You can doze off at any point confident you will not miss a thing.
The basic premise is a lousy actress awakens in a motel room and tries to figure out what is going on. It soon becomes apparent that the answer is: nothing. Nothing is going on. Nevertheless, the lousy actress remains stumped for the bulk of the film.
The lead actress is terrible. I assume the only reason she got the part is because she produced and co-wrote (someone wrote this?!) this mess.
One star for an experiment. Zero stars because it should have ended up on the cutting room floor. One star.
Plot summary
We made a movie in a day: We traveled 467 miles, to 20 locations, with 18 actors, in less than 24 hours. The lead actress wasn't given a script, a story line, or even her character name. She 'woke up' in a hotel room with no memory, and her only goal was to figure out who she was. We rehearsed with 17 of the actors for 3 days leading up to the shoot day. The other actors couldn't have a script either, we would never know what Shannon would say or how she would react. The other actors could only work off of goals and motivations. We blindfolded Shannon Lucio for wardrobe, she wasn't allowed to see her hair and makeup. And we dropped her in a city she doesn't know, Dallas, and she had to 'choose her own adventure'. There were no second takes, no rehearsals for Shannon. Everything that she experiences, everything that she sees, and every decision that she makes is the first time it is ever happening. It was the hardest thing I've ever done, but its the most amazing thing to watch. She truly had no idea what was going to happen to her. Story: Without any memory of who she is or her past, Blair (Shannon Lucio) wakes up in a hotel room with a dead body. After receiving a mysterious phone call, she flees in search of answers and is immediately pursued by a corrupt organization that is determined to keep the truth of her identity concealed. With the help of Victoria (Cassie Shea Watson) and Frank (Stephen Brodie),Blair is confronted with a sequence of startling discoveries that exposes a reality she never could've imagined.
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Alternate title: A Dull Grind To Nowhere
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Again, 6.9 rating for a 3.9 one? Please audit the rating. The first half hour can cut for 5 mins, why waste so much time on nothing to delivery? Just a crazy woman wandering for first 30 mins, oh gosh.....
Some experiments fail.
And some, like this one, fail spectacularly and abysmally. How anyone imagined that this was a good idea is difficult to fathom. The experiment might have had a remote chance of being moderately adequate if they had "cast" actual, even barely semi-competent actors with some kind of improvisational ability instead of apparently recruiting random laymen off the street. Avoid.