Saturday, 16 November 2024

Zero (3 Stars)


This is the eighth film in the Stuttgart Weird Weekender Festival.

Hus Miller is an American businessman visiting Dakar, the capital of Senegal. He wakes up in a bus with a bomb strapped to his chest and a timer counting down from ten hours. A woman gives him a mobile phone and leaves quickly. A voice on the phone tells him he has ten hours to complete five tasks, and if he fails the bomb will explode.

Never mind what the tasks are. The film is ridiculous. If I'd been in that situation I would have handed myself over to the police and given them the phone to have the number traced while the bomb is disarmed. Maybe the mysterious caller would have found out and killed him, but it's obvious from the start that his survival chances are low. Good acting, reasonable action scenes, but a poor story.

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