A Reckoning That Should Come To Us All – Movie Review
A Reckoning is a startlingly bleak, yet undeniably engaging moving picture experience from start to finish. Need a break from loud and lazy cinematic spectacle? A Reckoning is a startlingly bleak, yet undeniably engaging moving picture experience from start to finish. Many filmmakers promise a masterpiece and deliver a crayon stick figure drawing, while other cinematic efforts enter our minds with such low expectations that their artistic creativity catches us totally off guard. Such is the case with writer/director Andrew David Barker’s auteurial effort, A Reckoning. To start, I must admit my bias and admiration for films dealing with a lone character coping with adverse conditions, counting the Robert Zemeckis/Tom Hanks collaboration Castaway among my list of endlessly watchable films. However, I count Will Smith’s attempt to play the last man on Earth in I Am Legend as a resounding failure, so keeping the cast list small is not an instant path to praise in my book. This 2009 British production presenting a post-apocalyptic tale of a man’s psychological battle