“Black Bags” Movie Review

 

“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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