Pontypool (2008)
Was supposed to watch this when it came out, but I never got to it. It caught my eye today in a rental store while I was looking for another movie so I grabbed this one too. Funny enough it was in the new releases section even though it's almost three years old. But anyway lets focus on the movie itself as it was quite good. It's a story about three people in a remote Canadian radio station doing their usual morning show, but soon reports of some very crazy stuff happening in the town starts coming in and they find themselves trapped in the station while the rest of the town has gone mad. The thing I really liked about this movie and also which ended in a way I didn't like that much can't be said without spoiling the movie, so I'll just say it was the uncertainty of the situation which was great but takes a bid of a wrong turn towards the end. This is a small budget movie and everything happens in the station, but as it's quite well made and paced that didn't matter at all. It also has a lot of dark comedy in it which at points is absolutely hilarious. The cast is quite great and all three of the main characters carry the movie very well. The thing I really liked about this was the main idea of it, the power of words and how something said in the right media will come off as the truth no matter how bad the original sources of the information are. Despite it having a few plot holes and the story being very far fetched it's still an intelligent and thought provoking thriller which is something not very common in movies like this.
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