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Plot Summary
A disturbed and troubled man whose fascination with serial killers leads him and the audience on a horrific and menacing journey through his obsessive and twisted mind as he retraces their footsteps.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
38%- Reviews Counted: 8
- Fresh: 3
- Rotten: 5
- Average Rating: 4.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: "Dark Tourist" takes an effectively unpleasant trip down the lost highway of a morbid mind before its bad choices start catching up with it.
Rotten: Michael Cudlitz's first leading role is the sole selling point of this repellent character study.
Rotten: "Dark Tourist" gets bogged down in insufferably slow-moving scenes - interestingly, when Jim is interacting with others, despite consummate performances from Cudlitz and Griffith.
Fresh: Griffith can break your heart as a good woman staggering under the weight of life, especially after her character places her last bit of faith in a dangerously damaged man.
Customer Reviews
A Must See for Michael Cudlitz Fan
I'm a huge fan of Michael Cudlitz!!! I can FEEL the emotions of the characters he plays. This movie is more disturbing than scary. I didn't know what a "grief tourist" was until this movie. Everyone needs to see it to enjoy the fine acting by Michael and Melanie Griffith.
Brave Filmmaking, Brave Performances, Not for the Faint of Heart
Few films are brave enough to go where this film goes. Few films have the courage to tell its story, unfettered by convention and formula like this one. It's worth the price of the rental just to behold a work that only serves the story it is telling, not the tropes of its genre; and one that stares down the darkness it needs to express, and doesn't sprinkle it with stuff to make it easier to swallow. In a time when so many thrillers skirt the line of decency and acceptability(and therefore don't go deep with the characters), Dark Tourist ignores those lines completely, showing us the dark pain inside these 3 demential characters, and we the audience reap the rewards.
If you are looking for a rich psychological thriller, with incredible performances, that doesn't hold back at all and yet has reasons for all of its turns and surprises that are imbedded in the characters, AND if you can handle some real dark themes, I would highly recommend this movie.
Dark Tourist...a must see.
Dark Tourist is a dark slice of cinema. No doubt about it. It makes for truly uncomfortable watching but please, do not let that put you off because if it does then you will certainly be missing out on an emotionally cerebral and breathtaking performance from Michael Cudlitz. Here he portrays a man quietly being torn apart by deep-seated inner demons like no other actor can.
Cudlitz is in pretty much every scene, something I hadn’t even noticed until a friend pointed it out to me afterwards. Now that takes some doing! To own the film so effortlessly that you don’t realize just how few actors were actually involved in this project. Cudlitz's performance is never contrived. ‘Dark Tourist’ puts to good use his voice in a superbly sentient narrative thread that runs throughout the film. It draws you in, closer and closer towards to the inner turmoil that is Jim Tahna.
Michael has an acting style that utilizes subtle nuance and body movement so naturally it’s a joy to watch and both build towards a perfect picture of a tightly wound man who’s hurting beyond measure.
Whilst Cudlitz is definitely the lynchpin of the film, Melanie Griffiths brings her unique brand of vulnerability to a role so sympathetically portrayed that the whole cinema actually gasped in despair during one pivotal scene. I won’t elaborate. You’ll know which one when you watch!
And Pruitt Taylor Vince always has immense presence and in this film he adds a hugely important layer to the plot.
“Dark Tourist’ is not pleasant viewing in any shape or form.
This film will certainly leave you thinking ‘What if’. What if the characters involved simply had someone who listened to them at a time when they needed it most? It will certainly make you uncomfortable because it reflects the general murky malaise society has towards understanding and treating people with mental health issues and it leaves you questioning what would happen if more people had the help they needed, when they needed it most.
So yes. I thoroughly recommend ‘Dark Tourist’. It’s a film for people desperately fed up with formulaic cinema, filmmaking that is afraid to challenge and it flips the bird at writers and producers content in churning out bland cookie cutter films.
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- $12.99
- Genre: Thriller
- Released: 2013
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