Wednesday 2 May 2012

The Ungodly (2007)

Dir: Thomas Dunn

Wes Bentley stars as a down-on-his-luck documentary maker who decides to follow a serial killer (played by co-writer Mark Borkowski) around New York and, uh, find the human behind the monster? Maybe? It's never entirely clear just what prompted this. However, we're asked to draw awkward, questionable paralells between Bentley's addiction to drugs and Borkowski's addiction to murder and just buy into the two men being pretty much star-crossed as a result. There are one or two nice ideas here and the leads work hard with the material but it's too muddled to ever fully engage. Unfavourable mental comparisons to "Man Bites Dog" do it even fewer favours. This probably isn't a film I'd recommend unless you're particularly in thrall to Wes Bentley's beard. *1/2

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