![]() “This movie, given the time, effort and coordination by talented individuals would have come across as less wanna-be blockbuster and more of a suspenseful thriller. You first need to be competent before you can be fantastic.īefore I came to the university, I wrote this review on my IMDB account when I was nineteen: This film was screwed the minute that it was conceived. To the reader who may or may not make films in the future, if you have the choice of telling a story, any type of story, but especially if its big-concept, and you’re not properly prepared to making it competently, DO NOT MAKE IT. I don’t want to be too mean to the co-writer of Redline, Tara Stone, as this was her first time at screenwriting, but this is just bad.Įven though the film was made for basically nothing, and was basically made in the backstage of my school, it does have an impressive cast, Nicole Gale Anderson (of Jonas Brothers fame), as stated before, and John Billingsly (from 2012).īut this doesn’t save it from the production value of the film. The only people that I can think of making something that engaging for that little is Darren Aronofsky with Pi and Shane Carruth with Primer.īoth men made compelling, cerebral dramas for significantly less. It’s hard to make something compelling on a budget of less than 200,000 dollars. All Hitchcock-y with its use of a literal ticking clock. Great way to set things up right? It’s the textbook example of how to create suspense. They have only a few short hours until the second bomb goes off. ![]() The group of survivors realize that there is a second bomb ticking, and that the perpetrator is still alive, and among them. The film follows Tori (Played by Nicole Gale Anderson) as she is thrown into a fight for her life and lives of her fellow passengers, when a bomb goes off in a Los Angeles subway. So what did they produce? A Hallmark quality action flick. A student even wrote the screenplay, originally envisioning on making a World War II flick, but after deliberation with the staff, they turned it into a terror threat onboard a train. Kids would skip class to get more experience on set. Most of the professors worked as either producers, cameramen, or something of the like. From what I heard from those who worked on it, this was a big deal. A way to both put the school on the map, as well as be a teaching experience for its student. What is this literal train wreck about? Well, first and foremost, the project began as a “real world experience” for film students at the university. ![]() The film represented everything that people hate about Hollywood: it was cheap, lazy, and atrociously, insultingly, boring. Frankly, the film is a disaster, but figurately and metaphorically. Redline was the first piece of media that introduced me to the school. I have been attending John Paul the Great Catholic University since 2019. ![]()
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