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Over The Edge (UK)

And yet another piece of really bad cinema. A humorless and a very unprofessional attempt at making a gay crime thriller, this film feels more like a school project than anything else with amateurishly bad performances.

Jason is a medical dropout student, and he wakes up to find a corpse lying next to him. Scared, he won’t go to work and stays holed up in his flat. As he becomes increasingly isolated, losing sense of time and perspective, he begins to have blackouts. Intriguingly, as the blackouts become more frequent so too do the discovery of murdered men and women all over town. But when his TV breaks, he is forced to call co-worker Richard to fix it. All is normal, except when Jason mentions that a friend of his may be dead in his bed. Instead of hightailing it out of the potential murder scene, Richard, who has the hots for Jason, instead not only checks the body but also proposes a homemade autopsy. And when the scalpel cuts the flesh, these two young men are now in it together and in the process they start to fall for each other.

The entire story and direction and where they want this gay thriller to go to is confused and a complete mess. It is unclear whether it is supposed to be a romantic comedy, passionate obsession, dramatic thriller or spoof. The plot is filled with holes, which raise too many questions and very few answers. Every character is stereotypes, be in the policeman or the two guys. They are absurd and under developed. The relationship between Jason and Richard in particular is too absurd to make the audience believe in the romance.I wish it had something. Anything at all. (1/10)

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