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2012-05-20 01:51:10

ODD CHARACTERS

Let's see how odd we can make characters and relationship. Phoenix lives in an apartment she once lived in as a child. Her mother killed herself in the same place. The is a bad coke deal that goes down and Angel shows up shot at Phoenix's place (with 5 kilos of coke), a one time boyfriend, until he lost her to the lesbian who lives down below. He has seen a movie where a bullet was removed from a leg with a hot knife, so he wants Phoenix to do it. Phoenix's sister calls her and needs help. She sleeps around quite a bit and is suicidal. She had just killed a man (John?) by shooting him multiple times in the head using a stuffed teddy bear as a silencer. She tells her sister he killed himself. The guy who dispose of the bodies sells them to a Chinese food place which uses them to make General Tso's chicken. The man who is killing everyone to try to find out where Angel is located is the incestuous brother of the lesbian. Phoenix and the lesbian are attempting to find a buyer for the coke on their own, while Angel is having sex with the psychotic sister. Once the psychotic sister finds out the neighbor is a lesbian, she goes and visits her... but hey! She is HIV so things never happen. There is a certain comedy element to the interconnection of the characters and the story, but it is told in a sober fashion so we don't laugh.

WhiteMike1999 2012-05-10 21:21:10

Best Kiss I Ever Had

WTF!!! Is the first reaction I had when I saw the ending credits go upon A Kiss Of Chaos. Not a bad WTF, but the WTF I got when I first sawRequiem For a Dream and Inception. Don't get me wrong, AKOC is not asmind blowing as Inception or as emotionally draining as Requiem, but itdoes deliver this strange Lewis Carroll Alice In Wonderland effect asif you just went down a rabbit hole into another universe and spent anight partying with some crazy characters. The world in the film is asimple urban landscape of warehouses and apartments yet visually itseems like one big LSD trip that feels like a dream wherein nothingexists outside the frame of what I'm seeing. The world of AKOC iseerily quiet outside of what is directly in front of you, to a pointthat it's visually and auditorily claustrophobic. That all adds to thestrange world that I'm guessing director Ricardo Sean Thompson wastrying to create.What helps cement Ricardo Sean Thompson's surreal film is a supertalented ensemble cast boasting some of the best acting I've ever seenfrom a group of unknowns and a sprinkling of familiar faces. First upis Judy Marte who plays the lead character, a poet named Phoenix who isthe "Alice" in the rabbit hole. She navigates us through this crazyuniverse wherein anything can happen and it does. Marte delivers atruly amazing and controlled performance as a character always on theverge of suicide but still trying to hold on to even the slighteststring of hope that there is a reason she belongs on this Earth. Thisis the first I've ever heard of Judy Marte, but I look forward toseeing her in more films. She's the personification of grace andunderstated beauty. Next is Gleendilys Inoa who plays Isis, the "Mad Hatter" of the story.She is insanity in its purest form and skillfully performed by Inoa.The fact that Inoa looks as if she's 15 years old and wears a CatholicSchool Uniform while committing some of the most disturbing acts I'veseen on screen, adds to the tension of AKOC. Just like the Joker inDark Knight, she is the epitome of chaos and Inoa delivers a HeathLedger like performance. Next comes Michael Rivera, the Devil of the story who ironically playsa character named Angel. Rivera's smart, dark ,comedic timing, and hisdelivery of Thompson's witty dialogue makes you laugh at times and thencatches you off guard when he quickly reminds you of how dangerous heactually is. Up next is Manny Perez playing Tony, a character I can't even begin todescribe in its totality with the maximum 1000 word limit that IMDbenforces. Just imagine if Gollum from Lord Of The Rings and Ratso fromMidnight Cowboy had a child, it would be Manny Perez' performance ofTony. Not once while delivering this strange and complicated characterdid I feel Manny Perez was acting. Fortunately I saw his other film LaSoga to know he was.Last and far from least is the most surprising performance to me. AdamRodriguez, yup Erik Delko from CSI:Miami, playing a heavy in this lowbudget film. Rodriguez really blew me away. I only saw him as the Latinlover type from CSI and Tyler Perry films, but he is far more talentedthan those projects project him to be. In AKOC, he is cold, evil, andcalculated. Something that I could never picture him or any of thosepretty boy types of ever delivering in a credible way. I hope thisleads to him being in more films where he's playing against type. ****SPOILER ALERT**** AKOC in it's most basic box cover breakdown is about a drug deal gonewrong and several characters trying to get back the drugs while causinga whole lot of problems for everyone else along the way. But the filmis far more than that. It's really and truly about karma andwriter/director Ricardo Sean Thompson, along with the performances fromhis incredible cast, did an excellent job of delivering this withoutspoon feeding his audience. Take a trip down the rabbit hole, you wontbe disappointed. I give this a 10 out of 10.

2012-05-10 09:07:24

Great Indie Film

I had a chance to check out this movie at the South Beach/Miami Film Festival in 2009 and it was a great action, drama, sometimes comedic, film. Mr. Thompson has shown that he can direct a film with any given budget. Two thumbs up.