Director: Randy Moore
Starring: Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez, Jack Dalton, Annet Mahendru
Rating: Unrated
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
Initial Reaction:
"Escape from Tomorrow" has been a highly anticipated film amongst a lot of different film circles. The film debuted at Sundance 2013 to much acclaim as the first time film maker, Randy Moore filmed this movie undercover at Disney Land without permission. The whole gimmick of this film showing the dark side of Disney Land intrigued a lot people as it felt like real independent film making which has slowly been becoming more mainstream. When the film began screening, people began comparing it to David Lynch in the vein of the thrilling noir suspense, and after seeing the film it is one the furthest things from David Lynch. This film was such a disappointment as the film features no real plot and terrible acting, as the only reason this film isn't an F, is because the directing of the film is ambitious and creative, but sadly by the end even the directing falls apart.
"Escape from Tomorrow" has been a highly anticipated film amongst a lot of different film circles. The film debuted at Sundance 2013 to much acclaim as the first time film maker, Randy Moore filmed this movie undercover at Disney Land without permission. The whole gimmick of this film showing the dark side of Disney Land intrigued a lot people as it felt like real independent film making which has slowly been becoming more mainstream. When the film began screening, people began comparing it to David Lynch in the vein of the thrilling noir suspense, and after seeing the film it is one the furthest things from David Lynch. This film was such a disappointment as the film features no real plot and terrible acting, as the only reason this film isn't an F, is because the directing of the film is ambitious and creative, but sadly by the end even the directing falls apart.
Plot: (2/5)
The plot of this film relies on shock value, and trying to top that shock value increasingly through the film. Some parts of that work and some parts just felt like they wanted to shock. For 80 minutes the plot really feels to linger. I feel like they had this really good idea to show that even a place like Disney World has a dark side and didn't really have a story to surround this idea. People have put this film in vein of great storytellers like David Lynch and it really just feels like a poor imitation of David Lynch. I believe how the film first started out with just the family experiencing weird things at Disney World was better and the weirder and more outlandish it got, the more hard it took to get into it. Maybe if this film was made as a short film it would have been better but with all the hype surrounding this I expected a better execution of this plot. There are certain things in the film like prostitution and pedophilia that just didn't need to be in the film.
The plot of this film relies on shock value, and trying to top that shock value increasingly through the film. Some parts of that work and some parts just felt like they wanted to shock. For 80 minutes the plot really feels to linger. I feel like they had this really good idea to show that even a place like Disney World has a dark side and didn't really have a story to surround this idea. People have put this film in vein of great storytellers like David Lynch and it really just feels like a poor imitation of David Lynch. I believe how the film first started out with just the family experiencing weird things at Disney World was better and the weirder and more outlandish it got, the more hard it took to get into it. Maybe if this film was made as a short film it would have been better but with all the hype surrounding this I expected a better execution of this plot. There are certain things in the film like prostitution and pedophilia that just didn't need to be in the film.
Directing: (3/5)
I give director, Randy Moore a lot of credit for filming this gorilla style. It took a lot guts and creativity to film this film the way he did. Since he dealt with a lot of filming errors filming gorilla style he had to add a black&white tint to the film and I believe it added a really nice noir tone to the film. For claiming they filmed a lot of this at Disney Land it was easy to see that a lot of parts of this film were filmed in terrible obvious green screen. It was kind of disappointing when you would see those shots come up because they look so fake that they take you out of the film.
Acting: (2.5/5)
The acting in this film is really bad. The main character is played by Roy Abramsohn, who we see all the main action from the point of view of. His character was suppose to be kind of despicable but with an added terrible performance I really didn't care about this character and was glad when he wasn't on screen. All the other characters felt fake and 2-dimensional and I'm not 100% sure if that was how they were suppose to be or not but whatever it was they weren't good. The only two actors I thought were any way good were newcomers Annet Mahandru and Danielle Safady who play the two female girls who become the main characters objects of affection. There wasn't much to the characters but they were the only two actors that I didn't think were overacting the whole time, they actually felt like real people. Overall, the film shows what happens when you don't get professional actors to be in your film. I honestly don't know what they were trying to do with the acting and characterization in this film. A lot of this film just doesn't make sense.
Replay Ability: (2.5/5)
I was really excited for this film after the 10 months of hype that proceeded it from Sundance back in January and it was such a disappointment. Outside of the ambitious film making of the director there's not to much to this film. It just added shock for the sake of added shock and in the end has no real meaning or purpose just outside of making Disney Land look scary which they failed at. People have been wondering if Disney is going to sue them for making this film and I honestly believe Disney should just let it be because; 1.) the film's not good, 2.) not acknowledging this film hurts it more than being sued as it will hurt the film tremendously as the whole gimmick of this film is filming undercover at Disney.
I was really excited for this film after the 10 months of hype that proceeded it from Sundance back in January and it was such a disappointment. Outside of the ambitious film making of the director there's not to much to this film. It just added shock for the sake of added shock and in the end has no real meaning or purpose just outside of making Disney Land look scary which they failed at. People have been wondering if Disney is going to sue them for making this film and I honestly believe Disney should just let it be because; 1.) the film's not good, 2.) not acknowledging this film hurts it more than being sued as it will hurt the film tremendously as the whole gimmick of this film is filming undercover at Disney.
FINAL GRADE: 2.5/5 (C)
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