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REVIEW: REPLAY
Friday | October 05th, 2007 | 3:27 pm | Posted by admin | 1 Comment
REPLAY (2006) Written and directed by Ramiro Hernandez
From director/writer Ramiro Hernandez (40 SECONDS, MOMENTOS EN TIEMPO), comes REPLAY, a cautionary tale of 2 young girls messing with something a great deal more powerful than themselves. Kylie (Emily Argenti) and Donna (Nicole Richards) immerse themselves in a Beta version of a virtual reality game discarded by Donna’s father, a Naval officer. Having deemed the game unfit for release and failing to reason with his boss that it must go back to formula stage due to, “too many variables”, Dad’s boss hands development over to another programmer out of frustration and desperation to complete the system. Dad chucks the disc – with the warning, “classified: do not run” - in the trash, where Donna quickly retrieves it and begins playing it with her friend Kylie. Once in the game, the two girls innocently play cards and chat waiting for the action to begin. What appears to be a knife-wielding Marcel Marceau commences the stalk.
The acting itself is a bit stiff, but that’s sometimes to be expected in the indie realm. The kids actually deliver the best acting whereas the adult characters are quite rigid and borderline over-the-top. All in all, a very enjoyable film. I’m very interested in watching for other releases from Fandango if they are as potent as this little number was.
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