Straight Into Darkness (2004)

★ 4.4 1h 35m IMDb
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The movie encompasses several different elements-the perils of war, a touch of macabre, sadness and redemption.

Straight Into Darkness

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Wuchak 7/10 May 26, 2019
***Arty, surreal indie about wandering the Euro wasteland in the closing days of WW2***

Sometime after the Battle of the Bulge in Western Europe, two lost American deserters journey the ruined landscape: Losey (Ryan Francis) is a sensitive man haunted by memories while Deming (Scott MacDonald) is a half-psycho brute. They are eventually forced to make a stand with a group of orphans and a skeptical French couple (David Warner & Linda Thorson).

Written & directed by Jeff Burr, "Straight into Darkness" (2004) is a low-budget indie, (financed mostly by Burr). You can tell this immediately in the opening credits, so I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep watching, but I’m glad I did because the filmmaking is otherwise professional and the cast rose to the challenge.

The tone is melancholic and surreal. To get a good picture, imagine the arty style of “The Thin Red Line” (1998) and the setting of “When Trumpets Fade” (1998), but on a smaller budget, mixed with the plot of a few soldiers wandering the war-ridden landscape à la “Anzio” (1968) and “Saving Private Ryan” (1998).

Low budget indie or not, “Straight into Darkness” is deep, moody, brooding and memorable.

The film runs 1 hour, 35 minutes and took two years to make, shot in Romania; Mammoth Mountain, California; and Chattanooga, Tennessee.

GRADE: B

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