Well folks, here we go, my first movie review ever. Someone on Twitter said they would send a DVD of this movie to any blogger who would post of review of it, so on a whim I said sure, and sent them my address in a Twitter message. To my surprise, a few days later here comes Re-Directing Eddie. So here’s my part of the deal.

First of all I have to say I love big Hollywood films, the slickness, the professional acting, the top production values. Never been a big indie guy, mostly because I don’t like to think too much I guess, during a movie, and watching an indie film tends to interrupt my willing suspension of disbelief. I can usually see it being made, as if before my eyes. The dream is too much like reality: “Okay, see, this is how they make movies.”

Having said that, I really enjoyed Re-Directing Eddie, a Kaliber Films film, directed my Laurence N. Kaldor. It’s so good-hearted and well-intentioned that it’s easy to pass over the self-awareness of the whole thing, the self-awareness of the actors, the self-awareness of the sight gags, and the self-awareness of the script. The whole thing struck me as more than usually self-reflexive. A mirror looking into the mirror. Not a bit of it was awful, though. And some of the acting was terrific, in parts.

It’s a light-hearted romp that stumbles over itself once in awhile, but for what it is, I think it works superbly. It wasn’t horrible and you feel good at the end. What more could one ask of this kind of film? The mean gaffer guy was perfect, though, the only person I saw that didn’t give me a sneaking feeling at least once in a while that he knew he was being filmed.

Self-consciousness is death to art, artfulness rather than artistry, but this wasn’t great art, it was just plain fun! Good work on a low budget and maybe the beginning of mastery.

Your non-reviewer reviewing,

LWIII