He could. . . Alex (Toby Kebbell) and Lisa (Penelope Mitchell) are a happy young couple. They go to Lisa's parents, whom Alex knows only in absentia. The travel time seems to fly unnoticed - the guys play different games (as much as possible in the car), solve crossword puzzles and admire the views outside the window.
However, when a distant relative visits Alex, something happens to the latter, after which his behavior begins to change. Noticing the changes in her boyfriend, Lisa gradually begins to understand what happened to him.
Like films about the obsession with some evil creature or entity (not always an evil spirit), a great many are shot and something new can be invented here on big holidays. The director and screenwriter of the film Omar Naim vividly confirmed this with “Transformation”, where the idea of transforming a person into someone else was conceived well, but implemented below the level of expectations.
Obviously, he was inspired by stories and films, trying to create a collective image of something sinister that stood in the way of the young couple. Taking into account various plot twists and based on the behavior of the characters, we can safely say that “Transformation” “punched” a little from “Alien” Stephen King, “Sinister”, “Gone” and of course “Rosemary’s Baby”. Most of all, however, "Transformation" is similar to "The Amityville Horror", for the behavior of the characters Kebbell and Reynolds is almost comparable. Specifically indicate where references to which films I will not, because they will become obvious to you when watching.
The film could be hooked by an attempt to recreate the author’s atmosphere and the desire of the director to control the filming process as if the camera operator is present in the room as a third character. True, this is not expressed in the form of following the camera after the heroes and does not follow the path of a psevodokumental manner of presenting information. Rather, there is a kind of invisible effect of presence, not pressed to the desired level.
Another thing that could make a film is to be built on the emotional play of the characters. The anger of one character and the horror in the eyes of another - this could build a dark horror, trying to recreate something from "The Shining" or "Psycho", where there is a victim and a manic type. But here's the trouble, neither Kebbell nor Mitchell were able to fully portray the feelings and experiences of their characters. And taking into account the fact that the graphics in the film the cat cried and the director for lack of better had to shoot “from what was”, it was an emotional game that could decorate the “Transformation”.
The “ancient evil” stated in the brief annotation to the film remains them, because Omar Naim failed to bring his idea to the viewer through the film. If he himself understood what exactly he wanted to say, then to make this information available to everyone, and not for his mind, the writer and director in one person, alas, never happened. The function or rather the habits of the “ancient evil” are understandable, as are its ways of achieving the desired result, but the ultimate goal is something that has never been presented. There is a legend about a child, but it also raises questions: why a particular person was chosen and why the “ancient evil” could not stop at someone else? If this particular person approached by any parameter, then by what?
The roughness of the plot is obvious and appears not only in the key moments, but also in the banal content of the picture, because it takes too much time to travel and move from point A to point I through all the relevant points B, B, G, etc. Simply put, heroes drive too much, instead of trying to get emotional and find answers to all the questions. And of course, the subject of love triangles. That’s what, and without it definitely could do, so it looks not too appropriate, especially taken out of nowhere calls to which one of the characters does not want to answer.
It is possible that the film “Transformation” turned out as it turned out just because of the abundance of “drawings” ripped off from other films. That’s why this movie is not original, but similar to many.
But look at you. I do not impose my opinion on anyone.
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4 out of 10