Rent Ink (2009)
3.1 of 5 from 95 ratings
1h 42min
This indie film, about light and dark forces battling inside our unconscious, has imagination to spare, but it’s a tough watch. It’s like an experimental student film, overly keen to play with the mechanics at its disposal – light, colour, texture, frenzied hand-held camera, freeze-frame etc. Little of this is to any purpose. Instead of letting narrative drive take over, the film presents a complete mish-mash of pointless image manipulation. The narrative fails to grip and the acting fails to convince. There’s plenty of cinematic imagination here, but if only it had been harnessed to better effect.