Soul Survivors (2001)
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Cassie and Sean seem to have everything right going for them: a good relationship, aspirations for careers and great friends. However their best friend, Matt, is Cassie’s ex and one night as she’s about to ditch both Matt & Sean, Matt coerces a kiss from her lips. This angers Sean and soon leads to a car accident. Sean is dead and Cassie can’t get over this fact. Even when Matt and his girlfriend Annabelle, console her she’s always seeing Sean...oh and 2 weird guys and a lesbian chick. Soon Cassie becomes unable to distinguish reality from insanity and she’s clearly traipse between both worlds. Will she figure out what is going on and get stable or end up in an institution?
Overall: Many, many people have issues with this film and all I have to say is “Jacob’s Ladder.” This is a rip-off of that film and basically takes the plot and makes the victim a 22 year old girl. The film screams “Jacob’s Ladder” throughout the film and what finally gave the film away was when Sean and Cassie are in the woods. That gave it away right there so the rest of the film I paid attention to the hints and believe me, they exist. By itself the film is just ok. They don’t focus much on decrying drinking and driving as a bad thing to do and if anything they to focus so much on the “twist”, they forget the rest of the film. 51 minutes it takes to introduce Cassie as a swimmer...u see her sign up for the team but then forget this until the 51 minute mark...u could have skipped this altogether and worked in her visions of Sean without the fake swimming. It really reeked of editing, but the “killer Cut” on DVD with extended & deleted scenes added nothing to the brief plot element story. The film spent more time showing us Wes Bentley’s ass than dealing with the swimming. And how is it that Annabelle sees her man cheating on her with Cassie then moments later is cheering on both of the "cheaters" during the swimming meet? I thought she’d be slightly more pissed off. And doesn’t Cassie’s mom ever answer the damn phone? Even the extra scenes have more voice mail messages! The deleted scenes however were interesting for what it did cut out…and trust me they should have been. The plot elements of Sean’s funeral and Cassie being pregnant leant nothing to the story and would only serve to have more plots avenues that wouldn’t be followed up on. Comparison: Jacob’s Ladder meets Urban Legend 2 |
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