I.T.
Pierce Brosnan’s post James Bond career has been as lacklustre as the one before he assumed the mantle of the world’s most famous spy. Aside from the critically acclaimed Love is All You Need – one I haven’t seen – there has not be much else of note. I was one of the few to enjoy Survivor in 2015, though his contribution to that was negligible.
His latest film, I.T., had a simultaneous cinema and on-demand release and it really is typical straight-to-video fodder, despite the talented cast and high production values. Brosnan plays Mike Regan, a company owner who gets one of his I.T. guys (Patrick, Jason Barry) to do some work at his house. When Patrick starts to get too friendly with Mike’s beautiful daughter Kaitlyn (Stefanie Scott), Mike warns him off, but Patrick becomes obsessed with Kaitlyn and starts stalking her.
I kept waiting for some sort of twist but that did not come. The film is utterly predictable and really not very interesting with performances that are okay but not really notable. Anna Friel is wasted as Mike’s wife, and a subplot involving her health goes nowhere.
Rating: 4 out of 10
The Void
A police officer finds a man injured and bleeding in the road. He rushes him to the nearest hospital – one in the process of closing – which has just a handful of patients and a skeleton staff present. Outside the hospital, mysterious cloaked figures start to assemble.
That makes for a great set-up for a horror film and I was looking forward to a cross between Halloween 2 and Assault on Precinct 13. My expectations were soon dashed though as, instead, it starts to go down the creature-feature route. That was something I was prepared to go with but then the film starts to fall apart. It gets messy, both in terms of the gore involved and the convoluted story line that tries to shoe-horn way too many different elements in.
In the end, it almost becomes unwatchable.
Rating: 3 out of 10