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Friday, November 29, 2013

ATM (2010)

"ATM" is an example of a movie that has a great concept but less than stellar execution of that idea. When there are only three characters on screen for the majority of the time, the casting choices become incredibly important and the casting of Josh Peck is what dooms the movie (for me at least). The film feels slow in a way that doesn't help build any tension. The ending also leaves the viewer wanting more, such as a motive or reason behind the attacks, but is ultimately left without.

David has a crush on Emily, but she's leaving her job to work at a different company. David's coworker Corey teases him until David finally talks to her. David offers to drive Emily home and she accepts but a drunk Corey tags along. On the way home, Corey demands that they stop at an ATM so he can get some money to buy food with. David finds one, a single unit in a enclosed windowed room in a parking lot. For reasons of absurdity, all three end up inside the ATM and become trapped when a man in a winter parka begins acting strangely, eventually killing people and wrecking David's car. The stranger plays a game of cat and mouse with the three as they slowly freeze in the ATM.



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