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Overall Rating : 2.5/10
Directed By : Tony Krantz
Tom Cavanagh (Ed (TV) )
Padget Brewster (The Specials)
Kyle Gallner (Veronica Mars (TV) )
George Newbern (Adventures in Babysitting)
Supplied By : Warner Home Video
Film Reviewed By : Rick L. Blalock
Date Reviewed : Mar. 8, 2007
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| PLOT Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die. |
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| THE REVIEW George Grieves is a man who went in for a routine colon cleansing but got more than what he bargained for. In SUBLIME, George goes in for a routine operation the operation is normal procedure so he has no worries it seems. That all changes when he wakes up from his sedated state due to anesthetic, he realizes the hospital isn't the seemingly 'normal' place he thought it was. When Doctors tell George that there has been a mix up between he and a patient with a similar name, and that their surgeries had been mistakenly switched he begins to panic and assume that something is just not right about the hospital. With the help of a sexy nurse he discovers that in an isolated part of the Hospital is being used to perform bizarre acts of sex, liposuction and mutilation on patients. Of course just like in many films of this type no one seems to have knowledge that these things are happening nor do they seem to care about anything George has to tell them. With no none on his side, George has only himself as he tries to make it out of the dreaded hospital alive. Whenever I reviewed the first film released by Warner's Raw Feed Label, REST STOP, I was mildly entertained - although it was not perfect I expected for things to only improve as each film was released, unfortunately with SUBLIME things take a detour for the worse. After watching this from that I suppose is expected to be seen as clever...I didn't know what I had watched...I hated it. Sure the film has the gruesome imagery that admittingly is an attractive part of the film(probably the only attractive part). The imagery shown also serves it's part as this being able to be labeled "Horror" but that's about it - as although there's a little bit of blood and torture shown, SUBLIME is actually a slow over drawn psychological thriller/drama......not to mention a boring and confusing mess of one. Later in the film we find out that the things that George is seeing is some kind of dream(or something....honestly I don't know), which is intertwined with flashbacks of the previous day, which was his 40th Birthday. From what I gather from these scenes is that we the viewer are to be made to realize just how precious George's life is to him and the fear he has of losing it. The thing that probably bothers a film critic such as my self the most is that sometimes we see a film that just doesn't grab or entertain us in the least bit, or we just don't get it.....and then we have to somehow write about it - SUBLIME for me, would be one that categorizes as all of the above. Although SUBLIME has fairly decent acting(Especially by Tom Cavanagh and David Clayton Rogers), and great gore in certain parts(but not enough to render an Unrated DVD)the story is boring and not nearly original as it wants you to believe.(The film takes many of it's cues from ROOM 6 and the like - although ROOM 6 was far more entertaining and the main character was a female) The film is nearly 2 hours long, a run time that I found to be entirely too long for a film that does very little to excite or intrigue...... it makes you remember how boring those hospital stays actually were, as watching this film is like the equivalent. | ||||
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| GORE
METER 4/10 Gory surgeries are shown as I said earlier, we also have a rotted and infected leg that is later amputated. also the breaking of various things via surgical pliers. |
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| MUSICAL
SCORE 4.5/10 The score is diverse as many indian inspired tunes are used and later it alternates between mellow and upbeat tracks |
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| OVERALL
IMPRESSION OF THE FILM With REST STOP I stated that I was entertained, although it borrowed from many other films and was really unoriginal. Here with SUBLIME, the 2nd effort nothing has really changed as it also borrowed. With the haunted hospital plot, the whole time all I could do was recall when I reviewed ROOM 6, and also the torture corridor of the hospital reminded me somehow of MADHOUSE. Overall this is a film in which I was continuously watching the clock anticipating the films end - it just did nothing to spark my interest at all, there is not a better way for me to put it other than that - I wouldn't recommend SUBLIME, but i'm hoping the next film from Raw Feed will be an improvement. This DVD will be available on March 13, 2006 |
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