Film Review - Amber Alert
December 13, 2012
With found footage endeavors, we’ve seen giant monsters tearing through New York City, ghosts haunting a suburban California home, and adults getting lost in Maryland woods. Are you ready to watch one about pedophilia on Arizona freeways? “Amber Alert” is the latest entry into the DIY moviemaking sweepstakes, only this time the results are painfully amateurish, frustratingly dim-witted, and just a touch too tasteless. If the sound of child being molested and moronic lead characters endlessly bickering is your thing, perhaps the feature won’t feel like swallowing glass for 70 minutes. For everyone else, “Amber Alert” is a repetitive, dreadfully padded event, employing a real-world horror to fuel cheap shocks and a bogus dissection of moral responsibility. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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