El incidente (2014) Reviews

• Amazing

  mat123-12017-03-24

  I cannot understand the negative reviews. Acting? Photography? Really? Is that your serious concern about this awesome piece of art? This is not a film to watch worried about technique, nor about entertainment. This is a movie to think, to be surprised and intrigued. Its a huge mindf**k puzzle, in an intense and crazy parallel dimension - at the real world. A sci-fi without space ships, just regular persons and regular scenery, through a very not regular story. Do yourself a favor and watch this film without trying to be an egocentric movie critic, but a true fan of art and different angles. Then you can go back to your comfortable "I saw this already" kind of movie. And no, nobody is paying me a penny to review it. Believe me, I work at a quality control enterprise for video-on-demand platforms, I watch all kinds of movies everyday, but this stands out.

• Big Disappointment

  dpc-713542015-09-17

  The plot and the idea behind this movie seems interesting enough to consider watching it, an original concept that might not come up often (specially for a Mexican movie). It all starts with big expectations, however, it takes no more than the first 10 minutes to realize that this film will not live up to expectations. The acting is utterly horrible, there is not a single character in this movie with whom you can relate to or even feel some empathy for. The dialogs are forced and their over use of swearing lets you know immediately that this is a normal Mexican movie in which there is no need for good dialogs as long as you have enough nonsense swearing. Be aware that the main actresses is known only for her soap opera appearances, which are by definition, not great places to find good actresses. The film feels very claustrophobic (which I imagine was on purpose) but rather than being gripped by the plot it just provokes the spectator the need to find a way out of the cinema room. As if the acting was not enough to give you headaches then there are the sound effects and music. The sound effects feel "raw" (and by raw I mean there seems that no post production or sound mixing was made at all). The dialogs feel intrusive and the whinings and screams are just unbearable. The music is like a copy cat from Lost and other suspense series. This movie has received positive reviews in the independent media in Mexico which was one of the reasons for me to watch it. However, after watching it seems to me that the reviews were made by the filmmaker's friends. Have a look at IMDb review dates for this movie and if you're intelligent enough you'll realize that most of the "overwhelmingly positive" reviews were made months ago, previous to the commercial release of the movie, and by users that coincidentally or not, registered 10 or so months ago. It looks to me that they tried (and sadly, achieved) to generate great expectations for this movie. Watch it at your own risk but bear in mind that it is not material for a cult movie and much less the director (Isaac Izban) is the next Stephen King. This movie is a great idea awfully executed and with even poorer acting quality. It is 90 minutes of torture with 10 minutes in which they quite literally explain the whole movie. Next time the director should be kind enough to save 90 minutes of their audience's time and shoot a short movie instead.

• Do not waste your time

  dgpuentec2015-09-23

  First, let's start with the obvious fact that at least 5 of the current reviews in IMDb were paid or at least made by the filmmaker's friends, quote: "His cinematography has been compared to Kubrick"... LOL, and: "Is this world ready for Isaac Ezban?"... LOL There is no magnificence in this movie, the cinematography looks like it was made by students (I've seen much better short films from guys studying to be filmmakers). Then there's the acting! it's so bad that it should be used as an example of what good acting is not. This film is so pretentious that the first reaction I got was to find the nearest emergency exit. It tries so hard to teach us something that it fails miserably, believe me, the only teaching you will find in this film is that time indeed is precious and you will regret having spent 100 minutes of your life watching this piece of garbage.

• Spoiled in every possible way

  carlosalmanza2015-09-20

  Just not quite what I'd call a " movie", less to say a masterpiece. Plain wrong from every possible angle. To begin with the acting (if you can call THAT acting), to the script, to the dialogues, to plot loopholing from minute four and a whole bunch of etceteras. What was everybody involved in this movie thinking? I demand respect to the audience whatever the movie is about, the thing is that this piece just doesn't makes sense, and once you get the so called explanation for the Moebius strip rip-off, it turns out to be the most unjustified turn of events. Definitely don't waste your time. And Mr. So-called-director-of-this: be more respectful of your audience.

• DO NOT WATCH!! Paid reviews and overrated

  adrianita-756162015-09-16

  First of all, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury and Julio Cortazar would die again if they saw their names as references for inspiration and influences for this film. The acting was awful, as they say in the trivia section the casting was not conventional and was based only on the director's personal whims, that being said, be prepared to endure minutes of Nailea Norvind's high pitch whining with no reason other than put you through the same hell I imagine the director was trying to portray in the film, if that was the objective well, good job!! you made it. This film seems to me as big on marketing and very low on quality, the cinematography is awful and the sound effects and music are even worse, there are short films that tell stories much richer than this and they manage to do it in under 15 minutes rather than 100 minutes of pure torture. Do not waste your time with this "cult" film, it is more about marketing and paid reviews than on real quality and originality. Avoid this film at all cost.