Default (2014)
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Cast
as Atlas
as Marcela
as Juliana
as Jumbo
as French News Anchor
as U.S. Anchorman
as Saltzman
as Armenian News Anchor
as Military Man
as American Soldier (V.O.)
as Pete Bowers
as Blue Eyes
as ANC News Anchor
as Kane
as Skinny
as Leo
as Edward
as Nadifa Sabisi
as American Commander VO
as Front Desk
Critic Reviews for Default
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Resourceful, Los Angeles-shot low-budgeter is solidly assembled, with Xander Lott's unobtrusive yet unsettling score a plus.
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.
Even the failure to find a persuasive closing note doesn't detract from Mr. Oyelowo's riveting performance.
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.
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.
Default's stylistic choices in storytelling give the found footage genre some maturity not seen since Barry Levinson's The Bay.
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