Exposed (2016)

Watch the Daughter of God version of this video. The studios sadly butched this film and cut in a way that didn't make sense. For more details google "Kermode Uncut: Exposing Exposed".

Scotty (Keanu Reeves) is investigating the murder of his police partner Joey. As the investigation goes on Joey becomes dirtier. His wife (Mira Sorvino) proclaims, "Joey was no choir boy." Meanwhile Isabel (Ana de Armas) who is connected to one of the suspects is having visions. Her husband is in Iraq as she says the rosary daily for him. As time goes on, the over clued mystery open up.Keanu Reeves played a very bland character. They could have hired Christian Slater to do the part and saved some money. He was snooze-fest boring and not well developed. Isabel was an interesting up lifting person, eerily saintly in her actions helping the poor and children.This is a crime drama you can wait to see.Guide: F-bomb. No nudity.

Just on a technical level i'd give it a 6.5 out of 10. The two story lines move at a snail's pace and don't have much depth. The movie plot can be summed up in one long sentence. The acting is pretty spotty apart from the lead actress who does a decent job. The script is pretty robotic sounding and Keanu Reeves delivers his usual robotic performance which he does so well and it fits the character that it's actually OK. The movie has it's moments, uses music effectively at times and does portray life as not always being neat and packaged like a lot of Hollywood movies mistakenly do and lose their interest by being artificially black and white. I lower the score from a 6.5 to a 4 though because the movie's underlying message is pretty bad.It seems to excuse murder as being OK or even good. Murder isn't the correct response to being upset by something. Even if that something is a horrible experience. You're not a hero when you do worse things than the villains do. Sorry. Basically don't waste your time on this.

I watched this on DVD which fortunately meant that I didn't waste too much money on it and I had the luxury of eventually giving up trying to make any sense of it and fast forwarding through pointless scenes with rubbish acting and directing.Even Keanu couldn't save this tripe of a movie.The story line could have been good but the script was nonsensical and the director didn't seem to know what type of movie he was making.I won't accuse the so called movie makers of using illegal substances while making this diatribe but at least that would explain how bad it is.