The premise of Downloading Nancy is a depressed housewife attempts to solicit murderers in online chat rooms. She wants help to pull off a psycho-assisted suicide? It seems like this plot with come to fruition?In the vein of Neil LaBute’s style of behind-closed-doors perversion but director Johan Renck has something else in mind. He is delivering what’s essentially an emotionally sterile and self-serious terminal disease drama without a moment of levity to be found from first frame to last. A creepy curtain-raiser that follows Nancy (a sallow, up-for-three-days-looking Maria Bello) on a final tour of pleasures to a gaming arcade of the kind beloved in her youth. This is a good indication of the weightiness in store. It’s also Renck’s most effective stab at creating genuine sympathy for an utterly broken main character. It comes when Nancy’s palpable sadness is already resonating. But her other more unpalatable characteristics as a maniacally self-involved, juvenile pain fetishist and attention junkie have yet to be teased out?
Maria Bello doesn't seem to care what people think of her choices in movieMaria Bello doesn't seem to care what people think of her choices in movie roles. Again she chooses a very difficult and not popular movie to star in. Maybe she needs those movies, to get off the sugar coated (aka "Hollywood") ones she does here and then (Coyote Ugly and of course Mummy 3). This film does not bring about what it sets out to do. It is the performance of Bello that brings life to this film. The subject matter is strange and you will either like this aspect or you will not like it? There are flaws with bad pacing and the drama, it is also still too long. 3* (This movie is just OK)
Drama/thriller 102 min with Maria Bello, Rufus Sewell, Jason Patric, Amy Brenneman, Michael Nyqvist, directed by Johan Renck, written by Pamela Cuming and Lee Ross, produced by David Moore, Igor Kovacevich, Cole Payne and Jason Essex.
Note: Imdb 5.7* out of 10* with 4.7k reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 19% with 32 critic reviews 43% with 5000+ audience scores, Slant Magazine 2* out of 4* Ryan Stewart, Amazon 3 1/2* with 72 ratings, screenrant.com 1* out of 5*.
Special Note: Maria Bello has chosen a very difficult and not a popular movie to bring to the screen? Maybe she needs these movies to get off the sugar coated (Hollywood) movies she does here and there? Maria doesn't seem to care what people think of her choices in movie roles? This time she has chosen to star in a very difficult and not popular movie.
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