Exposed Movie Review

Exposed

Starring Keanu reeves, Ana de Armas, Christopher Mcdonald and Mira Sorvino

Declan Dale directs the movie,he and Gee Malik Linton have co written the screenplay.

Check out my video review for the same here

Ok WOW!!!! This movie is not what I expected!!! (in a good way). I went in thinking that this is a cop drama but it wasn’t that at all. I really like it when movies do that.you go into the film thinking that its gonna be a certain way and then it surprises you completely! So This is one of those movies.

I always try not to give spoilers so it is going to be difficult but here we go…..

This movie begins when a detective joey Cullen is murdered and his partnerDt. Galban (played by Keanu reeves) is trying to investigate his murder. Mira Sorvino plays the wife of Joey Cullen, who keeps pushing Dt. Galban to find the murderer and bring him to justice. Ana de armas who has worked with Keanu in “knock knock” plays the role of Isabel who might lead them to the person behind the murder. Initially she came off as religious nut case but she is convincing enough in her role in the end. Christopher Mcdonald plays the Lieutenant who wants dt galban to back off from the case.Gabe Vargas and Big daddy Kane have delivered a good performance in their roles. There are couple of story arks in the film and they are told in a very interesting way.

Among the two story arks, the other story ark is much stronger than the cop drama story ark. Right from thefirst scene I was hooked. One of the god things about the movie is that the trailer actually does not reveal much about the story but instead it is sortof a misdirection. Even in the movie, they have tried to distract the audience with the second story ark. But it is all tied up together pretty nicely in the end.Keanu reeves gives a solid performance I mean it is way better than his performance in “knock knock”. The main hero of the film is the story telling.

In terms of the negatives, Dt. Galban’s son story line was not needed at all, I just didn’t get the point of his son’s Phone call in relation to this story. It was not needed at all. Mira Sorvino’s character also did not add anything special. One of the main problems is that Dt. Galban never meets with Isabel haha  She is involved in some way you would at least take a statement or something  Nope!!! He does nothing till the end of the movie and he doesn’t even call her.

But the ending of the movie is good and this is one of those films that you have to see twice. The second time around you have a different experience altogether. This movie tackles some difficult subjects and what it could do to a person mentally. The story is not perfect but it is a good movie I was invested in isabel and empathized with her.

I give this movie 7/10 and recommend you to watch it!

  

Peace!