Default (2014)
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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.
Default's stylistic choices in storytelling give the found footage genre some maturity not seen since Barry Levinson's The Bay.
...it's hard not to imagine how much dropping the live footage concept would have benefitted the entire project.
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