I don't want to waste any more time on this garbage so I will keep my review short. This is a low quality, made-for-TV level movie. I could tell immediately. All aspects are terrible. It's a complete waste of time. (1 viewing, 1/15/2022)
Snakehead
2021
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Snakehead
2021
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Keywords: new york cityimmigrationmigration
Plot summary
A Chinese immigrant get caught up in an international crime ring of human smuggling while attempting to make a better life for her family.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
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Who decided this was a good idea for a movie?
Not bad at all.
Again I don't get what people didn't like about this movie. I must have a strange and different view of what an entertaining movie looks like. I thought Snakehead was highly entertaining, a good plot (I really don't get what some reviewers thought was confusing) and a more than decent cast. All the actors are unknown to me but they all delivered. I though the acting was actually quite good, much better than what I was expecting after seeing the score it gets on here. I wouldn't pay too much attention to the bad reviews, if you look for an entertaining movie this is one of them.
It felt too long, was too slow, and riddled with plot issues.
I don't know if I watched a botched edited version, but there were many scenes that felt pieces were missing, and/or came out of nowhere. This is writer and director Evan Jackson Leong's feature film debut - previously known for documentaries and short films. Overall he did a great job for a newb filmmaker; most of the cinematography and camera work was excellent, but the slow-mo scenes were annoying. It was a visually stylish story, but the cliched gangster narrative fell short on its own heavy ambitions. The short 89 min runtime felt much longer and dragged out with the slow pacing and dragged out and/or unnecessary scenes. Casting was decent, with the stand-out performances by Sung Kang and Jade Wu, but I wasn't impressed with Shuya Chang; her character was unconvincing and it felt like she didn't want to be there with her constant straight-faced look and demeanor. Overall not a bad film, watchable to the end, so it's a 6/10 from me.