October Gale

So, so, so slow. Thank goodness for the fast forward button. I watched because of the Canadian scenery and of course Scott Speedman. Scott Speedman was the only thing that made it worth watch...Hubba habba baby!! Oh and the scenery was amazing, makes me wish I could afford a cottage.

source: October Gale

Grief is the chafe of glass scintilla, sprinkling its bits through our memories and our present day life. It is at once as brutal, as it is beautiful. October Gale is poetic in the way loss is portrayed, and balanced, just as delicately, throughout this special, simple film. Life enmeshes, glues itself, all around loss and entraps us...there is no choice in that truth. Congratulations to Director Ruba Nadda, Main Actress Patricia Clarkson, Main Actor Scott Speedman and Tim Roth, as well, for handling every second of this screenplay, its direction and its acting...from inside out, to outside in. Thanks as well to Mischa Chillak for the perfect soundtrack, and Agnes Obel, whose haunting melodies and lyrics act as transporting, interior counterpoints to the exterior, inevitable events which unfold quickly into the chaos and calm, that is both life and death... A 10 for me. No question I will watch it again, and hold it close at heart, always.

Tim Roth was the only good thing about this film, to be completely honest. (I loved the scene when she hit him in the chest with a rifle and super cool as he is he just exclaims ''Really?'') And he was only in it for like two seconds. The film was anticlimactic as f**k and boring. I don't think i would've watched it to the end if it was longer. Maybe there was a message or something in the film, but i don't really care. Like i said, it was boring.

One of the worst movies I ever wasted time on! All the more surprising and disappointing considering that I was drawn by trailer showing Patricia Clarkson and Tim Roth, two of my favorite actors...what could go wrong? Now I'm left wondering how/why in the world they signed-on for this disaster. Also left wondering how people who paid to have this movie made feel about their investment Earlier reviewer said this was a film "meant for an older crowd, 30+"...I'm over 60 and here to tell you it didn't work for this senior. I don't mind slow, moody films long as they have a good plot...but this just didn't. Should've trusted my instincts when they told me to bail out early in the film. I dunno...maybe it's me and I just don't appreciate art. Nahhh...it was a bad movie.

The grief aspects of this movie, especially early on are handled well and are completely believable. The rest of the movie is implausible nonsense that gets worse the longer it goes on. A side note, Tim Roth doesn't show up till around the last quarter of the movie, so not worth watching just for him. Being somewhat brain-dead will enhance the view-ability of this movie!

A Netflix reviewer suggested that this film improves somewhat after the first 20 minutes of watching a middle-aged woman cleaning her house. I didn't make it that far, so I can't comment. What I can say is that if you're going to make a film that begins with 20 minutes of house-cleaning, you could at least get the actress to fold the blankets neatly! I believe I actually developed a bad case of OCD while watching this movie. Either that, or it was just so dull that my mind began to obsess over irrelevant details in the set dressing. It's a rare film that makes me give up so soon, but this one managed to be both boring and depressing before anything had even happened (other than an unevenly folded blanket), so I didn't get to see if she restocked the fridge or merely emptied it.

From start to finish this indie "thriller" never seemed to ring true. The movie's dialogue just came across to me as non-believable as did many of the nonsensical plot situations, so I just couldn't "buy in". The talented actress Patricia Clarkson stars here as Dr. Helen Matthews, who's grieving the recent loss of her husband of 32 years. She's determined to travel alone from her home in Toronto to the family's Canadian isolated lakeside cottage, where she and her spouse spent many happy days together. However soon after she arrives, amidst a severe storm, Helen will find a young man (Scott Speedman) with a bleeding bullet wound in his shoulder and going into shock. His name is Will, and the story of how he arrived at the cottage, and who shot him, is slowly revealed. When a local handyman arrives by boat to the island and sees what's occurring, he quickly departs and sets adrift Helen and Will's remaining boats, thus stranding them there. Will informs Helen that the handyman has ties to the man (Tim Roth) who shot him and that they can expect him to return soon to try and finish him off. It will all spiral down in what I would say was a predictable conclusion. In summary, I'm sorry to say this film written and directed by Ruba Nadda (Cairo Time), came across as hollow and just wasn't believable to me, thus wasting the talents of a top notch cast.

This is one of the most boring movies i ever seen. Why all actors are playing so fake? Why all situations are connecting senseless with each other? And the worst thing in this movie is editing. Many many many mistakes in video editor. Acting was a fake in all aspects. That suspense was so long and boring and how is possible that all these actors were playing so weak and pretending? How is possible that this scenery is in pieces and not like a real story? I guess is all fault of this kind of director Ruba Nadda. I have no idea who is Ruba Nadda but i am not going to watch any other movie of her. Don't lose the time of public to watch some distracted ideas of you, Ruba Nadda!

In October Gale, the winds whip up into gale force when Scott Speedman arrives at the doorstep of widow Patricia Clarkson's home with a bullet in him. Just his luck she's a physician like her late husband. Scott has a real problem going for him. He served some time in Canadian prison for killing a man and he's out now. But the father of the guy he killed, Tim Roth doesn't think that was enough. He's on the hunt now for Speedman. Do I have to say more, Clarkson gets an itch revived in her and maybe Speedman's the one to scratch. In any event she's drawn into his personal war with Roth. The climax is staged very well, Roth gives an outstanding performance of a truly demented man. Nicely acted and photographed Canadian production.