My rating of "Body Cam" lands on a four out of ten stars. Ultimately then "Body Cam" provided only a less than mediocre entertainment to me, though it had potential to have been so much more, had the writers opted to go in a different direction. But I will say that the actors and actresses put on good enough performances, despite having such a strange storyline and script to work with.
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The acting in the movie was good, though I can't really claim to have been thrilled with the particular choice of cast.
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Director Malik Vitthal just never really fully utilized this otherworldly character to the full extend of what it could have contributed to the movie. All the suspense that was built up with the spectral entity just never felt like it was brought to fruition on the screen. So that was definitely something that spoke well for the movie. Lots of good suspense being built up in some scenes, and it felt like you were right there alongside the police officers most of the times. Visually then "Body Cam" was interesting. And that is where the movie completely fell apart for me. The last third of the movie was very anti-climatic and felt really rushed. And then when it was revealed what was really going on, I was left with a sensation of it being a rushed and generic approach to the movie by director Malik Vitthal. And it was shame, because there was so much potential to the storyline. Sure, that might have been the intention by writers Nicholas McCarthy and Richmond Riedel, but it was done to such as extend where I started to lose interest in the storyline, given everything was leaving me out in the dark constantly. "Body Cam" was a rather confusing movie to me, and I must admit that I didn't really know what was going on most of the time throughout the first two-thirds of the movie. But that was not the thing that happened. So I sat down to watch the movie as written by writers Nicholas McCarthy and Richmond Riedel with some expectations for them to deliver something rather good and worth my time. I must admit that I was lured in to watching the 2020 movie "Body Cam" given its rather appealing synopsis, which most certainly made the movie sound really interesting. I'm not sure why the ending is delivered like a happy end when there are obviously heavy consequences waiting for the main lead, she will surely lose her job and probably get institutionalized after delivering her statement (I mean, who is going to believe that?). I gave it a 5/10 only for the kinda funny heavy-handed social commentary they tried to shove in, I'm still not sure either it was very smart or kinda sarcastically stupid. So you're just waiting for 30 minutes of filler "detective work" and "fresh twists" to end so you can watch the anticlimactic ending you saw 30 minutes ago.
Here it takes them an hour and a half to get us to the actual resolution even though everything is very predictable. It really is very close structurally to S1, Ep 6 "Shadows". You're just waiting for him to deliver his version of what happened and you know you will agree with him. You know, one of that older X-files episodes where the viewer quickly catches what is going on and in the best X-files way the viewer's thoughts are projected through Mulder's believer's intuition. I really enjoyed 'Body Cam' and would recommend people give it a look. Very disturbing and certainly the best thing this film had to offer. There is a scene towards of the film that really took me off-guard by how well it was done though. The film only really falls down when it stretches the odd scene out a bit too long, and also gets a little dull through the middle stages. Generally when I see either of their names attached to a film I like to check that film out knowing it will likely be good. Him and his brother seem to only like to do films that are quite dark in nature and have an edge to them. Also Nat Wolff was a welcome addition to the film. She was great in the lead role here - extremely likeable, never fluffed a line, and had me believing she was a cop from start to finish.
I think of her more for her music, but the fact is that she is a terrific actor when she wants to be. Blige is actually an Oscar nominated actress. It wasn't overpowering enough to stop me from quite enjoying this little hidden gem of a film however. I really enjoyed the realistic side of the film, but the supernatural side of things - even though it was done surprisingly well - took me away from that and had me rolling my eyes a little. That turned out to basically be my exact thoughts on the film. It sounded like an interesting premise, but I very rarely enjoy supernatural elements in films. Based on the synopsis for 'Body Cam' I really had no idea whether I was going to enjoy this movie or not.
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