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Emerging from his much-trumpeted 'experimental' stage (Timecode, Hotel) like a frizzy-haired Steven Soderbergh, Mike Figgis cosies back up to the mainstream with a by-the-numbers, join-the-dots Cape Fear knock-off.
Jaded urbanites Cooper and Leah Tilson (Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone) haul themselves - and two standard-issue teens - out to rural New York where they take on a big old "fixer-upper" of a house and, despite the creepy omens, hire ex-owner Dale (Stephen Dorff) to spruce it up. Problem: Dale is a loony who, Scooby Doo-style, wants to force the Tilsons out in order to keep a deep, dark secret buried forever. And so forth.
Featuring a scrappy script and cipher characters who only exist to serve a laughable plot, this hops from cliché to cliché right up to the final, rain-soaked confrontation on top of a purpose-built roof. Fine if it had come out a decade ago, in the shadow of Pacific Heights. Now it just feels like a rent-payer from a director who can - and will - do better.
"Souls-like meets Fable" is all this indie RPG needed to say to meet its Kickstarter goal, but it added in a Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood nod just for good measure
Gorgeous JRPG homage Clair Obscur sells out its collector's edition months before launch, dev says it didn't think "the demand for our physical editions would be so high"
Turn-based RPG Clair Obscur dev says all-star voice actor lineup includes people like Andy Serkis and Baldur’s Gate 3 alumni by accident: "He was like, 'Isn't that Clive from Final Fantasy?'"
