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I.C.U.
Australia 2009
produced by
Aash Aaron, Carlos Alperin, Toni Aaron (executive), Kieran Fitzsimmons (executive), Matt Flannagan (executive), Nick Glorie (executive), Dustin Gray (executive), Linda Sumberg (executive) for Galloping Films
directed by Aash Aaron
starring Margot Robbie, Christian Radford, James Dean (II), Matt Flannagan, Kane Sarota, Anna Lisa Horton, Aash Aaron
written by Aash Aaron, music by Kit Sivyer
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Divorced dad (Matt Flannagan) gets to spend some quality time with his
kids (Margot Robbie, Christian Radford) and his son's best friend (James
Dean - definitely not the James Dean), who are dropped off at his
doorstep for a few days - but then he is called away on a job (he's a
cop), leaving the kids with nothing to do ... so they start to test his
surveillance equipment, spying in on the neighbours - and eventually they
stumble upon a neighbour (Kane Sarota) who gets visits from hookers all
the time, but they never seem to leave. When the kids catch on cam how
mister neighbour gets violent towards one of the hookers and want to tell
it to dad, dad gets angry and locks them in - and tells the neighbour hid
kids are spying on him on top of that. The evil neighbour soon shows up at
dad's place once dad's out and tries to kill the kids ... when dad
shows up, and he and the baddie get in a fight - but not because the
villain wanted to kill his kids but because he was supposed to wait to do
so until mom (Anna Lisa Horton) shows up as well, because he's a contract
killer hired by dad. Eventually, Mr dad shoots Mr neighbour, then wants to
kill the kids himself with Mr neighbour's weapon ... which is when mom
shows up and kills him ... Oh boy, what a silly film! It
starts out like a post-modern take on Hitchcock's Rear Window, but
replacing all of that movie's comments on voyeurism with supposedly trendy
reality TV aesthetics and videoclip-style montages that have no narrative
function whatsoever. Eventually though, the filmmaker seems to get tired of retelling
Hitchcock's tale (which has been retold a few times too often anyways),
but then he fills up the finale with unlikely plottwist after silly
surprise plot device and thus only turns the story from bad to worse. That Matt
Flannagan totally and unnecessarily hams up his role until it becomes a
caricature, and of the kids only Margot Robbie shows any genuine acting
skills doesn't help one bit either. A total waste of time!
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