Clear Cut
Clear Cut
Clear Cut: As a group of loggers are working in the woods, they come across what seems to be a meth cook site. Little did they know that they would have to deal with drug cartels on their backs fighting for their survival.
A clear cut is the title of the film, and it creates quite an assumption on the part of the viewer that as one watches it they may get struck by how director Brian Skiba seems to combine unusual term with chaos as the narrative tends to flip and flop through time zones within a matter of seconds and with considerable ease. Three and a half hours of this film it’s Flashback City in what was meant to be a thriller – with very little threat about it all because after the second flashback indeed it’s very much apparent what the film’s ambitions are when it tries to tell its story.
In principle, there is no problem with dead characters being present in the flashbacks, but it is puzzling to witness it from this particular angle; if the scenes were rearranged, one could say that this already bad picture would be slightly better. After that, this is all Alec Baldwin for the film; he is practically not seen physically anymore.
At complainants end, the positions are quite frank, the attempt at (I suppose) pretending to convincingly try to play around with the central plot so to mislead the viewers could have been missed. This is too difficult to ascertain since the editing makes everything seem more complicated than the story would suggest. Moreover, the fact that I have plenty of such questions about this narrative, as many, if not all, of the ‘questions’ about the filmmaker’s ideas made regarding the biases clearly suggest that whatever he was trying to achieve with the structure did not succeed. That is an understatement.
The plot features Jack played by Clive Standen, who is on his way to the job site of his boss and mentor, Alec Baldwin and is engaged in logging work. Expecting that there should be some positive and possibly sincere messages on deforestation at the core of the action makes perfect sense, but let me remind the readers that this is one of those nearly made on a shoe string budget lions gate vod titles that somehow manages to be released in a few hundred theaters across the United States. Jack is now on a quest to take down the criminals who are running a meth production out here in the woods, which also raises a number of logistical concerns that the film never attempts to address.
It will come as no great surprise that the meth maker’s performance takes the prize for most zany, which basically means Lochlyn Munro is a stereotypical violent redneck who runs around with a crossbow and kills everyone who threatens his drug business.
After all, a buyer was free to leave a hefty sum in the back of the truck and at the same time was generous enough to fit into his head that the meth producer most likely dwelled in a trailer in some remote area. Jack is the one who is accused of stealing the money and running off with it. Stephen Dorff is also in the picture as a Park Ranger who gets dragged into the conflict between the two factions. It is probably for the best if we say the least about the females who make an appearance in this film.
Clive Standen goes through the motions reasonably well when it comes to the emotional weight brought about by the tragic events that have taken place as well as the close quarters combat, but this is also undermined by the film (written by Joe Perruccio) creating situations that in an inappropriate way exaggerate that drama.
With regards to the direction, there is nothing of interest except for one or two scenes towards the end of Clive Standen clsawing out some of the anger and sadness that he has been suppressing. In fact, it is quite possible that if you show this person the last 10 minutes of Clear Cut, he will consider that you went through a very average but entertaining film. What is, however, clear cut is the assurance that this is anything worth of checking out.
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- Genre: Thriller
- Country: United States
- Director: Brian Skiba
- Cast: Clive Standen, Alec Baldwin, Stephen Dorff
