Choose (2011)

• Year: 2011
• Released: 23 Mar 2011
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1325723/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/choose
• Available in: 720p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
• Runtime: 83 min
• Writer: Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson
• Director: Marcus Graves
• Cast: Katheryn Winnick, Kevin Pollak, Nicholas Tucci
• Keywords: parent child relationship, killer, college student, criminal investigation, sadistic psychopath,

4.7/10

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Fiona Wagner is studying for a master’s degree in journalism and still grieves for her mother Samantha who committed suicide at the Crescent Hotel three years ago. Her father, Detective Tom Wagner, is investigating the brutal death of lawyer Elliot Vincent, who was murdered by his teenager daughter. His daughter was forced to choose between killing him or having her mother, little brother and herself killed by a sadistic criminal that had broken in their house. When pianist Simon Campbell is forced to choose between losing his fingers or his hearing, Tom realizes that a deranged serial-killer is attacking people. Meanwhile, Fiona is contacted by the criminal through the codename ISO_17. Fiona recalls that her mother had mentioned something about choice in her suicide note and she decides to investigate the sadistic man further.

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The movie opens up with a young teen girl (played beautifully by Shana Dowdeswell)who has just discovered boys. She has really cool parents as she excitedly chats on her cell to her bff about a boy who looked at her and asked to copy her homework. You can’t help but like her then suddenly she is thrust into a room where her parents are tied up by an intruder. The crazed man makes her choose which one of her parents must die, or the whole family dies. Her dad instructs her to choose him, which she does. The intruder also makes our teen do the killing. Cue credits.

The next scene teases us with student reporter Fiona Wagner (Katheryn Winnick)heading for the shower. She is spooked and soon her father, a policeman (Kevin Pollak) is there to calm her down. Her mother was a suicide victim… or was she? She gets an IM about her suicide. Other people in town are having to make sick choices…and in her suicide note her mother mentioned making a choice. The movie, which comes off as a whodunit, shows us a very “clear” silhouette of the mad man’s face and we get to clearly hear his voice, although we never get introduced to his character.

Unfortunately the movie lacks giving us clues and the end comes off as a bit bizarre. Katheryn Winnick does her best to salvage a script that needed work. Kevin Pollack seemed to just be going through the motions.

The act of violence is not graphically shown, but rather we see the results.

No sex, no nudity, rare f-bomb.

Tough decisions

Is it clever writing or just another Saw rip-off? Is it disgusting or necessary to move the story and the central idea forward? Can you stomach it or would you rather see a more philosophical approach to the whole “choosing” game (psychologically it is interesting)? Can the movie do justice to the central idea or not?

These are all legitimate questions, that have to be answered. But as with other movies that are trying to ask those things, the answers will mostly be lying on your side and your taste. There is another question though too: Do you care or do you just want to be thrilled/scared/entertained? The viewers who wish the latter will take more from the movie of course. But have to endure weak acting and a weak script.

Choose: Mediocre thriller

Similar in method to Seven (1995) this well cast little thriller doesn’t live up to its potential.

A new criminal has emerged, one who presents his victims with a horrific choice such as which limb he’ll cut off or which family member they have to kill.

The concept has potential, the execution however is lacking.

The movie has moments of intelligence and strong writing but sadly that’s all it has, moments.

Katheryn Winnick, Kevin Pollak & briefly Bruce Dern star in this lackluster effort that should have been a great deal better.

For a far more intelligent and well conceived movie about forced difficult choices then I suggest Would You Rather (2012)

The Good:

Couple of nice touches in the script

The Bad:

Very underwhelming

Potential squandered

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Bruce Dern looks identical in every film he’s ever been in

If Scarlett Johansson & Teresa Palmer had a baby it’d look like Katheryn Winnick