Faces in the Crowd (2011)

School teacher Anna Marchant (Milla Jovovich) lives with boyfriend Bryce (Michael Shanks). Serial killer Tearjerk Jack is on the loose. Francine (Sarah Wayne Callies) and Nina (Valentina Vargas) are her friends. One night, she witnesses an attack by Tearjerk Jack and is attacked herself. She falls off a bridge and wakes up with brain damage. He takes her phone. She has Prosopagnosia, an inability to recognize faces. Police detective Sam Kerrest (Julian McMahon) is investigating Tearjerk Jack.This is an intriguing premise for a psychological thriller. The changing faces can be off-putting for the audience. It is a difficult thing to get used to. I really like the coping mechanism and her training. However, the face changing does get into the way of good storytelling. I have no easy solution but I do like the premise.

"Faces in the Crowd" is a watchable, partly enjoyable thriller/serial killer film, starring a nerdily cute and youthful-looking Milla Jovovich (who's one of my all-time crushes, I've got to admit it). Her character, Anna, gets attacked by a serial killer known as Tearjerk Jack. She survives, yet loses the ability to recognise faces -- so far a nice variant of the classic "amnesia" and "blind witness" themes. I actually had come in contact with people suffering from prosopagnosia, so when this topic emerged in the film, I became intrigued (I hadn't known the film was about, but had chosen it just due to its cast). It was also refreshing to see Ms Jovovich in the role of a vulnerable character. Don't get me wrong: I always enjoyed (and always will enjoy) seeing Milla kick arse.Sadly, some generic and even kitschy plot elements have found their way into the script. (SPOILERS) We've got the woman who walks home (alone and at night, mind you) and of course takes a 90% rape chance short cut at the first opportunity. We've got the lone cop who protects the sole witness by driving her to his picturesque home town. And we see said hunted witness leaving a hideout because her boyfriend sent her a text message.Furthermore, the acting is sometimes a bit on the odd side, yet not as bad as it is stated to be in some posts around here. On the upside, the main character's face blindness allows some interesting aspects and twists. The effect of the changing faces is creepy (achieved by different actors playing the same character) and can keep a viewer off balance.So if you are looking for something in the neighbourhood of "Blink" or "Los Ojos de Julia", or if you like Milla Jovovich, give this one a try.6.5/10 (7/10 including the Milla bonus)

Faces In a Crowd: staring milla jovovich I Never even heard of this movie let alone planed to watch it til it was suggested to me based on other films i saw listed in IMDb story follows i successful women Kindergarten teacher who witness a Murder in the Process of trying to escape with her life falls off a bridge and hits her head causing her to lose the ability to recognize faces and therefore they all start to look alike, the Killer begins to stalk and taunt her knowing she can't recognize anybody he starts to make her lose her mind and play head games with her. plot was intriguing the cast was well put together and pretty good but it starts to get a Little confusing with the Characters constantly changing faces you start to lose focus on who she is actually talking to but in general it was a fairly decent movie it had it's gripping moments i give it 5 out of 10 stars

The idea behind this serial killer movie - a female witness to a serial killer who is injured and can't recognize faces, even that of the killer - is a novel one. And the woman's disability does lead to some interesting scenes of her struggling with the disability. But the movie as a whole doesn't quite work. One reason is the budget - while the movie never looks extremely cheap, it's obvious throughout that the entire enterprise was done in a cost-saving manner. The main reasons the movie fails, however, is that the movie both feels very drawn out and the serial killer parts fail to be very interesting or suspenseful compared to what we've seen in other serial killer movies before. Ironically, the movie is the most interesting when it shows the female lead struggling with her disability in day to day life. I honestly feel that if the movie had ditched the whole tired serial killer plot and made a serious movie about the woman's disability that the movie would have been a lot better.P.S. - Does a movie really need FOURTEEN executive producers?