Stillwater

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The college bugs go on a trip and some weird guests show up. When the sun rises and foul play is discovered, the whodunnit ensues - but it's mutilated by a terrible ending.

This movie started well. I went in knowing nothing about it, and the opener left me feeling positive. It felt like huge names were going to pop up on the screen, but then when every name was unheard of, by me at least, I was surprised, because it felt too professional for unknowns. It's rare that a movie full of unknowns entertains me, but it does happen occasionally, and this looked promising. Right up until the morning after. Ok, so up until the end of day one, there were a few moments here and there which made me wince, some of the acting, some of the script, some of the direction was... off, unnatural, amateurish. But a decent scene had been set, most of the actors seemed to have some skill in their craft, and I was looking forward to seeing where this will go. But then the morning after happened. Only about two or three of the characters seemed anywhere near realistic. It felt like Hollywood had left the building and taken all their staff with them. It seemed that no one was directing anyone. It felt like day one rehearsals. It looked like actors had no idea where to go or what to do, other than throwing out their lines, which seemed like they were written by a ten year old, they just looked awkward. Especially bad was the marine. He had one expression, and it never changed! He was a caricature marine with no realism whatsoever. I'm fairly sure that every line he threw out was taken directly from the directors collection of 80s war movies. It was like he had taken over the movie and every other actor was trying to work around him, and his one expression, and his arms that seem to have had a falling out with the rest of his body. Honestly, no marine or even body builder walks like that! I was so delighted when he jumped in the lake, and the movie genuinely improved after that! It appears the marine is in fact the writer, director and producer. Wow, that explains a lot.

The characters make decisions that would leave you in awe. They keep making them time and again...making you hate them even more. In a real life situation, people would just call the cops and get help. Instead they all stayed back another night to try find the killer, not knowing if there was even one. It's bizarre how one of the reviews gave this a 10/10, calling other people trolls. I could even forgive a weak storyline, but a storyline that doesn't emulate real life situations and decisions? Now that's just lazy and disrespectful to whoever is watching.

An average thriller movie with poor script, but good in camera directing... There's nothing about Mystery, Failed: they just looked the man and never proved if he really died, they didnt even heared his heart pulse....!! Anyway Interesting is how drugs and alchool always destroys everything in society and creating some stupidity problems. Suggestion about society..!! One gold quote says: Your biggest enemy is never a stranger, but it's your closest ones.

Tried to watch. Just kept getting less and less plausible with every scene.

The movie starts out Ok but slips up now and then and just when I was about to stop watching something happens and that kept up till the END which i for sure did not see coming as the bitching among characters completely threw me off. worth a watch with friends.

I went into this thinking I was going to get the usual "whodunnit" film but set in the woods. I will say that, coming out, it was a lot more than I expected. Pros: The ending takes it. I can usually call these types but I couldn't in this one. The cast does a great job overall. The lead actor nails it, and overall everyone was believable. The setting of northwoods Minnesota in the fall is beautiful, and that contrasts the downward spiral that the characters take. And for a thriller, the movie touches on some heavy issues with some of it's dialogue. Cons: Some of the dialogue felt stiff, especially in the opening. There were slow moments, again mostly in the beginning. The one scene with the dummy doesn't really add anything, and could have been left out. Overall: I despise unoriginality--the constant churn of Hollywood sequel after sequel--and I thought this was an interesting and original concept on a familiar tale. For that reason I gave it a 9.

After a few minutes you get a sense that this is a very low budget movie with mostly almost amateur acteur. Most of the time I get bored by mid movie and either stop it or fast forward to see the ending if I'm curious enough. In the end I watch the whole movie even if I was infuriated most of the time by the stupidness of the characters decisions. But at the same time I was amuse enough and curious enough to continue watching. This is the kind of movie who should work (and I'm sure a lot of people would feel thtat way), but for me it was interesting enough to found it fun.

I have a high tolerance for problems in independent or low budget. If it has one or two good elements be it premise, cinematography, directing, dialogue or acting, heck even costume, I will accept problems inherent in low budget. But this film is outright terrible in EVERY aspect. It is a 'don't quite your day job" example for everyone involved, director, actors, writers etc. And the pitiful upshilling, obvious in all the accounts created just to uprate the film with no other IMDB activity just tells you how bad even the participants in the film know it is.