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Raw Feed and I did not get off on the best
foot since one of its main releases was the utterly awful “Rest Stop.”
Yet, I approached “Sublime” with the best of minds, hoping to be
surprised and or satisfied. I should really learn not to set
expectations for some movies. The message and “symbolism” behind
“Sublime” is that life shouldn’t be taken for granted. This is
translated through Cavanaugh’s character George who has just turned
forty, is about to receive a procedure that is indicative of his age,
and he’s found himself in an awfully unnerving hospital.
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What follows is both an awfully
annoying message about life, while also attempting to pass
itself off as a commentary about the medical industry. What
is really is, is a grueling exercise in quasi-horror that’s
anything but intelligent. “Sublime” has with it an
interesting premise that manages to fail on every instance.
And that’s because it’s often so goddamn confusing. Sure,
there are some scenes that symbolize a moment in the story
of Grieves, and make sense when you ponder on it, but beyond
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“Sublime” is basically another retread of
the “Jacob’s Ladder” formula with an ending that’s sad and inadvertently
cruel in the process. Krantz’s visuals are nothing short of laughable at
times, with a story that can never really decide what to do with itself.
What’s the point of the flashbacks with the party? Are they even real?
Why all the inadvertent camp in the first place? After a while, you
could feel the wheels coming off, and then it completely goes on
autopilot the entire way through without making a lick of sense. After
the first hour, I just completely turned my brain off and gazed in
horror at the nonsense on-screen. What is essentially an interesting
plot is bogged down in a hail of idiocy, and Tom Cavanagh is too good an
actor to suffer through it.
Save for the utterly delicious
Katherine Cunningham-Eves, "Sublime" is an
irritating and excruciating quasi-horror film attempting to be too many
things at once, while attempting to please too many audiences at once.
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