{"id":22402,"date":"2016-09-20T01:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T05:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22402"},"modified":"2016-09-20T00:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T04:38:06","slug":"dirty-lies-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/dirty-lies-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Lies (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dirty-lies-poster\"<\/a>Like many others in Los Angeles, Josh is an unpaid intern desperately trying to make it.\u00a0 When his boss has him go pick up a highly valuable necklace, he figures he\u2019ll save some time and picks it up early.\u00a0 While the necklace is in his possession, his housemates through a party that quickly turns to a home invasion. Co-written by Jamie Marshall and Matthew L. Schaffer with Marshall also directing, the film builds a home invasion\/heist story with double crosses and not one clear cut innocent character.<\/p>\n

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The characters created here are all either flawed or flat out bad people.\u00a0 They show the toll of the industry and its insane demands on people as most of the characters are creative people trying to make it and being exhausted by their situation.\u00a0 The home invasion\/heist serves as a catalyst for them to just let go and fully show their flaws as well as their strengths even though these may not be used in the best of ways.\u00a0 The way the characters evolve is fairly organic given their situations and what happens to them. The director also being one of the co-writers allows him to be closer to and more involved in the story and how it\u2019s built.\u00a0 The double crosses and twists created in the script are well executed on screen and they work.<\/p>\n

To bring this character-driven film to life and have the characters work, the cast had to be talented and work well together.\u00a0 In the lead of Josh, Mark L. Young shows a young man with a lot of stress trying to survive and make his way in the film industry.\u00a0 As the lead, his character has the most development and goes through the most.\u00a0 His interpretation shows that he can bring human characters, flaws and all, to the screen and make them believable.\u00a0 He may have a couple of moments that feel a little off but they are very few, thus easily forgiven.\u00a0 Also doing quite good to very good are Scout Taylor-Compton, Beau Knapp, and Lili Simmons as the roommates:\u00a0 a recording artist, a painter, and an actress respectively.<\/p>\n

Taylor-Compton shows the most nuances while Knapp brings a strong douchebag vibe to his part, and Simmons brings her talent to her character and in her character\u2019s acting as another character not as much which was an interesting dichotomy to watch.\u00a0 Last but not least, Keith David as Doc has one hell of a screen presence, stealing all the scenes he\u2019s in.\u00a0 The man is a force to reckon with. The film is shot in big part in one house which is a beautiful location and looks perfect for the creative group living there.\u00a0 The cinematography by Laura Merians frames this house beautifully and uses it to its maximum potential.<\/p>\n

Also, the way the driving is shot, partially in the car\u2019s point of view which is rather Besson-esque and very visually appealing. Dirty Lies is an entertaining home invasion\/heist film with a cast of creative characters doing all they can to survive.\u00a0 The double crosses work and the ending is satisfying.\u00a0 It\u2019s well acted and well show in beautiful locations.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about trying to do the right thing your whole life and in an instant, you can ruin it all.\u00a0 Or change it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many others in Los Angeles, Josh is an unpaid intern desperately trying to make it.\u00a0 When his boss has him go pick up a highly valuable necklace, he figures he\u2019ll save some time and picks it up early.\u00a0 While the necklace is in his possession, his housemates through a party that quickly turns to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,240,302,457,474,1087],"class_list":["post-22402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-heist","tag-home-invasion","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22404,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402\/revisions\/22404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}