Spoonatects
Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
TaryBiggBall
It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.
Asad Almond
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
Robert W.
Insight reads fantastic. The idea sounds like it would make for a terrific thriller but the script, direction, and general delivery of the film leaves a mess that is on par with a bad TV Movie. It came as zero surprise that director Richard Gabai has dozens of never heard of before film projects, straight to videos and TV movies. It would seem that he's a garbage director who just churns out junk after junk. The writers are also full of TV shows and movies and there is just no real strong talent to direct the movie. I suppose if you're faced with watching this and nothing else and you don't have to actually pay money to see it you might something redeemable here to sit through. It isn't the worst I have seen. Natalie Zea actually does a decent job in the lead role. Its really too bad she had to force her way through this because I think she's better than what they offer. Sean Patrick Flannery's character is vapid and empty and same could be said for Christopher Lloyd who could have been given a fascinating eccentric character but is used and tossed aside. Basically steer clear of this unless you're in dire need of just anything. It just falls short in every way imaginable. 5/10
John Raymond Peterson
If you can get passed something like the fact this movie has no big names and not that many recognizable faces, you may experience a very good suspense thriller. With the exception of a few of the 13 reviews preceding mine, most understood this was a well done movie. I'm no fan of Gabai, but I know a well directed movie when I see one; this is one hell of a surprise. For the first half or so of the movie, the director has us thinking and believing one thing, only this series of events, and scenes, was meant to get you involved. If you stayed with the movie up to that moment, you will be surprised and will feel the need to see the rest. That's when the director has you hooked. The camera work is very good, as is the editing; the musical score is not that great and thankfully there isn't much of it.I would spoil it for you if I give away more clues than the IMDb full storyline; it does not give away the key elements that make the movie a good thriller. Unfortunately, without giving away the key plot, you may very well think it's a boring story; it is not. I'm no fan of Adam Baldwin either; that alone almost made me skip the film. Thankfully I didn't. I liked the performances from the good looking Natalie Zea; she has the leading role. Though there are no out of the ordinary or outstanding performances from Zea or the next key character played by Sean Patrick Flanery, they are sufficiently convincing; you won't be blown away nor disappointed. As many reviewers stated, it is a movie that has you thinking; if you're not into that sort of movie, don't waste your time. I'm glad I did not dismiss the movie based on my opinion of Gabai's previous work; perhaps his editing and cinematography team had a good influence in this production, or he's been putting more thought in his work. If you are a fan of the genre (mystery/suspense/thriller), a genre that fails nowadays to gather big money for production, you must give this independent production (shot in two weeks) kudos for the result.
Chris Dimoulas
InSight is not a film that is easily forgotten nor brushed over. It starts off with some pretty extreme circumstances, we learn through fast cuts and dialogue that a girl named Allison Parks has been brutally attacked and we don't know why. Neither does the main character in the film, Kaitlyn, who plays one of the nurses trying to save Allison's life, as she is suffering from multiple stab wounds. Kaitlyn thinks for a moment that Allison is trying to communicate with her in some way, but before Kaitlyn can find out much, a defibrillator shocks Allison and she dies. The electricity travels through Allison's body and knocks out Kaitlyn, who then begins to see memories from Allison's life or so we are lead to believe for much of the film.The uniqueness of InSight is how in which the story is told. Methodically, as slowly we learn more and less at the same time. I imagine it's hard for an audience to piece together what is real and what is only in Kaitlyn's mind, and I imagine that's the whole point. We struggle as the main character does to try and figure out whether Allison's murder was a random killing or something more. Along the way we are introduced to a skeptical detective, Kaitlyn's sick mother, a sleazy psychiatrist, and Allison's ex-boyfriend, all of these characters add to the mystery. None of them confirm for the audience on which end of the spectrum the story will end. Whether or not this was just a random killing and Kaitlyn is just hallucinating these memories, or there's something more to this murder, and Kaitlyn is the only one who can figure it out.Richard Gabai directs this thriller in a way that allows the audience to piece-by-piece figure things out with the characters. By the end it's really up for interpretation what the truth is. If you see this with a friend, you will be discussing it long after the credits roll.
Micke Karlsson
...if you're going to justify judging it later on.I actually DID see the whole movie, but not by choice - and had I had ANY say in the matter it would have gotten turned off before the 30 minute mark.The acting was painfully bad, thus brilliantly matching the script! Messy and so illogical it created this brain-void where only apathy and disinterest could live! Normally I wouldn't even bother reviewing a movie THIS bad, but seeing as the only other two reviewers never finished it, I kind of felt that the following needs to be said: I saw the whole thing and, YES, InSight is EXACTLY as bad as everyone says it is - EVEN the ones that never saw more than 20 minutes of it!
