Glorious movie review & film summary (2022)
The forwards and backwards between these two characters, and between actuality and fantasy, comprise the vast majority of director Rebakah McKendry’s darkly comedian horror movie. However even at a brisk 79 minutes (together with credit), “Superb” appears like an intriguing concept that’s been stretched skinny to characteristic size. The bizarre and witty script from McKendry’s husband, David Ian McKendry, together with Joshua Corridor and Todd Rigney, may need packed extra of a punch as a brief or an episode of a “Twilight Zone”-type collection. However the performances in what is actually a two-hander stay intriguing, and also you’ll by no means have the ability to predict the place this story goes.
Ryan Kwanten stars because the matted, middle-aged Wes, who pulls over to a quiet relaxation space within the woods to maintain from dozing throughout a daytime highway journey. His automobile is crammed along with his belongings, together with a teddy bear and a mysterious crimson field. Over the course of the evening, he’ll stay there, burning every thing he owns in a drunken rage. When he awakens the subsequent morning, hungover and pantsless, he staggers into the toilet to vomit, solely to be disturbed by the sound of a pleasant voice coming from the adjoining stall. It belongs to J.Okay. Simmons, and he says his identify is Ghat. Their banter is playful at first, which is surreal given the squalid setting. Simmons, whom we hear however by no means see, makes use of the total vary of his wealthy resonance. He’s form and inquisitive, even a little bit hokey in his humor, till he turns into extra sinister and insistent. And he retains us guessing together with Wes: Is that this an actual individual? An inebriated hallucination? The satan himself?
Kwanten, in the meantime, is tasked with growing this character whereas basically appearing alone in a cramped house, and he rises to that bodily and emotional problem. We all know Wes is needy and risky, however he additionally has to keep up some thriller. And right here’s the tough a part of these one-location motion pictures: easy methods to develop a personality inside such a restricted setting. Lean and imply thrillers like “The Shallows” or the latest “Fall” present simply sufficient again story to determine their heroines’ skills and clarify their survival expertise. The issue with “Superb” is that there’s not a lot to Wes, regardless of just a few flashbacks, and there can’t be till the very finish. That makes it troublesome for us to care about whether or not he makes it out of the toilet alive—or no less than along with his sanity intact. And Ghat’s mythology, whereas dense, isn’t all that attention-grabbing.
