Nicole (2019)
Ninth review is for indie horror/thriller starring Tamika Shannon who I wouldn’t mind seeing in more things. It’s stylish, exciting, brutal, and confusing. Includes #spoilers :
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Nicole (2019) Pros: The trailer highlighted the stylish, interesting, and chaotic nature of the story. I liked the way it used the color for showing what is reality and what’s imagined, also ties to a con. And the acting was aligned with the movie, not over the top or weak. Nicole definitely had depth, alcoholism and making food for her dead? family. The guy, John, definitely made me hate him. The personality differences were exciting to watch because one is monotone and subdued, the other is bold and obnoxious. & The settings were also well used.
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Cons: The color flips were not consistent. The dead body talking to her was a moment of that, are these things that she’s imagining, is it happening, are we flashing back in time? I also wish John had some kind of redeeming quality because she was not into the date from the jump taking shots of alcohol back to back. Did she plan to kill him from jump, I’m not sure. The dude from the neighborhood following her went nowhere, and by the end I felt like if I didn’t watch this film I wouldn’t have missed anything. The movie poster was dope, but made it seem like she was just a murder and not someone just using the axe to chop up the body after she used it in self-defense. Why go through all the effort to chop up and hide the body, witnesses saw you with the nigga? If you were in The House that Jack Built then…
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I rate this a 5, not great and not terrible. I was visually pleased by the black and white then pops of color, and then how the story plays out as a bad date gone wrong but by the end I was confused and uninterested in figuring out what the colors, this conversation with the dead body, and the gas station scene were all about. I was entertained and the acting was aligned with the movie. I would recommend this for a movie night with your girls where you drink cheap wine and recall stories of terrible dates.
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