Director:
Joel Edgerton
Writer:
Joel Edgerton
Stars:
Jason Bateman,
Rebecca Hall,
Joel Edgerton |
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Storyline
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon's high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. Simon doesn't recognize Gordo at first, but after a series of uninvited encounters and mysterious gifts prove troubling, a horrifying secret from the past is uncovered after more than 20 years. As Robyn learns the unsettling truth about what happened between Simon and Gordo, she starts to question: how well do we really know the people closest to us, and are past bygones ever really bygones?Movie Reviews
"You
may be done with the past but the past isn't done with you.", one of
the many creepy and subtly sinister lines out of Joel Edgerton's
brilliant directorial debut. The Gift is the definition of a sleeper
hit. It has all the right things going for it, a great cast, a great
script and the potential to be a future classic. What starts off as a
slow burn thriller, giving the audience enough exposè to make us really
connect with these characters and sympathize with every single one of
them then slowly turns into a new age Pacific Heights. The film pits
Simon and Robyn, two newlyweds that have just bought a house in Simon's
hometown. While out shopping, Simon runs into Gordo, a guy from his high
school days that is a bit off and at that moment, the film takes off
and we're given enough twists and turns to constitute this as shocking
to say the least. Actor and, now, director Joel Edgerton knocks this
film out of the park, making this a home run for it being his
directorial debut. Hell, if this was his tenth film, it'd be a home run.
Edgerton directs his screenplay and actors with such confidence, you'd
think Adrian Lynn directed it. The three leads in Jason Bateman, Rebecca
Hall and Joel Edgerton couldn't be more perfect. Bateman delivers a
career best performance, ditching his recent string of light comedies
and applying his condescending attitude towards the yuppie entitlement
in Simon. Rebecca Hall, who has yet to deliver a bad performance in my
eyes, makes this no exception. She's fantastic in this film. Joel
Edgerton also proves extremely eerie as Gordo and for someone to pull
off the perfect trifecta such as Edgerton, it puts him in the same
league as Ben Affleck. This is a fantastically twisted potboiler film
that needs to be seen. The Gift stands as single handedly the best film
of the summer and one of the very best of the year.
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