I've now seen it, yep...I've now seen it.
If I hadn't been informed that there would be a twist at the end (although I was given no details) I wouldv'e been pissed, at this moment I am merely annoyed.
This reminds me of the forgotten Halle Berry thriller "The Rich Man's Wife"; although "Haute Tension" is far more engaging than that pile of shit, it suffers from the same flaw.
There is a twist at the end of "The Rich Man's Wife", and it is ridiculous, ridiculous because it is gives you no option to play back the events in your head to unlock the details of a fine tuned mystery. It is simply there to make the previous 1hr 1/2 or 2hrs interesting, to make itself look intelligent...it fails.
Chewers who enjoyed the film were correct, it is a pretty solid, and trim little thriller; nasty in all the right places and tense in when it needs to be, it's promising.
The opening of the film gave me two guesses as to what the "twist" was, I leaned towards what ended up being correct, but I hoped it would be neither.
After the big reveal, I got a mental picture of director Aja in my head and I let him know how I felt at the moment: FUCK YOOOOUUUUU!!!!
You'd think that people would stop playing that angle, you'd think that writers/directors would just leave it alone, but I guess they're going w/ the logic "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Is it broke Monsieur Aja, very fucking broke.
The ending of "Haute Tension" leaves you with a shattered jigsaw puzzle of continuity (explain away the truck please), it gives you little to no option for "playback". Aja drops the finale in your lap and says "Fuck it, you deal with, I can't be bothered!"
It's lazy, and insulting, and if the majority of the film wasn't as well packaged as it is, I'd quickly tell Aja to go fuck himself.
See "Haute Tension" to learn something about making a good horror film (something Americans have primarily forgotten) but turn it off at the 75-78min mark.
If I hadn't been informed that there would be a twist at the end (although I was given no details) I wouldv'e been pissed, at this moment I am merely annoyed.
This reminds me of the forgotten Halle Berry thriller "The Rich Man's Wife"; although "Haute Tension" is far more engaging than that pile of shit, it suffers from the same flaw.
There is a twist at the end of "The Rich Man's Wife", and it is ridiculous, ridiculous because it is gives you no option to play back the events in your head to unlock the details of a fine tuned mystery. It is simply there to make the previous 1hr 1/2 or 2hrs interesting, to make itself look intelligent...it fails.
Chewers who enjoyed the film were correct, it is a pretty solid, and trim little thriller; nasty in all the right places and tense in when it needs to be, it's promising.
The opening of the film gave me two guesses as to what the "twist" was, I leaned towards what ended up being correct, but I hoped it would be neither.
After the big reveal, I got a mental picture of director Aja in my head and I let him know how I felt at the moment: FUCK YOOOOUUUUU!!!!
You'd think that people would stop playing that angle, you'd think that writers/directors would just leave it alone, but I guess they're going w/ the logic "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Is it broke Monsieur Aja, very fucking broke.
The ending of "Haute Tension" leaves you with a shattered jigsaw puzzle of continuity (explain away the truck please), it gives you little to no option for "playback". Aja drops the finale in your lap and says "Fuck it, you deal with, I can't be bothered!"
It's lazy, and insulting, and if the majority of the film wasn't as well packaged as it is, I'd quickly tell Aja to go fuck himself.
See "Haute Tension" to learn something about making a good horror film (something Americans have primarily forgotten) but turn it off at the 75-78min mark.
