John Cusack

Jennifer Carpenter

Mae Whitman

Dallas Roberts

Sonya Walger

Michael Trevino

Ksenia Solo

Mageina Tovah

Katherine Waterston

Gary Anthony Williams

Cindy Sampson

Maxim Roy

Glenda Braganza

Meghanne Kessels

Paula Jean Hixson

Vanessa Matsui

Gerardo Lo Dico

Omari Newton

Charles Papasoff

Lita Tresierra

Vincent Messina

Morgan O'Neill

Paul Leyden

Bill R. Dean

Susan Downey

Joel Silver

Daniel Carpentier

Kimberly Foster-McCollum

Ronnie Yeskel

Derek Somaru

Alexandre Juaneda

Dennis Berardi

Jean Frenette

Patricia Hargreaves

Jean-Pierre Paquet

Gregory H. Watkins

Sarah McMurdo

Robert Parle

Sandra J. Blackie

Curtis Roush

Brent Lambert

Lucie Paquet

Erik Henry

Marty McInally

Marco Venditto

Alain Bourassa

Christopher M. Meagher

Réal Hamel

Adam Ohl

Geof Isherwood

David A. Whittaker

Martin Whist

Colleen Quinton

Claire Alary

Alexandre Bouchard

David Gambino

Jan Thijs

Tod Feuerman

Odette Gadoury

Michelle Côté

Hélène Lamarre

Peter G. Smith

Lucie Tremblay

Philippe Bossé

Pierre Laberge

Charlotte Rouleau

Mario Chabot

Simon Hughes

Sylvain Bernier

Alex Touikan

Paul Hackner

Glenn Cote

Jeff Pentecost

Stephanie Girard-Hamelin

Erik Kaufmann

Tom Ozanich

Josée Pilon

Frédéric Amblard

John Trapman

Roch Chalifour

Andrew Millard

Kramer Morgenthau

Igor Meglic

Isabelle Guay

Mark Isham

Spiro Razatos

Don Carmody

Richard Mirisch

Steve Richards

Richard Lalonde

Brigitte Goulet

Christoph Fisser

Anny St-Pierre

Russel Bowie

René Fréchette

Daniel Richard Giverin

Andrea Kenyon

Jean Kavanagh

Jon Gordon McKenzie

Hilda Hodges

Sophie Farkas Bolla

Marie-France Simard

J.F. Leduc

Chantal Bergeron

Tina Gerussi

Ethan Erwin

Julie Feiner

Buck Deachman

François Gauthier

Hélèna Laliberté

Mathieu Décary

Amelie Duceppe

Aaron Auch

Jocelyne St-Pierre

Karen Tyrell

Christopher Alba

Kimberly Lowe Voigt

Sam Bollinger

Mark Larry

Crime

Thriller

Mystery

The Factory

Dark Castle Entertainment

Silver Pictures

StudioCanal

United States of America

clyde e collins

**Fundamentals, reception.**

1. American/Canadian live action feature length film, 2012, rated R, 108 minutes, crime, mystery, thriller.
2. IMDB: 5.7/10.0 from 5,365 audience ratings.  Estimated budget, 25 million USD.
3. Rotten Tomatoes: 'No score yet...' and 42% liked it from 1,128 audience ratings.
4. Netflix: 3.5/5.0 from 636,300 audience ratings.
5. Directed by: Morgan O'Neill.
6. Starring: John Cusack as Mike Fletcher, Jennifer Carpenter as Kelsey, Dallas Roberts as Carl, Mae Whitman as Abby Fletcher, Sonya Walger as Shelley Fletcher, Ksenia Solo as Emma, Gary Anthony Williams as Darryl.

**Setup and Plot**

1. Mike and Kelsey have been on the case of a serial killer for quite some time, but the department is shutting their efforts down for lack of progress.  It's Thanksgiving, and Mike asks Kelsey to stop by to say hello to his wife Shelley,  and daughter Abby.
2. There is tension between Shelly and Abby, and between Shelley and Mike.  Mike and Kelsey revive the case somewhat over a murder of a transsexual.  Abby gets more discouraged with Shelley, and takes off.  She breaks up with her boyfriend, and the serial killer kidnaps her.  Shelley finally notices Abbey is gone.  She alerts Mike, and the police engage more strongly.
3. Mike and Kelsey get a lead on the accomplice of the killer.  Mike goes off on him, and physically assaults him.  After trying to follow the accomplice, they give up after a while.  The accomplice was on a long shift and stayed in the hospital where he worked to avoid being followed.  Mike loses his composure at home.
4. Abbey, meanwhile, has a wretched time in captivity with other young women who have been kidnapped.  Mike starts looking at his daughter's life as he would if he were not his father; then the clues start coming.
5. Will Abbey get rescued?  Will Mike still have a career?

**Conclusions**

1. **One line summary**: Cop needs to find his daughter emotionally to find her physically.
2. Three stars of five.

**Scores**

1. Cinematography: 8/10 Better than VHS quality, but not by much.
2. Sound: 4/10 Sound levels were absurdly out of control.
3. Acting: 6/10 Cusack and Carpenter were fine.  Dallas Roberts, whose role was pivotal, was unconvincing, beginning to end.  Mae Whitman was rather good, but Sonya Walger not so much.
4. Screenplay: 6/10 The story was clever and engaging, but the poor choices in casting nullified much of that.  I enjoyed the onscreen time of Cusack and Carpenter, but when Roberts was onscreen, the urge to leave to get a cup of coffee was enormous.  The ending was tough to stomach, but it certainly explained the difficulties in the investigation.

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The Factory Trailer

The Factory (2012) Official Trailer