Feed (2005)

Summary: Detective Phillip is a cyber-crime detective for Australia and he’s trying to crack down on all manners for internet crimes. But today he’s come across something deviant: obese people being fed to death, and voluntarily no less. So where’s the crime? Phillip is about to dive deep into this new fetish and trust me, you’ll be sickened by what he finds!           Overall: The trouble with a film like this, is there is soooo much I can criticize that by the end of my review, you’ll think I hated it. I didn’t. I actually found the subject quite unique, the final product watchable and interesting. But...there are so many problems here, that make you just think “Man…if they only took more time with this film.”           So let me start with some of the obvious problems. One of which is the scenes of computer tracing, computer hacking, etc. Let me say...if catching bad porno-pirates were this easy...there’d be no bad guys out there. Our intrepid detective spends no more than a few minutes before he is able to pinpoint and catch our bad guy, with ease no less. Hell, I’d be scared to surf “yahoo photos” if nabbing people with this easy. I think the film doesn’t want to get caught up in a story of solely tracking down the bad guys. That’s not the point. The point was getting the detective to the bad guys’ home. But they sorta skipped way too many steps in getting him there.           Another problem was the forgotten storylines. The film starts with the infamous story of a man being cut up and having his body parts fed to himself and others. However the film never follows up on this at all…and never truly connects it to our main plotline. In addition, the detective is removed from his case because of “kiddie-porn” investigations and what emotional damage he suffered trying to catch the bad guys...but when the film starts with the cannibalism, again that sort got conflicted with each other.           The film also spends a lot of time showing the hell that the Detective and his girlfriend have sexually and emotionally...and yet once the film hits the 45 minute mark, everything is forgotten about. And when our protagonist calls back to home for info on our bad guy, his partner at the police agency is constantly warning him to go home, and yet we never see any reason why he should. No scenes of impending firings, discipline, etc. We lost all connections once the detective gets to America, that anything in Australia means anything anymore. In fact...the only abuses are happening in America...not Australia. So why is this cyber-cop caring in the first place?           And...the ending...or should I say the 2nd half of the film. OMG...does this just take forever?? The finale just drags on, and on, and on and on. One scene has him, injured, lying on a bed with a “gainer.” Our bad guy hovers over them with a gun, he goes to hug the victim, places the gun to the side. And then literally for the next 3 minutes, we have shots of the gun, the detective, gun, detective, gun, detective, etc. before he ever makes a move for it. You’re practically screaming at the camera to just “grab the damn thing already.” And yet the film continues to crawl and crawl and crawl. Ugh!!!           Finally...we have the alternate ending. And thank God that was not used. Where the hell did that idea come from? Yes, it finally address the lost characters in Australia but then it makes it even more unexplained with what they were even doing and why. And why they waited so long. Just thank your stars the film ended as it did. Which although was sorta “different,” still wasn’t the most appropriate way for the film to end. But it sure was better than the alternative.           Ok...there are some good parts to the film. Really! The storyline sure is different. It’s sorta topical because we do get a good sense of scripture, politics and discussion by our bad guy. He spends much of the film trying to attack the idea of skinny women being perfect. So we have some new stuff. We have some nice ideas. And the whole fight between the detective’s girl and himself, at the beginning was a bit of a nice storyline, before it went off the reservation entirely and fell apart. But the film is worth a viewing...it really isn’t all bad as a I portray it. But there are problems. And those problems keep it from being a really good film. But go watch it one time.           Comparison: Seven meets Fear Dot Com

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