If you'd like to see how far Patrick Rea has come as both a visual storyteller, a creative storyteller and a filmmaker, than you really should look no further than "Time's Up, Eve" a masterfully well told noir yarn that meshes genres to spin a rather creepy and compelling story. Rea has always been a very sharp and skilled director with a keen eye for the gritty and morbid, but "Time's Up, Eve" is so far his best film with a sheer sense of atmosphere and dread mixed with a noir tone that is stunning. Every frame of this film is astounding with shadows painting the walls of this nightmarish cityscape, and buildings looking much more like specters than actual constructs. With an excellent jazz score, and some classic noir plot devices, "Time's Up, Eve" is a collection of marvelous talent that can best be described as "The Third Man" meets "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Focusing more on characterization than scares, "Time's Up, Eve" is set in a hellish black and white world where beautiful Eve is on the run from shadowy specters, all of whom have a collection route in their hands and are devoted to seizing their prized possessions from human beings. Merciless, devious, and incredibly ambiguous, Rea depicts villains whom are faceless and formless and yet still completely horrifying.

A combination of neo-noir, crime drama, and the classic monster movies, "Times Up, Eve!" is a marvelous short film with Patrick Rea going all out in terms of visuals, skill, creativity, imagination, and pure unadulterated storytelling. Star  Sharon Wright is a compliment to a stellar picture, and I highly suggest this to anyone open to an original short film.