Three months later, I was sitting in class, being given lectures about how to pick up a camera by the people who made Redline. The inept direction and cinematography didn't help the picture and only added to the faults found throughout this facade. Sadly, the bland and pedestrian efforts made by John-Paul the Great University staff and Alumni came across as a juvenile rendition of what one thinks of a big budget blockbuster. “This movie, given the time, effort and coordination by talented individuals would have come across as less wanna-be blockbuster and more of a suspenseful thriller. You first need to be competent before you can be fantastic.īefore I came to the university, I wrote this review on my IMDB account when I was nineteen: This film was screwed the minute that it was conceived. To the reader who may or may not make films in the future, if you have the choice of telling a story, any type of story, but especially if its big-concept, and you’re not properly prepared to making it competently, DO NOT MAKE IT. I don’t want to be too mean to the co-writer of Redline, Tara Stone, as this was her first time at screenwriting, but this is just bad.Įven though the film was made for basically nothing, and was basically made in the backstage of my school, it does have an impressive cast, Nicole Gale Anderson (of Jonas Brothers fame), as stated before, and John Billingsly (from 2012).īut this doesn’t save it from the production value of the film. The only people that I can think of making something that engaging for that little is Darren Aronofsky with Pi and Shane Carruth with Primer.īoth men made compelling, cerebral dramas for significantly less. It’s hard to make something compelling on a budget of less than 200,000 dollars.
All Hitchcock-y with its use of a literal ticking clock. Great way to set things up right? It’s the textbook example of how to create suspense. They have only a few short hours until the second bomb goes off. The group of survivors realize that there is a second bomb ticking, and that the perpetrator is still alive, and among them. The film follows Tori (Played by Nicole Gale Anderson) as she is thrown into a fight for her life and lives of her fellow passengers, when a bomb goes off in a Los Angeles subway. So what did they produce? A Hallmark quality action flick.
A student even wrote the screenplay, originally envisioning on making a World War II flick, but after deliberation with the staff, they turned it into a terror threat onboard a train. Kids would skip class to get more experience on set. Most of the professors worked as either producers, cameramen, or something of the like. From what I heard from those who worked on it, this was a big deal. A way to both put the school on the map, as well as be a teaching experience for its student. What is this literal train wreck about? Well, first and foremost, the project began as a “real world experience” for film students at the university. The film represented everything that people hate about Hollywood: it was cheap, lazy, and atrociously, insultingly, boring. Frankly, the film is a disaster, but figurately and metaphorically. Redline was the first piece of media that introduced me to the school. Miller, Jason Wishnov, Jonatham Meza, Mark Allen Jr.I have been attending John Paul the Great Catholic University since 2019. However, further delays resulted in the delay of its world premiere, pushed back a few months to August 14, 2009, at the Locarno International Film Festival and its Japanese release to fall 2010. The film is set in the distant future, where a man known as JP takes on great risks for the chance of winning the titular underground race.Īfter a total of seven years in production, Redline was intended to premiere at the 2009 Annecy International Animated Film Festival and follow Summer Wars, Mai Mai Miracle and Yona Yona Penguin as the fourth and final feature film Madhouse planned to release between summer 2009 and spring 2010. The directorial debut feature of Takeshi Koike, it features the voices of Takuya Kimura, Yū Aoi and Tadanobu Asano, and an original story by Katsuhito Ishii, who also co-writes and sound directs. Redline (レッドライン, stylized as REDLINE) is a 2009 science fiction auto racing anime film produced by Madhouse and released in Japan on October 9, 2010.
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