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*1/2 - Supposedly ‘inspired by’ the classic Edgar Allen Poe story “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the only connection that I can detect between 2008’s “Tell-Tale” and that famous literary work is that they both feature a heart rather prominently. Some guy who looks vaguely familiar stars as a heart transplant recipient who starts to act strangely - and then ramps it up a notch by going around killing people - after the heart he received begins taking over his body and tracking down those who caused its original host’s death. At least, I think that’s what happened. I’m not sure, though, as I started to lose it toward the end, after Brian Cox dressed up like a mobster gets stabbed in the neck and some guy in doctor scrubs shoves some other guy into an ice bath and injects him with something. The muddled and confusing plot seems less like the fantastic Poe work and much more akin to something that Karl Pilkington would come up with after seeing a headline that says “Series of Deaths Connected to Bad Heart”. Anyways, whether or not I fully grasped the lame plot is pretty immaterial, because all the other aspects of the film stunk, too. It also didn’t support closed captioning, which annoys me a bit since I always like to watch with subtitles.
Tell-Tale
*1/2 - Supposedly ‘inspired by’ the classic Edgar Allen Poe story “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the only connection that I can detect between 2008’s “Tell-Tale” and that famous literary work is that they both feature a heart rather prominently. Some guy who looks vaguely familiar stars as a heart transplant recipient who starts to act strangely - and then ramps it up a notch by going around killing people - after the heart he received begins taking over his body and tracking down those who caused its original host’s death. At least, I think that’s what happened. I’m not sure, though, as I started to lose it toward the end, after Brian Cox dressed up like a mobster gets stabbed in the neck and some guy in doctor scrubs shoves some other guy into an ice bath and injects him with something. The muddled and confusing plot seems less like the fantastic Poe work and much more akin to something that Karl Pilkington would come up with after seeing a headline that says “Series of Deaths Connected to Bad Heart”. Anyways, whether or not I fully grasped the lame plot is pretty immaterial, because all the other aspects of the film stunk, too. It also didn’t support closed captioning, which annoys me a bit since I always like to watch with subtitles.
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