Club members also get access to our members-only section on RogerEbert. Perhaps there is a way of taking all of the various story points of the sort on display here and transforming them into a convincing narrative but that has not happened here. Cast: Ellen Page , Amy Seimetz , Kate Mara , Beau Knapp , Elias Koteas , Brian Geraghty Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer Genres: , Production Co: Killer Films Distributors: Lionsgate. The visual effects are consistently the strongest part of Dark Fate. What is especially frustrating in the case of this film is that it is just good enough at times to suggest what might have been accomplished with a more plausible screenplay. Page, as ever, scores with the script's waspish wit, but there's an emotional depth here, too, adding an affecting undertow to a poised, thoughtful and ideologically even-handed piece of storytelling. Alas, things prove to be not that simple after all.
Advertisement Despite the enormous gulf between them on this particular issue, there is an undeniable spark between them that continues on as they meet up at various stops on the execution circuit and chatting online before the relationship inevitably, if secretly, blooms into a full-blown romance. As a result, it quickly becomes a crashingly obvious right down to actually naming one of the characters Mercy, a move so remarkably unsubtle that the film itself actually winds up commenting on it and dramatically implausible work that cannot even be saved by the contributions of such talented actresses as Page, Mara and Seimetz. It eventually transpires that Mercy may not have been completely forthcoming regarding certain aspects of her life. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie never comes close to approximating the sheer audaciousness of this bit, instead squandering it on a well-meaning but increasingly contrived melodrama that is hardly believable or meaningful. Making her American debut, Israeli director Shalom-Ezer demonstrates a good eye and a nice feel for character work that eventually gets subsumed beneath all the murky melodrama and emotional cop-outs.
Instead, the narrative feels more like a checklist than anything else, and contains too many scenes that exist simply to move the story along even though doing so requires the characters to act in sometimes befuddling ways. You will receive a weekly newsletter full of movie-related tidbits, articles, trailers, even the occasional streamable movie. Release Date: R 1 hr 48 min Plot Summary The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause. . It turns out that they are anti-death penalty activists who travel to protest at the sites of imminent executions in opposition to the pro-death penalty forces that have also turned out. Ironically, it is a film that could actually unite people on both sides of the death penalty issue, nearly all of whom will probably come away from it thinking that it is a film with a interesting premise that really deserved, no pun intended, a much better execution.
It's at one of these gatherings that she encounters lawyer Kate Mara among the supporters of the death penalty, but a certain spark between them proves difficult to resist. The Ebert Club is our hand-picked selection of content for Ebert fans. There's quite an involved background here, which the film patiently reveals, delivering an ultimately touching account of how the small-town stigma surrounding same-sex relationships only makes things tougher for those in embattled circumstances. As the story opens, we see Lucy on what appears to be a road trip in a dilapidated Winnebago with her older sister Martha and much younger brother Benjamin. .
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