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Dashcam (2021) Movie Review

Dashcam – Movie Review

Dashcam movie review: Join Annie and Stretch on a horror-fueled road trip that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

ABC Film Challenge – Horror – D

Director: Rob Savage (Host)

Writer: Gemma Hurley, Rob Savage, Jed Shepherd (Screenplay)

Cast

Plot: Two friends embark on a horror-fueled road trip and livestream the most terrifying night of their lives.

Runtime: 1 Hour 20 Minutes

There may be spoilers in the rest of the review

Story: Dashcam starts when vlogger Annie (Hardy) starts filming her journeys during the pandemic. All as she sets out on a trip from America to England to visit her friend Stretch (Chadha-Patel). However, Annie’s appearance and conspiracy beliefs see her kicked out.

Annie decides to borrow his car to continue her road trip, which ends up seeing her helping a stranger Angela (Enahoro). However, the journey takes an unexpected twist when she gets attacked crazed person, which is only the beginning of her nightmare.

Verdict on Dashcam

Dashcam is a found footage horror movie following an arrogant American disrupting the lives of her English friends. She is a conspiracy theorist who ignores the rules while filming her life for the world to see. However, this time she finds herself drawn into something she can’t explain on a nightmarish journey.

This is a found footage movie that falls into the bracket of how not to make them. It is horrible to watch, with mostly flashing images thrown towards the camera. Add in a truly vile lead character, we are left with a movie which is mostly nothing much. The best place for this movie would be YouTube, because that is the quality of what we see. As a big fan of the found footage subgenre, this is one of the worst additions to the category.

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Final Thoughts – Dashcam is a dreadful mash-up of flashing images and nothing much happening.

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Dashcam (2021) Movie Review ‘Smart Idea’

Dashcam – Smart Idea

 

Director: Christian Nilsson

Writer: Christian Nilsson (Screenplay)

Starring: Eric Tabach, Larry Fessenden, Zachary Booth, Guillian Yao Gioiello, Noa Fisher, Scott Aiello

Plot: Dashcam is a psychological thriller following Jake—a timid video editor at a local news channel who fantasizes about becoming a reporter. While editing a piece on a routine traffic stop that resulted in the death of a police officer and a major political official, Jake is inadvertently sent dashcam video evidence that tells a completely different story.

Runtime: 1 Hour 21 Minutes

There may be spoilers in the rest of the review

Story: Dashcam starts as a video editor Jake (Tabach) is waiting for dashcam footage that he can edit into a news story in his continuing hope to make it as a reporter. Before Jake starts working on the edit, he gets a warning phone call from a stranger, not to get too involved with the footage, or he would be impeding an investigation.

As Jake starts to look closer at the footage, he starts to believe the police are trying to cover up something else, in what looks like it could have been a political assassination, with this having the potential to let him have a big story break.

Thoughts on Dashcam

Thoughts – Dashcam is a thriller that will see an ambitious young man who wants to become a journalist who is working on a video edit of a police shooting, only to find himself learning about a bigger cover-up. This is an interesting idea, one that could go in many different directions, ones that the film fails to capture, because most of the film seems to focus on the editing of the clip, trying to uncover little details in either the video or sound. We could have seen a truly intense thriller here, but in the end, most of the early interactions don’t seem to be part of the main part of the film. The film did spend a large part of the film within the apartment, mostly through the computer screen, which would have helped keep things contained. This is one of those films, that does feel like we had so much more potential about everything about it, it is a shame that not everything clicks the way it could have.

Final Thoughts –Dashcam is a film with so much potential, it just doesn’t hit the heights of what it could.