Emulsion

Year of release : 2013

 

Run time : 1h36min

 

Genre : Drama / Suspense

 

Cast : Sam Heughan

 

 

The movie was written and directed by Suki Singh.

 

Ronnie is looking for his wife who went missing from the parking lot as he was making a call. Daily he visits the places they went to together. One day,his friend who works with him as a guard at the parking lot brings him a prostitute as a gift. As the woman leaves she is being kidnapped by someone. Ronnie decides to follow him and finally the plot unravels.

 

To me this was an awful slow burn movie. I hated it, 40 minutes into it I was yawning and I was pacing back and forth! It takes about an hour until the movie starts giving clues and I already lost my interest.

 

SPOILER - the lead was actually an actor who couldn't stay in character,so he was sent to Pierre,a hypnotherapist. Pierre hypnotized him into believing he was the character he was playing,so he missed more than a year of his life,thinking he was that man,looking for a wife he never had.

 

When he finally went back to his old life,he found out his real girlfriend married someone else. So,he calls Pierre,and probably threatens him with revealing what he did to him,in order to make the actress who sent him to Pierre in the first place,and who was really nonchalant about what happened to him,think she was the character she played. -- All this is revealed in the last 15 minutes !!

 

I personally didn't like it,I didn't like the acting either. Sam Heughan is one of my favorites but not even he can make this movie work. Only the last 30 minutes or less are interesting.

 

I didn't like the colors,the cheap,old vibe. In the movie they use old cars,phone booths,the old kind of phones - land lines.

Most of the movie takes place in this abandoned parking lot,I guess due to saving money. The lead wears the same outfit daily,with the hat,coat and gloves. He never takes them off!!! He occasionally takes  the hat and gloves off.

 

The movie doesn't make any sense for an hour. It's revealed the weird guy is a detective,but why did he kidnap the prostitute?

 

To me this movie was 'dogsh!t' in the words of Jeremy Jahns.

 

The movie streams on Filmzie, Plex, Tubi Tv, The Roku Channel, Vudu Free,and is for rent or sale on Amazon Prime Video.

 

Rating : The horror, The HORROR !!