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      Phantom Halo

      R Released Jun 19, 2015 1h 29m Crime Drama Mystery & Thriller List
      8% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 43% 100+ Ratings Audience Score A scheme for making easy money goes awry when a young man (Luke Kleintank) turns to counterfeiting to repay his father's (Sebastian Roché) debts. Read More Read Less

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      Charlie B It was really good, the plot was simple but the acting was good. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/24 Full Review Frances H The plot wasn't that consistent but the acting was good with a decent cast who deserved a better script. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/21/18 Full Review Audience Member Personally, I liked it. The plot is probably ordinary, but nevertheless actors did their job right. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member It's not often a movie comes along that I think is terrible. This one was unfortunately. I sort of understood the plot but it's so beyond unrealistic but trying to maintain some sort of reality, it just couldn't do it. Half way through I just couldn't see it going anywhere other than horribly wrong Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member One of those little indies that tries hard to create characters that appear to represent the underbelly of society. In doing so it fails to give us one single person to cheer for. Everyone is uninterestingly unlikeable. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member "At your age, I was better !" Occasionally you come across a movie you've never heard about, with a well known actor starring in it. Like "Phantom Halo" for instance with Thomas "The Maze Runner" Brodie-Sangster. In hindsight it seemed as if they wanted to cram different stories in one film. One of those stories was portrayed in a successful way. The storyline which covered the criminal element, lamentably ended in a fiasco. The use of centuries old literature written by Shakespeare, won't turn it into a classical drama. Even though this was the most successful part. Samuel (Brodie-Sangster) and Beckett (Luke Kleintank) are two brothers whose daily task consists of hiding the little bit of money they own for their father Warren (Sebastian Roché). The latter is a gambling alcoholic who apparently quoted Shakespeare somewhere on a stage in the past. And that's what Samuel has to do at street corners. He holds a Shakespearean monologue, while his brother deprives the bystanders of their wallets and other valuables. When it turns out that Warren owes a rather large amount of money to a loan shark, Beckett tries to solve this problem with help of his old friend Little Larry (Jordan Dunn). And as this second fact evolves, the level of this film goes downwards and culminates in a horrible, clumsy denouement. The moment Ms. Rose (Rebecca Romijn), the breathtaking handsome mother of Little Larry, opposes Donny, I expected the worst already. This fragment felt so amateurish and implausible. And indeed, the follow-up was nothing to write home about. To think that the run up to this ending was so much better. The portrayed family drama was fascinating to watch. Especially the brilliant interaction between father and sons. The way Samuel and Beckett try to make ends meet and how they are instructed by their father to scrape together the much needed cash, which Warren spends at the gambling table after wards. But unfortunately this is ruined by irritating futilities and stupidities. At some point you even forget where the title of the movie is related to and the cartoon character "Phantom Halo" seems to be nothing more than a fait diverse. Out of nowhere a fingertip-chopping Chinese girl appears (after which I was wondering what the punishment would be when stealing her fathers car). And although Little Larry was repeatedly warned by Donny not to deceive him, after a while he's unabashedly driving around together with Beckett with a glitzy Bentley. That was a bit shortsighted, not to say plain stupid. The brief affair with Ms. Rose was totally irrelevant. And apparently they tried to finish it in a Tarantino way. But this attempt looks amateurish and rather fake. Briefly and concisely: this movie is an accumulation of unfinished ideas. More reviews here : http://bit.ly/1KIdQMT Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Tirdad Derakhshani Philadelphia Inquirer Messy and confused, the film is a mishmash of tropes from Shakespeare, heist movies, family melodrama, and romance novels hastily thrown together. Rated: 1.5/4 Jun 19, 2015 Full Review Tom Long Detroit News None of it is convincing in the least, although the actors do as much as they can. "Phantom Halo" ends up feeling like a mash-up of two many other mediocre films. Rated: D+ Jun 19, 2015 Full Review Helen T. Verongos New York Times A dark, satisfying work that can be forgiven for the moments it succumbs to Hollywood convention. Jun 19, 2015 Full Review Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue All of the disparate ideas and visual conceits never adds up to much in terms of emotional payoff. Jul 1, 2015 Full Review David Noh Film Journal International This far too busy stew of various bad ideas, peppered with ridiculously overt violence, never seems to quite decide what it wants to be. Jun 18, 2015 Full Review Dann Gire Chicago Daily Herald Despite the cast's obvious dedicated efforts, Bogdanovich curiously studies her characters at clinical distances, preferring to observe them rather than be them. Rated: 2/4 Jun 18, 2015 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A scheme for making easy money goes awry when a young man (Luke Kleintank) turns to counterfeiting to repay his father's (Sebastian Roché) debts.
      Director
      Antonia Bogdanovich
      Producer
      Peter Bogdanovich
      Screenwriter
      Antonia Bogdanovich, Anne Heffron
      Distributor
      ARC Entertainment
      Rating
      R (Brief Sexuality|Violence|Language)
      Genre
      Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jun 19, 2015, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jun 6, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 29m