Is the worst action movie ever a sincere disaster or an elaborate hoax that’s hidden from everyone?
Author: Robert Scruch Published
when tommy wessel Room After its release in 2003, it didn’t take long for audiences and critics alike to consider it “ The Citizen Kane of bad movies.Wiseau, who wrote, directed, produced, edited, personally financed and starred in the film, decided to change his stance, stating that the film was meant to be a black comedy rather than the serious drama he originally intended to create. However, there was one movie that confused me more than this Roomthis is Neilbrin’s Double down.
Double your bet, Breen’s 2005 debut, similarly equipped to Wiseau’s work but played so directly that I’m actually not sure if he’s sincere or delusional or our generation’s Andy Kaufman , as he has been teasing audiences for the love of them for two decades.
Suspense or satire?
Double down It is said to be a suspense thriller about shadow ops, computer hacking, bioterrorism, grief and revenge. The film’s synopsis on IMDB says it’s a “controversial story about a lone genius who shuts down the Las Vegas Strip…and the government can’t stop him. Every night he reunites with his dead girlfriend.”
On paper and superficially, Double down Sounds like a cross between the two hacker and John Wick movies, but what’s shown on screen is far from what the movie depicts. I can only speculate that this synopsis was also written by Neil Breen, who, like Wiseau, wrote, directed, produced, edited, personally financed, and starred in his own films.
Terrorism and the tuna side
Neil Breen plays Aaron Brand in the film Double downhe is a Jack, a master in all walks of life. He’s a genius with remote access to every government satellite, and his list of accomplishments is as ridiculous as his denim vest adorned with various Medals of Honor (of which there are many). When Aaron became so “digitally and electronically powerful,” the secretive Strategic Support Unit of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which he had worked closely with in the past, felt threatened by his abilities and assassinated his girlfriend.
Through a flashback, Aaron yells “Ahhh!” before floating face down and completely naked in a swimming pool with his dead girlfriend next to him. when she was shot by a sniper hiding in the distance.
After receiving another country’s directive to shut down the Las Vegas Strip for two months, Aaron began using his “simple but brilliant little gadget,” which included five laptops, a flip phone and a few The Dish Network satellite is taped to the trunk of his Mercedes.
To secretly carry out his many acts of terrorism, Aaron lived a solitary life in the desert, eating dried tuna from a can while driving. While a lot of Breen’s exposition crap suggests that Aaron Brand is a skilled mercenary of the highest order, the greatest threat he poses to humanity comes when trying to drive and eat at the same time, which completely undermines the premise of the movie .
Lack of self-awareness or a joke?
It sounds like I’m making this all up, but Double down Full of contradictions and surprises, it made me wonder if Brin was joking.
Double down Stories include anthrax-injected strawberries, a botched newlywed assassination, a secret government meeting in broad daylight in a grocery store parking lot, breaking into a Ferrari with a flip phone, a mysterious pebble to cure brain cancer, and Neil Breen Sitting in the back seat of his car.
If you’re a “Breeniac” like me, you’ll notice the technical expertise described in Double down is the through-line in all six of Neil Breen’s films, e.g. Important discoveryequally complex.
Double down
Tommy Wiseau may have reconnected Room as a dark comedy, but Neil Breen keeps “doubling down” because he’s a legitimate filmmaker and he’s the real deal. Whether he was joking or not, I’m glad I was born into a world where Neil Breen existed, because I found so much joy in flipping through his filmography that I might actually have gone crazy myself.
Although you can’t find it Double down You can listen anywhere you stream type vision Podcast, if you’re willing to fall into the same Bollinger hole I’m currently trying to escape from.
