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Freeze Frame

UK/Ireland 2004
produced by
Michael Casey, Brendan McCarthy (executive), Martha O'Neill (executive) for Parallel World Productions, Wildfire Films
directed by John Simpson
starring Lee Evans, Sean McGinley, Ian McNeice, Colin Salmon, Rachael Stirling, Rachel O'Riordan, Andrew Wilson, Andrea Grimason, Martin McSharry, Gabriella Henriette, Emily Anthony, Hawk Younkins
written by John Simpson, music by Debbie Wiseman, special effects by Paul McGuinness

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Ten years ago, Sean Veil (Lee Evans) was accused of the murder of a family, and he was only not convicted because of a formality ... thing is, he didn't do it either, and only became a suspect because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and according to profiler Seger (Ian McNeice), his profile fitted that of a killer 100%. Since then, Veil has been filming every move he made 24/7, just to make sure he can never be accused of another murder again, as he presumes they are still out there to get him ... and they are, too, Seger still tries to pin the 10 year old murders on him, and so does detective Emerick (Sean McGinley), the arresting officer from back then. Eventually, Veil finds an unlikely ally though, Katie (Rachael Stirling), the sister/daughter of Veil's supposed victims, who's pretty much the only person in this world to believe he's innocent. Too late though it seems, as suddenly detective Emerick comes up with a five year old murder he wants to pin on Veil, and weirdly enough, the tapes concerning the time of the murder are gone from his meticulous archives. Veil manages to give the police the slip, and he buys himself just enough time to fake the tapes showing his whereabouts five years ago - but when he shows these to the police, the fake's soon uncovered, and he is accused of having murdered proviler Seger just the other day ... but forging the tapes eventually leads to his release, because it's soon proven that he made these tapes exactly when Seger was murdered ...

Back home, Veil finds Seger very much alive but tied to a chair, and Katie threatening Seger because she believes he has killed her folks, having found the murder weapon among his things. Finally, Seger reveals the truth: He didn't kill Katie's family, Katie's dad did, and he knew that all along, but couldn't admit to it because back in the day, it would have cost him his reputation if anyone else but Veil was the culprit. Now Katie goes bonkers, shoots Seger, then Emerick who just stops by (and who really believed Veil was the guilty party), then herself - but not before burning all of Veil's tapes on which Seger reveals her father is the actual killer ... and when the police arrives, it looks they have finally pinned him for a triple murder (none of which he has committed) - until he reveals he hasn't only recorded the whole incident on webcam but also sent a copy of it to the newspapers.

Finally, Veil's name is cleared, but will he ever be able to stop recording himself?

 


Considering its basic concept, this is a clever, even fascinating paranoia thriller, nevertheless it is also far from a perfect film: On a narrative level, it contains a few too many plotholes to remain convincing throughout, even if some of them are cleverly disguised and only reveal themselves retrospectively, on a directorial level, it6 is tried a bit too hard to at the same time look cool and glossy and make the film's point again and again - the point being there's a man who films himself all of the time - to an extent where it gets ridiculous, and actingwise, Rachael Stirling's rather central performance is at times so hammy it's totally losing me. That all said, Freeze Frame is still not a bad film, just far from perfect and not even as good as it could have been.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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