An investigative journalist relies on questionable methods in order to expose the truth.
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zubinster from United States
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Just awful!
This is not one movie. But two entirely separate movies. One is in Spanish (with English subtitles) about a Latina woman having visions and struggling with her Latin family's heritage. The other is about Keanu sleepwalking as part of solving his partner's murder. For a long time the movie goes back and forth between these two stories without the slightest connection. Then suddenly the stories are forced to merge.
Horrible acting. Bad writing. Bad, bad direction. Everything is lousy in this film.
Movies like this one should be a must-see in all film schools. "Exposed" should serve as an example of how many people it takes to make a movie and yet it can turn out this badly.
One can see by the opening credits that there must have been six production and financing companies involved. It is inconceivable that the producers, financiers and others from those companies just put out the money, saw this movie in progress, or the premiere, and were OK with it.
Simply inconceivable.
Do not believe the "6.3" (from 146 users!!!!) rating of this movie. These are friends of producers or production crew trying to recoup their money. All lies.
Just to give you an example: "Declan Dale" is the name of the director in the credits. But "Declan Dale" is like "Alan Smithee", a name that directors use when they want not to be associated with the film.
Even the Director wants his name off of this piece of junk. That's how bad this movie is!
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tboarder-gx from Hong Kong
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This movie was incredible; incredibly bad.
Never before has someone so cleverly taken two separate stories, and ram them together with the elegance of a head-on car crash.
The overall structure of the film felt like patch-work, moving from one scene to another within a matter of 10-30 seconds. As you absorb each scene, attempting to find some correlation to the previous one, they'll whip it away from you, leaving a bitter taste in your memory that will only grow as scenes pile up. It's like waiting for a surgeon to perform a delicate operation on your loved one, and the local butcher walks through the door with his cleaver. It's painful. I was really hoping there were some subtle or underlying meanings to some of the scenes, but in the end I found myself looking to my wife for comfort and explanation, only to be met with an empty confused stare.
I never did work out what the dog death scene was all about.
It would seem as though key inspiration was drawn from student films and the familiar "patching" of loose ends. If information was missing, throw a 10 second scene to tie it up... no one will notice.
I gave it a chance, hell, I watched the whole thing, and at this point I really wish I'd stuck with my gut instinct in the first 10 minutes to hang up the gloves and just get an extra few hours of sleep.
If you plan to watch this movie, please be prepared for confusion, frustration and disbelief.
Incredible.
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(nickolas.yiannios@gmail.com) from New York City
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I'm not the type to ever leave a review on anything, unless its in a positive context, but i felt the need since there wasn't a way for me to directly respond to some of the reviews that i read. This movie is bad! Really really terrible! There is no mysterious deeper meaning, like I've been reading.
Its actually embarrassing that there are people on here who think they are some how so above every one else, so special, that they took this movie for some artistic genius, that went over all our heads. Lions Gate films gutted and re-edited this movie to focus around Keanu, when the movie wasn't supposed to.
The actual director of this movie felt so strongly about the fact that it became a piece of crap, that he took his name off the movie completely.
So instead of trying to be the next Roger Ebert, or trying to look for a deeper meaning in a movie that doesn't have any, just stop, don't, because you're misleading people into wasting 2 hours of their lives.
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Brandie Hanson from United States
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I had no idea what this movie was trying to accomplish. Honestly, I don't. I'm certain it was trying to go for cerebral, but I've seen home movies on flip phones with more coherent plot twists than this. The first hour was nothing but disjunctive cut scenes sporadically placed with no relation or relevance to each other. Most were emotional gotcha's that did nothing to move the plot forward. Someone asked about the dog scene, why stop there? Why did we even bother talking about the cop's kid? Or the hooking up with the dead partner's wife? Or the guy going around killing supposed witnesses? None of that mattered at all in this film. You could have removed all of that and it wouldn't have impacted the story in the slightest. The pieces that were relevant were edited and whittled away because once you sat through an excruciating hour of mind numbing inanity, the ending, which happen to reveal itself around the same time as the plot, was so utterly predictable.
I could not understand how anyone would want to put their name to this drivel. Then when I looked up IMDb I found this gem: "The writer/director fought to have his name legally removed from the movie." Really, you should read the trivia, it's quite telling. Basically this movie should have been 'The Machinist' meets 'Pan's Labyrinth' in regards to telling an intriguing story, but instead Lionsgate decided that garbage with a big name actor stamped on it would somehow salvage yet another overarching reach of stifling creativity.
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quincytheodore from Indonesia
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While Knock-Knock was a mishap, Keanu Reeves still carries the buzz from John Wick, so it's peculiar to see his new movie flies under the radar. It's soon apparent that "Exposed" has a rather jumbled presentation. The movie uses multi perspective style and it does try to deliver heavy subject such as abuse, but it's ultimately too broken to create any appropriate connection.
The two perspectives are too messy, as though the screenplay or editing is done sloppily. Keanu's point of view is that of noir detective, although the investigation moves so slowly and erratically. Meanwhile Ana de Armas plays as a troubled wife who might just see some apparition. From the color tone, the pace and even the script, these two stories are utterly different.
It's not to say that there's not an artistic goal in mind, it could have dealt with mature theme well, however the jarring shift is confusing to say the least. It would jump from festive vibe, to brooding case and suddenly to what seems to be psychological thriller with metaphor. This is a really odd direction and it doesn't have to be such, it feels as though the movie tries to needlessly overreach.
Both the leads perform admirably, in some instances Ana de Armas looks amiable and Keanu Reeves still has his appealing presence. However, the plot is chaotic, there would be incredibly slow development and subplots, yet it would hasten abruptly in mere minutes. The few segments from other angles don't really pan out in the grand scheme, while its intended twist is hampered by over saturation of horror genre, which is odd to see in crime drama.
This kind of sudden change is not uncommon, some thriller movies shifted to more action atmosphere for casual audience or some action flicks would be altered to accommodate more famous stars. Still, the extreme shift of tone here doesn't have any appeal instead it's only a distraction.
"Exposed" could have had a surreal depth for narrative, yet it's a just a confusing mess that barely has any charm and even that small spark is muddle with messy production.
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Tony Wigan from Australia
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I am at a loss to find an adjective to truly describe this movie. So,I'll just go with awful, really awful.
Awful patch work structure. Awful, wooden acting. Awful Direction.
Given all of the awful mentioned above, skillful editing could have saved it, however the clumsy, almost random links left the converging plot lines disjointed and just, yes, awful.
The finance and production companies, all 16 of them, should have simply made a donation to charity rather than pour money into this awful mess. Over all, this awful movie left me feeling older and in need of a shower.
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Erik P from United Kingdom
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So, the film starts effectively as a detective story with Keanu trying to find a killer. As we follow the developing story there are some odd events making the viewer wonder if this is science fiction or not. It seems at first disjointed and unusual, but then gradually towards the end we see that the focus of the story is different from that first portrayed and actually the film is about something completely different.
Appears some people didn't like this, but to me it was very original, interestingly designed and definitely worth the watch. I was not bored at any point, and indeed intrigued. I wondered whether I was going to be let down by the story, but actually the ending was far more interesting than I imagined. Good acting, especially by the female lead.
Can't say any more other than the story is not what you first expect.
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Vali Valentin from Romania
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I have just recovered the password for my IMDb account (which I didn't use to login since some time) to write how bad this movie is and that it was a total waste of time!!
I wish I read the previous reviews before watching this nonsense movie but I've made the mistake of reading only the plot which was quite interesting (but very untrue).
The story is stupid, the acting is bad and the video shots are poor. A lot of things happen with no reason and no connection to the rest of the movie, the story is half in English and half in Spanish but mixed in such a way that it becomes annoying from the beginning of the movie.
Time is precious, don't waste it on this movie!
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prdx-66993
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******* CONTAINS SPOILERS ******
First thing, this movie has less than 30minutes with Keanu Reeves on screen (but he's in the movie promotion material lol) so if you want to watch one of his movie, chose something else. That one is just USING Reeves popularity to trick the viewers and his numerous fans.
Second thing, the actress D'Armas is terrible, she doesn't know how to act and always show the same weird expression on her face in every scenes. Sad or serious, it's always the same inappropriate silly face, she need to find another job soon!!!
Third thing, it's not a professional movie, more like a student project with lot of flaws. The movie is slow, the acting is really bad and not convincing (except for Sorvino and Reeves whom are real actors with experience) nothing interesting in the multiple stories and when the final reveal happened, it's like they had to finished that mess and throw it like this in the last 15minutes...
Last, if you don't like reading subtitles, too bad because almost 80% of the movie is in Spanish. Maybe it was not even supposed to be release in English idk but it's weird they didn't advertised it like it is since the main 2 stories (the latino dude with the black gang and the abused latino girl) are in Spanish and clearly inspired and done for a latino and black audience.
Do yourself a favor if you are a Keanu Reeves or a Mira Sorvino fan, don't watch that movie, even the best actors make bad choices and that one of these.
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marksspecialgirl from Seattle
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The trailer is exciting but very misleading. The movie started well enough but quickly turned into a strangeness that defies description. Half trough it got very predictable, super weird and boring. Appeared like a low budget, indie, psycho production.
The basic story could have made a good movie, but the second half of the movie was more like an improvised 8th grade theater project without any concept. I knew exactly what will happen in the end.
What a shame, I really like Keanu Reeves, but even he could not pull this one out of the sh***.
Avoid at all costs!!!!! An evening locked up in the toilet is more enjoyable :)
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