Deep In The Forest Review: A Modern Civil War With Big Ideas, Poor Execution
Writer-director Jeremy Dylan Lanni (Heal Thyself) and co-writer Pasquale Lanni take on America’s current political state in Deep in the Forest. The film is trying to capture the future and one can feel that effort in most scenes. Unfortunately, the film flounders all the way up to its final five minutes and offers little in the way of insight. No performance stands out and the intensity of the situation shifts quite often for a film with a singular tone. The story stops being interesting at its conception and the final nail in the coffin is the unforgivable dialogue. Even by B-movie standards, the average fan can guess what a character will say in any given scene.
When American forces meet military resistance, the country becomes politically divided in the most literal way. Members of the local Democratic Club show up to a meeting and are informed that tensions are high, but the safest course of action is to return home and lock the doors. Upon their return, each member and their family are abducted by men in fatigues. They arrive on a property in the middle of nowhere and are informed by the leader of the Democratic Club that their progressive views have put them on a government hit list and they offer the property as a safe house. For a while, things go smoothly, but once opposing forces enter the fray, the group splinters and tough decisions must be made.
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What good can be said about Deep in the Forest is that there are close to zero digressions and the A-plot takes up most of the film's runtime. Far superior movies have made the mistake of giving backstory to tertiary characters and feeling that everyone needs a plot unto themselves.
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