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Tell Me No Lies
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The Movie:
The eroti-thriller, always a cable staple, returns again in the straight-to-video "Tell Me No Lies", originally called "The Midnight Hour". Often hilarious on many levels, the film almost becomes a parody of itself at times. The story (which mainly exists to string scenes of nudity together - enough that I'm slightly suprised the filmmakers were able to get away with an R) involves the death of a young woman whose sister, a DJ, comes to town to see if she can't solve the crime - or something.
The film's acting is often worse than a student film. The actors occasionally flop their lines, and yet, it ends up in the movie anyways. I can imagine the director simply saying "print...move on...". The plot is essentially thrown out after a while, as the movie turns to simply having Alex(Amber Smith) fool around with different folks - and even her female roommate.
Smith isn't a terrible actress - she's not going to win an Oscar, but she's not awful, and she certainly looks stunning. Overall though, "Tell Me No Lies" is just another picture that's going to probably be run endlessly on Cinemax at 2am.
The DVD
VIDEO: Artisan offers the film in it's original aspect ratio, which, according to the back of the box, is full-frame 1.33:1. It's not a particularly great transfer, but the film's production values aren't exactly impressive, either. Sharpness and detail are fair at best, and some of the darker scenes look murky and rather undefined.
There's some additional problems, as well. Some slight pixelation and grain is visible, and there's some minor print flaws on display. Colors appeared fairly subdued, although the occasional bright color enters into the picture. An average transfer from Artisan - not bad, not great either.
SOUND: "Tell Me No Lies" is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1, but I really couldn't tell from listening to the film, which provided an almost completely front-focused audio presentation. A dialogue and music-driven effort, the audio quality seemed appropriately professional - not thin or edgy, but there really wasn't any activity to it, either. Dialogue didn't sound natural, but was still clear and easily heard.
MENUS:: Menus are nicely animated, with transitions and clips in the background.
EXTRAS: 6 minute Featurette, trailer, cast/crew bios.
Final Thoughts: "Tell Me No Lies" isn't a very good film in really any way (unless you're seeking cable-level nudity), but Smith at least has an okay performance and there's some unintentional laughs throughout.
The eroti-thriller, always a cable staple, returns again in the straight-to-video "Tell Me No Lies", originally called "The Midnight Hour". Often hilarious on many levels, the film almost becomes a parody of itself at times. The story (which mainly exists to string scenes of nudity together - enough that I'm slightly suprised the filmmakers were able to get away with an R) involves the death of a young woman whose sister, a DJ, comes to town to see if she can't solve the crime - or something.
The film's acting is often worse than a student film. The actors occasionally flop their lines, and yet, it ends up in the movie anyways. I can imagine the director simply saying "print...move on...". The plot is essentially thrown out after a while, as the movie turns to simply having Alex(Amber Smith) fool around with different folks - and even her female roommate.
Smith isn't a terrible actress - she's not going to win an Oscar, but she's not awful, and she certainly looks stunning. Overall though, "Tell Me No Lies" is just another picture that's going to probably be run endlessly on Cinemax at 2am.
The DVD
VIDEO: Artisan offers the film in it's original aspect ratio, which, according to the back of the box, is full-frame 1.33:1. It's not a particularly great transfer, but the film's production values aren't exactly impressive, either. Sharpness and detail are fair at best, and some of the darker scenes look murky and rather undefined.
There's some additional problems, as well. Some slight pixelation and grain is visible, and there's some minor print flaws on display. Colors appeared fairly subdued, although the occasional bright color enters into the picture. An average transfer from Artisan - not bad, not great either.
SOUND: "Tell Me No Lies" is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1, but I really couldn't tell from listening to the film, which provided an almost completely front-focused audio presentation. A dialogue and music-driven effort, the audio quality seemed appropriately professional - not thin or edgy, but there really wasn't any activity to it, either. Dialogue didn't sound natural, but was still clear and easily heard.
MENUS:: Menus are nicely animated, with transitions and clips in the background.
EXTRAS: 6 minute Featurette, trailer, cast/crew bios.
Final Thoughts: "Tell Me No Lies" isn't a very good film in really any way (unless you're seeking cable-level nudity), but Smith at least has an okay performance and there's some unintentional laughs throughout.
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