Monday, January 28, 2013
Red Lights (2012)
There’s
gotta be a porn film with this title, “Red Lights.” But this isn’t that kind of
film. We’re talking psychics here, supernatural, reality, and con jobs. Sigourney
Weaver plays a brilliant but (naturally) under-funded university researcher of
the paranormal who has spent her career unmasking psychics as frauds. Her assistant
researcher and driver is a brilliant geek named Tom (Cillian Murphy, taking a
break from “Batman” movies). The duo gets antsy when a blind psychic (Robert De
Niro) turns up after a 30-year absence, ready to go public again. When Weaver’s
character suddenly dies, Tom goes off the deep end of obsession to crush De
Niro’s charmer. Writer/director Rodrigo Cortes (“Buried”) spins a creepy and interesting
tale for a while, but as the thriller lurches on, it becomes a comedy soup. Tom
getting into a shoving match with another professor (Toby Jones) had me
giggling hard. I fell for red herrings I created entirely in my own mind. Score
for Cortes. The final scenes, though, are so bug-fuck crazy stupid (I won’t
spoil) that I tuned out, again laughing myself silly. I wonder if Cortes saw that
coming? C+
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