Spinning Man (2018)
Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has reason to be suspicious when crucial evidence makes Evan the prime suspect in her disappearance.
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An Exercise In Nonsense
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
Was an engaging movie up until the ending, when it ran off the rails and was disappointingly vague & floundering. Watching the directors narration still did not answer many obvious questions.
Truth is a perception, dependent on the subjective view of the observer and coloured by time and memory.Evan is a professor of philosphy at a run-of-the-mill college with sparsely attended classes punctuated by infatuated young women who are easily swayed by his charm and logical arguments.His life is turned upside down when an investigation starts into the disappearance of a young woman.What proceeds is an examination of what goes through Evan's mind when the accusations begin, whether it is insinuation by Brosnan's character or the quiet dread of his wife Ellen, played by Minnie Driver.Take a non-existent chair and enjoy the labyrinth of Guy Pearce's characterization. It's enjoyable and worth the price of admission.
Typical plot elements for this type of crime: a teacher (older male of course) supposedly has an affair or two w/his female students. It turns out, to make the viewer question his guilt, there was supposed to have been a similar incident years before resulting in he and his family moving to another teaching position. A female ends of missing and presumed dead at a location where our teacher has visited. So, we viewers our fed lots of sketchy, inconsistent, contradictory scenes for the rest of the movie as we are suppose to make our decision on his guilt. Unfortunately, despite the adequate acting out of the boringly very stereotypical roles (e.g. the teacher, the cop, the family, the missing "high school cheerleader") it all just seemed muddled. Forgettable film.
A thriller with no thrills. The ending was horrible. Whoever wrote this drama film failed with the ending!