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It might be the political scandal of the year, during a routine traffic
check, DA Lieverman (Larry Fessenden) and officer Meyers (Rich Vience)
shoot each other dead, and especially since the actual causes for this are
initially unclear and the offier's bodycam footage is not released to the
public, conspiracy theories are blossoming left and right - and TV
reporter Tim (Zachary Booth) sees the chance of his life when he receives
an exclusive offer to get his hands on the footage. But it's not acutally
him who makes a story out of what he's promised but his editor Jake (Eric
Tabach), who has ambitions to get into actual reporting rather than just
editing himself, and thus with the exclusive footage goes down a rabbit
hole to find out what has really happened - and soon finds out this was
anything but a chance shoot-out between a drunk and a cop but a political
assassination. But his own ambitions seem to blind him to the fact that
there might be a powerful party out there who just doesn't want him to
find out the actual truth behind things ... Sure, this movie
takes quite a few hints from Brian De Palma's Blow Out, and the
ending is, as is often with paranoia thrillers, somewhat predictable - but
that said, this is a very fine piece of suspense cinema, and maybe even
because one can figure what the story will end in, just adding to the
tension of the film's protagonist piecing together the pieces due to its
presumed fatality. And in today's cinematic landscape one has to give
credit to the director for not making this a found footage movie (thouch
there are definite elements) but finding an actual cinematic language. And
Eric Talbach gives a very relatable performance to make this feel real -
and a very cool piece of genre cinema at that.
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