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Resourceful, Los Angeles-shot low-budgeter is solidly assembled, with Xander Lott's unobtrusive yet unsettling score a plus. Oct 17, 2014 | Full Review…
Resourceful, Los Angeles-shot low-budgeter is solidly assembled, with Xander Lott's unobtrusive yet unsettling score a plus.
Dennis Harvey
Brand devotes so much running time to fear-mongering and grotesque stereotypes that a last-ditch effort at moral ambiguity and a critique on muckraking barely register. Oct 16, 2014 | Full Review…
Brand devotes so much running time to fear-mongering and grotesque stereotypes that a last-ditch effort at moral ambiguity and a critique on muckraking barely register.
Martin Tsai
Even the failure to find a persuasive closing note doesn't detract from Mr. Oyelowo's riveting performance. Oct 16, 2014 | Full Review…
Even the failure to find a persuasive closing note doesn't detract from Mr. Oyelowo's riveting performance.
Ben Kenigsberg
Brand works hard at verisimilitude on the plane and in the film's many intercut cable-news segments, but it's hard to achieve realism in a mode that's so completely contrived. Oct 14, 2014 | Full Review…
Brand works hard at verisimilitude on the plane and in the film's many intercut cable-news segments, but it's hard to achieve realism in a mode that's so completely contrived.
Chris Packham
Moments of violence punctuate this rather overly talkative drama quite effectively, but it's dismal, almost gimmicky cinematography cheapens the film. Sep 5, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Moments of violence punctuate this rather overly talkative drama quite effectively, but it's dismal, almost gimmicky cinematography cheapens the film.
Nicholas Bell
Setting itself apart from a crowded field of Somali pirate movies is a goal "Default" reaches for, but in choosing meaningless action over all else it's never achieved. Nov 7, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Setting itself apart from a crowded field of Somali pirate movies is a goal "Default" reaches for, but in choosing meaningless action over all else it's never achieved.
Travis Hopson
Default's stylistic choices in storytelling give the found footage genre some maturity not seen since Barry Levinson's The Bay. Jun 18, 2015 | Full Review…
Default's stylistic choices in storytelling give the found footage genre some maturity not seen since Barry Levinson's The Bay.
John Noonan
...it's hard not to imagine how much dropping the live footage concept would have benefitted the entire project. Oct 24, 2014 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
...it's hard not to imagine how much dropping the live footage concept would have benefitted the entire project.
Andy Crump
There is a better, more contemplative movie to be made with this material, but with the filmmakers opting for cheap thrills, it leaves the movie, like the passengers on the plane, stuck on the tarmac. Oct 16, 2014 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
There is a better, more contemplative movie to be made with this material, but with the filmmakers opting for cheap thrills, it leaves the movie, like the passengers on the plane, stuck on the tarmac.
Kevin Jagernauth
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