![]() ![]() The case indicates a region A only coding, but B and C haven't been tested. ![]() Image Entertainment has released 'Apt Pupil' on Blu-ray housed on a BD-25 Blu-ray Disc. It drags on and on hoping that we enjoy the apparent cathartic nature of the final scenes, but instead we find ourselves saying, "Finally, it's over." Then you think it's ended again, but still more exposition. It's one of those movies where you think it's ended, but then there's another spot of exposition. The third act feels like seven or eight different endings haphazardly patched together like a ratty old quilt. This could have been a decent cat-and-mouse thriller, but the movie gets lost and never recovers. Much of it is due to Renfro's dreadful overacting and Singer's inability to focus on any one character enough for us to relate with them. 'Apt Pupil' had promise, but it seems to derail rather shortly after it begins. There's something about Todd that isn't right, but his metamorphosis into a monster is cut short because Singer spends so much time at the beginning with Dussander recounting his past. We never really come to understand these characters. As a matter of fact I'm not sure why most of the things that happen in 'Apt Pupil' actually happen.ĭirector Brian Singer's adaption of the Stephen King novella is all over the place when it comes to narrative. If I didn't know any better I would say that Todd was getting some sort of sickly perverted sexual arousal from it. There's one extremely weird scene where Todd orders Dussander to put on a Nazi uniform and march around the kitchen. There never seems to be a hint of regret, but what's even more puzzling is that Todd seems to get off on it. Todd sits and listens as Dussander recounts the atrocities that he was apart of. Without any other real reason other than morbid curiosity, Todd blackmails Dussander into telling him the grotesque stories from the war. He's even got numerous fingerprint matches, don't even ask me how he got that, and now he wants to know what Dussander knows. Todd recites the prison camps Dussander oversaw and tells him that he has indisputable proof that he's the Nazi that is still being hunted decades later. He's been hoping to escape prosecution by Israel for the war crimes he committed. ![]() Dussander – if that is his real name – has been hiding out in America since the end of the war. At first they're sort of cordial with each other, but when Dussander tells Todd to get lost, Todd reveals that he knows the man's secret identity. The movie begins as Todd arrives at the door of his neighbor, Mr. Todd has a sickening fascination with the Nazi regime which I guess blossomed because they were learning about it in school. That's just the situation Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) finds himself in, when he discovers that a high ranking Nazi official is living near him. The people that you meet each day." Our neighborhoods are full of strange and interesting people, but I'm sure not many of us live by Nazi war criminals on the run who have escaped being prosecuted for the crimes they committed. I'm reminded of the 'Sesame Street' song that goes something like, "Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood?. ![]()
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