“Black
Bags”
Movie
Review
Angela Bourassa and Adam Pachter wrote Josh Brandon
directed ‘Black Bags’ starring Laura Vandervoort, Olesya Rulin, Ryan Francis,
Lauren Summers, and Bruce Davis. The plot for the movie is on a lonely Greyhound Bus, a chance
encounter between two women with identical black travel bags. When one of them
realizes she's switched bags with a killer and that their meeting may not have
been a mistake, this coincidence starts a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Everyone who has traveled a long distance by bus is well
aware of how peculiar the experience may be. being confined with strangers for
days at a time. Depending on the nature of those strangers, it might be
enjoyable or downright miserable. Josh Brandon's latest thriller, Black Bags,
finds a fresh method to make life miserable even after your trip is finished.
Olesya Rulin's character Tess is experiencing a
problematic pregnancy, and in an effort to make it to term, she is taking
experimental medications every four hours. She's taking the bus instead of
driving home from the doctor, which suggests that it's also causing her to have
blackouts.
Despite the bus being nearly empty, she meets Sarah,
played by Laura Vandervoort, who sits next to her. Throughout the journey, they
engage in light conversation before, to her surprise, Sarah shows up at her
residence. When the bus halted, it appears like they grabbed each other's
baggage. This is a dilemma because Sarah's purse contains a severed head
instead of her medications.
Black Bags rapidly and effectively establishes its plot,
establishing the two leads—the only real characters, in fact—and the opening
confrontation. Indeed, I said the film's opening conflict; begins with a head
in a suitcase and just gets trickier from there. Tess is coerced into assisting
Sarah to dispose of the head by threats, despite the fact that Sarah, who
always wears gloves, is revealed. They'll discover Tess' prints on the bag
because of those gloves. Sarah also retained the necessary medication in case
that isn't enough to persuade her. She is left with few choices between the two,
other than to assist her.
The way the screenplay causes our perceptions of the
characters to change as the layers of the plot are exposed accounts for a large
portion of the mystery. Of all, it's difficult to empathize with someone who
planned to blame a stranger for a murder. Afterward, she threatens to cause a
lady to miscarry if she doesn't assist her in covering up the murder. Yet, the
story at least makes an effort to justify Tess' behavior. There are two ways to
interpret her conduct, too. to demonstrate how hopeless her own condition is.
If you trust her at all, she may be a victim of her own nasty and hypocritical
nature.
And you'll be wondering just how much you can trust by the
time the two women are traveling to an abandoned chemical plant that
coincidentally still possesses a vat of acid. Or why she couldn't just throw it
away herself as nothing would be left for others to leave their prints on.
Another shock occurs in the last act, this time one that
is more intimate for Tess as she handles some of the plot's discoveries. This
was an intriguing choice, especially in light of how frequently characters'
reactions to their recent experiences are ignored in movies of almost all
genres. Having saying that, I did have a hard time believing the conclusion of
the plot in Black Bags. Yet, that might just be my perception of human nature
coming through.
Black Bags is an intriguing blend of drama and thriller,
buoyed by strong performances from Rulin and Vandervoort, as well as in
supporting roles from Bruce Davis as Detective Crighton and Pamela Bell as
Tess' mother. I know some people won't like how the final act ends, but I
thought it was good. It's different and preferable to dragging out the movie's
suspense plot.
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