Review: Straight into Darkness
A low budget war movie, trying to be a artie kinda movie, currently doing its round at selected film festivals and somewhere being released direct to DVD. Taking place towards the end of WWII, we follow two American deserter soldiers somewhere in Western Europe. From the start, you’ll get a gray-ish canvas to elevate the gritty atmosphere. Mixed in, too often, are oversaturated flashback scenes adding absolutely nothing to the slow moving story. Boredom sets in the first quarter to half an hour. As the adventure continues, we also hear voice-over flashback loops, again, WAY too often.
Another constant irritating factor is the musical score, and as the characters in the movie turn into a bit of psychos, so do you.
Written and directed by Jeff Burr, he’s better off writing and directing the usual low budget horror flicks that nobody will ever see (with self-explanatory titles like The Demons 5 and Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings).5-.