![]() ![]() Jillian and Sarah (Tania Raymonde and Anna Kendrick) are teenaged best friends. ![]() The result is a promising beginning, an anticipatory middle and a disappointing ending. Writer/director Nathan Hope came up with a lot of nice ancillary pieces and then assembled them around an empty core. It's like a Nancy Drew Mystery without a mystery but with a serial killer. Well-made, but still pretty worthless and unexciting.Įlsewhere is a middling little concoction that's one or two ingredients away from being really good. No, nobody would notice THOSE being carried through a completely dark cornfield at night, would they? And who would ever notice the bright light coming form the completely unlit barn when the kids finally get there? Unfortunately, this is typical of the writing in this film. Since they want to be stealthy, they (of course) bring along fluorescent tube lanterns. Finally, towards the end of the movie, you get a scene which ought to be subtitled "Scriptwriters Got Tired Here" or "Director Couldn't Figure Out How to Film This the Right Way." Two teens try to sneak up on a farmhouse where a (potential) bad guy is sleeping by creeping through a cornfield. The typical (and stereotyped) red herrings abound. The cell phone texting angle has been done many times before and much better, so no tension there. One girl disappears and, five years later, so does another one. Contrary to what you might expect from the tag lines, there isn't any "string" of mysterious disappearances. There is very little tension in the movie, except for the few action sequences. Trust me, you'll pick out the bad guy within the first few minutes of the movie. But the story and script are just awful.retreads of thrillers done hundreds of times before. ![]() The whole movie is definitely not low-budget in appearance or finish. (Keep your eye on the "weird' girl.) The production values are quite good, with interesting, but not impressive, cinematography. The actresses (and actors) are cute and do a decent job. "Elsewhere" falls into the latter category. It seems like I spend half my time watching poorly-produced and horribly-acted movies with good stories and ideas, and the other half watching well-produced movies with zero imagination and stock story lines. ![]()
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