Nick (2016) Online

Outlier or Nick (the title in which I viewed the movie)would have been better off as a start to a TV series than as a movie.

The film takes a very long time establishing the day to day activities of the main characters as well as the volatile relationship between the stars of the film (the town officer & her step-brother).

In between all this, a killer is stalking the town murdering at will & going undetected. After 3 quarters of the film's running time, the story begins to pick-up with some tension & a slight turn in the direction of the supernatural. This however, gets interrupted with more character establishing dialogue which diminishes the film's most tense moment. An attempt is made to rebuild the tension, which does work. However, that is unfortunately the conclusion of the film.

****Possible Spoiler: In short, nothing is resolved.****

This was clearly meant to be the 1st in a series of episodes. The film makers didn't take time to think however that for television, the viewer only has to wait till next week to see the continuation of the story. Nick though is a movie and ending it at a cliffhanger with no guarantees that a sequel will be made is a frustrating viewing experience for the audience.

A let-down overall.

This to me is very strange story and it left me wondering where is was going to lead to. I guess by the way it finished there will be a sequel? But if there is, one wonders how they are going to keep the story going without it becoming predictable and boring. On the whole, a basic film that I would only watch if I had no other choice.

Unsympathetic characters, some weirdly stilted acting, and an opaque plot give this film a very unusual feel. But don't let this, or the bad reviews, put you off. Actually it's an excellent film which drew me in and then scared the she-hit out of me. If all films were the same it'd be really boring. I'd rather watch this than 99 out of 100 Hollywood blockbusters. Hooray for weirdness!

The pace of this film is so glacial and the dialogue so on-the-nose that it almost feels like it was made as a teaching aid for English as a second language learners. The story is pretty impenetrable and the characters all behave really strangely, so the whole adds up to a bizarre oddity, which has precious little charm. Probably best avoided.

In a small town in Andorra, Margaret (Molly Malcolm) is a police officer who has the single life she desires. To her dismay she discovers he 15 year old half brother is coming to live with her. He has been expelled from his London school. He has an extensive record getting into fights and skipping class, a regular trouble maker. He likes to take pictures and hits it off well with Amber (Melina Matthews) a fellow police officer who likes horses and animals. On day one Nick claims he witnessed a murder, took a photo of the killer and no one believes him...no bodies, no one reported missing.

The film gets more interesting as we attempt to identify the killer without a missing person or corpse. At this point I hate to say anything more about the killer as it would be a plot spoiler for some. The film spends most of the production developing the character of boring people. Margaret doesn't even like puppies and only tolerates her half-brother as she meets him for the first time. This feels like a pilot film for a series as the ending remains indefinitely open.

Guide: F-word (Amber, near the end) No sex or nudity.