The Traveller (2010)
Plot: Someone who looks like Val
Kilmer only fatter has mozzied on in a kind of Assault on precinct 13 style,
almost abandoned, police station at the festive period. He’s the scruff with no name “The Drifter”.
Confessing to the murder of six people but get
this the murders haven't happened yet.
The cops think he’s just a mental bellend but cuff him just in
case.
Under interrogation he’s one tough dude who may or
may not be reminiscent of a tramp they picked up a year earlier in connection
to the murder of the sergeants daughter, who they also may or may not have
FUBAR’d up the ass.
As his confessions inevitably lead to grisly bloody
deaths occurring the cops begin to believe there is an accomplice or is there more
to the creepy fucker than meets the eye.
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Is it good: Not really, but It does have its good points, when you feel drawn into
the character before generally deciding it’s just bollocks. The film sometimes has
a creepy feel, a gloomy atmosphere and some of the gore is well worked & kind
of extreme for what seems like a TV movie.
The tongue cutting scene really made me squirm.
Luckily I had zero expectations of the movie
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It’s not unfair however to criticise
his mumbling shitty performance. Kilmer plays it like some tired, ironic dying
poet “confessing” with stories of how he murdered the six. Its a low but not his worst.
Kilmer must really hate Tom Cruise 20 years ago they
were almost at an even level, Cruise had Risky Business, Kilmer had Top
Secret!, Cruise had Legend, Kilmer had Willow. Even though Tommy boy was
gaining critical acclaim for Rain man, A Few Good Men & that soppy vampire
shit.
Kilmer was
holdings his own in Heat, playing Jim Morrison & Batman. It all went tits up for Kilmer in the mid
90s. Both of them stared in big screen
remakes of 60s TV series (both with dodgy rubber mask/disguises).
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Overall: Not
terrible for a beyond the grave revenge story with a twisty little ending but
it could have been a looooooooot better if they didn’t hit you in the face with
a plot so fucking obvious and you have to trawl through it to get to a twist.
Director: Michael Oblowitz Cast: Val Kilmer, Dylan Neal, Paul McGillion, Camille Sullivan, Nels Lennarson.
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