PASSENGER SIDE Movie Review (LA Film Fest)
July 10, 2009 by Sandie
Filed under Movie Reviews
Passenger Side was the movie I enjoyed the least at the Los Angeles Film Festival, which was too bad because I really like Adam Scott (who plays one of the main characters).
Passenger Side follows the story of two brothers Michael and Tobey Brown (Adam Scott and Joel Bissonnette), who drive around Los Angeles running errands for Tobey, although we don't really find out what for until later in the movie. Nothing much else happens apart from a few weird encounters.
Passenger Side is more of a day in the life of type of movie, where there isn't really a beginning or an end, it's just a day we follow in the lives of the two brothers, but even at the end of the movie, their story doesn't really end there. This is fine when there is a purpose to showing that part of their life, but it just felt like the reason for the errands, when revealed, wasn't good enough for me to believe Michael would be driving Tobey around all day. And on top of that, the movie has some weird, seemingly purposeless, encounters with random people. It seemed to me like a lot of them were done just for shock value but didn't really add anything to the story or the point they were trying to make. It actually felt very disjointed and took me out of the movie a few times.
