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A thriller about a group of friends who go hunting in the woods and wind up being stalked by a sniper. Trigger Man plays with naturalism, allows time to pass between passivity and the wait during the hunt, to finally give free rein to action. Filmed with an incisive, restless digital camera, Trigger Man seems like the daytime opposite of The Blair Witch Project: a movie whose tension increases with realism. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Recensie (1)
So I decided to go through the entire filmography of Ti West, who brought attention to himself with the excellent The House of the Devil. Trigger Man has a fairly good score on Rotten Tomatoes, an awful one in IMDB, and has attracted no interest in Filmbooster. It’s an interesting, but very ungratifying film. Even though I can appreciate the interesting execution of the second half, when we observe the entire situation through the eyes of one person (in real time, i.e. slow, there’s plenty of time to generate tension), I can’t appreciate the first half. The first unpleasant thing doesn’t happen until almost the fortieth minute, before that, there’s nothing! It’s just boring, and the argument that it’s intentional doesn’t change anything.
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