Dashcam (2 Stars)

This is the 20th film in the Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival.

A young man called Jake edits videos to be shown during news broadcasts. He's waiting for camera footage of an altercation between a policeman and an attorney. The story is that the policeman stopped the attorney for a routine traffic check. The attorney was drunk, so he shot the policeman. The policeman fired back, and both died.

The story is big news, because the attorney was involved in a case against the state governor for corruption.

The police department accidentally sends the original dashcam and bodycam footage, not the shortened (i.e. censored) versions. There are also recordings of the police conversations. The traffic check wasn't random. The police officer was instructed to stop the attorney's car. Both men were shot by an unseen assailant.

This is an interesting psychological thriller, but it's not well made. The first half of the film is in real time. That's good. Then Jake leaves his apartment, and time skips when we see him in different places. I have nothing against real time films, and I have nothing against normal film timing, whatever it's called, but the swap from one form to the other was a jolt. The film is disappointing.