Cyn
A little Cyn never killed anyone...
Writer/director, Alex Ferrari has a real sense of visual style, as he has confidently demonstrated with both Broken and Daddy’s Home. And with Cyn, a trimmed down version of a longer script written for upcoming feature film, Red Princess Blues he does it again.
The film centres on Cynthia (Stephaine Michaels), a young woman who has been kidnapped by a pair of strung-out minor hoods - Mr. Sugar (Josh Randall) and Otto (Frank Rodriguez) – and taken to an abandoned kindergarten. But all is not as it seems and Cyn spectacularly turns the tables on her captors.
As with his earlier films, Ferrari packs an immense amount into a very short running time. The dialogue wouldn’t have felt out of place in one of Quentin Tarantino’s better films, and the – frankly superb – action sequence reminded me more than anything else of Coffy.
The film looks fantastic and Egon Stephan’s cinematography certainly deserves a mention for giving the proceedings such a wonderfully grungy feel; and the acting is consistently strong throughout.
My only gripe is that I would have liked to have seen much, much more of these characters.
As it stands, Cyn is a stunning and stylish thriller that left me wanting much more. If this film is a taster of what we can expect to see with Red Princess Blues, then I will be rushing out to see the full length feature as soon as it’s released.
Wednesday 11 Jul 2007 | Paul Pritchard | Thriller
