Official Score = 1 Devil[/caption]It is very rare when I see a movie with a cast that I really like but in a movie that I truly think maybe completely useless...
I mean it is even more rare when I see movies that seem to be completely useless so it kind of goes with out saying that it is rare when I see a movie with cast that I like, but the movie itself is completely useless... Sadly Session 9 (2001) is one of those movies!
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I had high hopes for this one... Need I say more?[/caption]I mean this movies only truly redeeming quality is the quality of cast that is in this movie! Including David Caruso (CSI: Miami), Paul Guilfoyle (CSI: Las Vegas), Josh Lucas (Hulk), Brendan Sexton III (Empire Records) & Larry Fessenden (Habit).
Besides that though, there really is not much of anything really redeeming about this movie, I mean the cinematography seems to be some one who is trying to make an Art House Psychological Thriller, but the styles that Uta Briesewitz (Arthur), the person who did the cinematography on this movie, seemed to do a weird cross between a mockumentary, and regular style movie... Either way it at times is distracting and useless.
There is this old rundown house in the movie that seems to show up near the end of the movie... The only problem is that it seems to be completely useless (except to have Brendan Sexton running out of it for some reason.)
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Brendan Sexton III in, 'Session 9'... Trust me when I say that terror does not abound in this one![/caption]The symbolism in this movie regarding the silver coins that seem to be found through out the Hospital, and which is supposed to have some sort of importance in the movie was completely lost on me...
The last thing that I wanted to say is that this story seems very convoluted and confused, in that it has to do with a crew of asbestos removers that go in to an empty mental health hospital to take out the contaminants in the place, before it can be turned in to some sort of government building. And as they are doing so, one of the guys finds patient records that seem to consist of some wire tapes of sessions by some long dead patient, and as he listens to it, the leader of the group seems to be going more and more insane, while the rest of the crew seem to be cracking at the seems...
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This team appears to be cracking up![/caption]Some how these tapes are supposed to having something to do with the cause of the problems that the leader has, the only problem is that with the style in which this movie is filmed, you can't tell if something has possessed this guy, or if he is just nuts.
In the end, I didn't find this movie to be terribly worth while (which is unfortunate because I had been looking forward to this movie for the last few years), and in the end if you try it, I hate to say it, but you might find that you have the same problems as well!
http://youtu.be/LsxkRNvEbhM
Patrick Bateman... Power broker, wealthy playboy, and serial killer...[/caption]