Title: Turn on a light already!
Review: About 15 minutes into the movie, I wanted to shout at the filmmakers "turn on a light already!". It is dark. Even when it's light (outside daylight street) it's dark, like it was underexposed two stops. My wife and I were trying to place the lead actor, and I recognized his voice, as I could not see his face.In one early scene, people were talking in a courthouse. The background was lit, but the people were not, giving them a backlit effect. The needed key lights or reflectors were simply not present. Yet it looked like a professionally shot movie, not just some guy holding a camera. So it was an intentional effect, even to the point of distraction.The characters were often in silhouette, with parts of a face occasionally visible. But this effect was carried through to every scene, which debases the effect when they are indeed in a creepy place. And when it looks like a normal shot except for a missing light on the subject, it just looks wrong and annoying.
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