Jetsam

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Audience Member This was a well done film on what was probably a shoestring budget. Nice concept with the woman waking up on the beach and then the guy wants to kill her etc- it set out some interesting mysteries from the start. it was also pretty well acted and so on, though the accents seemed a bit off here and there for some reason. The problem with it was that there were quite a few 'but surely she would have'... 'but couldn't she have...' moments in the film, making the twists not quite add up, but it achieved an atmospheric effect while maintaining momentum. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Mike M In his debut feature, Welsford doesn't have the budget to convincingly render revolutionary technology (which is why he wisely keeps it off-screen) or one shadowy spy network, let alone the two his script demands; there are obvious technical limitations (hyperactive digital camerawork, and patchy recording of dialogue we badly need to hear clearly), and the direction is just a mite too po-faced to pull off such "Mission: Impossible"-ish flourishes as microphones that can be swallowed in tablet form. Still, "Jetsam" has a major asset in the watchable (and watchful) Reid, being pulled every which way through a similar character arc to that travelled by Rose Byrne across the two seasons of TV's "Damages"; Welsford makes atmospheric play of the contrast between city and sea, and very nearly pulls off a clever, cyclical plot that involves two members of the cast of "The Descent" tailing one another. He's not quite up to that yet, but he's on his way: this is the kind of convoluted headscratcher Christopher Nolan attempted with "Following" before going onto "Memento". Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/29/09 Full Review Read all reviews

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