Mirage (1995) – Director: Paul Williams – 3/10 (very mediocre/bad)
A paltry rip-off of Vertigo with not a whole lot of interesting features or differentiating factors other than its bewildering stupidity and Sean Young’s vexatious Irish accent perhaps. Not only does the motion picture ring hollow in the way it approaches its tale, failing to infuse the yarn with a semblance of originality, but also it fails to relate consecutive developments and twists in a passable fashion, lazily handling time passage and completely botching the resolution. The whole execution just smacks of a sort of arrogant nonchalance, becoming so thoroughly pervaded by the sense of incompetence and impudent indolence that the entire work comes to constitute one of these weird, internally meaningless curiosities mostly marked by their sheer disregard for any kind of technical quality; neither does anybody in front of the camera appear to care nor anybody behind it, so why in the heck should we?
