Redd Inc.
Director: Daniel Krige
Writer: Jonathon Green, Anthony O’Connor
Cast: Nicholas Hope, Kelly Paterniti, Sam Reid, Alan Dukes, James Mackay, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Krige
Part of: /slash Filmfestival

Plot:
Thomas Reddmann (Nicholas Hope) was convicted of killing several people. After an escape attempt, it appears that he died. But a short while later, Annabelle (Kelly Paterniti), one of the most important witnesses in the murder case, is kidnapped and finds herself chained to a desk with five other people, all also involved in the case. And Reddmann is behind the kidnapping. His plan is to have his “human resources” prove his innocence. By any means necessary.

I expected the movie to be different and I think I would have preferred my version. But it was entertaining, though yet again a movie were the ending just didn’t work out for me.

[SPOILERS]

I really liked the idea of the boss from hell who keeps quoting those insane, empty motivational phrases. But I took the “boss from hell” bit a little too literal and expected an actual dimension from hell. When it turned out that Reddmann faked his death and that the events were firmly set in our reality, it kinda went at the cost of my suspension of disbelief. I would have had less problem with hell.

And then the ending was ridiculous, too. So the killer was actually William (Sam Reid) [who was shifty from the beginning, though I suspected him to be an office snitch rather than the killer himself] and even though the office building they were kept at is surrounded by police, he manages to escape and then isn’t found for 6 months. In the meantime Annabelle writes a book about the whole thing abd does not get placed in protective custody? Puh-lease.

The script was sloppy like that a bit. Like when Reddmann goes around the office, pointing out everybody’s belief systems and conveniently skips William as he doesn’t actually have much of a character.

But other than that the movie was really entertaining. The gore was good and if you don’t think about it too hard, you can enjoy it a whole lot.

Summarising: it’s alright.