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Genre: Drama | Thriller
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IMDB Review
Release: year 2009
A bit more splatter and a bit less chatter could have made the movie Godspeed an intriguing and overwrought story of murder, quasi-religious passion and retribution set in light of midnight sun. The thriller of Robert Saitzyk, the director of the movie, thinks very deeply about God’s absence and the pain of being grief in violent, cruel world. But it is very much less taken with elementary beauty of Alaskan wilderness than with sounds of its voices of characters to the dramatic violence. Prizewinner of Cine Vegas might tie up with core audience of thrill seekers in fests and on the DVD.
Godspeed straight away telegraphs the weighty ambitions and also its inclination toward arduous overstatement, in the opening scene where captivating faith healer of Christianity Charlie makes an attempt to cast the emphysema of elderly woman. But the fiery chant of faith of Charlie has very little effect on congregation or woman and quite less on Charlie, who deadens the pain by cheating Jessica Ward his wife.
Life of Charlie turns out to be worse from being bad when his little son and wife are murdered at a night—in an over-aestheticized, wordless sequence, which unfolds in glow of Northern Lights by two men whose intentions are left very much unclear. After six months, Charlie then starts to live in the trailer, his faith being shattered as has been proven by his nature of blacking out the passages of the Bible with the pen.
Then enters Sarah, the teenager who is red-haired who simply insinuates herself to life of Charlie in friendly and vaguely sexual way. Claiming that Sarah’s father requires his assistance, Sarah pleads with Charlie for coming to her remote farm of the family. Out there he meets up with Luke, her older brother whom the viewers will identify as one of two killers; but however Charlie won’t.
The screenwriting of Godspeed was the unique collaboration by Saitzyk and producers Knauf and Mckelheer. The consequence is the movie, which evinces splendid ambition in writing and the talent behind camera.
Luke is a magnetic, frightening ringleader who is trying to teach local youth in a kind of sub-Nietzchean sect. His hatred for Charlie lends tension to the procedures but after the truth actually comes out, Knaug gives a striking performance, which overstays its welcome. The other characters have also played their part quite nicely especially McKelheer who effectively underplays opposite Knauf and cruel Halverson.
