Final Draft (2007)

A screenwriter suffering from writer’s block decides to lock himself in his apartment for 18 days in order to meet a career-making deadline. His script involves characters from his past, including a terrifying and disfigured clown. As cabin fever sets, he soon finds himself living in a world where what’s real and what’s fiction begin to cross lines with chilling and fatal consequences.

I ENJOYED

THIS IS A VERY SHARP AND INTERESTING FILM. THIS IS ABOUT A YOUNG WRITER PAUL TWIST PLAYED BY JAMES VAN DER BEEK. HE HAS TO WRITE A HORROR MOVIE IN 18 DAYS. HE LOCKS HIMSELF IN HIS LOFT AND BEGINS. THE HORROR IS HE IS HAUNTED BY HIS PAST. A DARK CLOWN, A MENACE A NIGHTMARE FROM HIS CHILDHOOD. HIS EX- WIFE, HIS BROTHER AND HIS OWN DARK DEEP SECRETS.

I THINK WHAT STANDS OUT IN THIS MOVIE IS THE ACTING AND THE WONDERFUL MIND TRIP OF A PLOT. YOU SEE THE REALITY OF MAN TURN UPSIDE DOWN AND TWIST INTO A WORLD THAT HE SEEMS TO IMAGINE YET CAN NOT CONTROL.
AS HE WRITES HE SEES THE PEOPLE IN HIS LIFE WHO HAVE CAUSED HIM PROBLEMS THERE WITH HIM IN THE LOFT. HIS MIND STARTS TO UNRAVEL , HIS THOUGHTS BECOME CLOUDED BY IMAGES OF VIOLENCE AND INSANITY.

I WAS VERY WELL PLEASED WITH THIS MOVIE IT WORKED IN SO MANY WAYS. I LOVE THE ONE ACT FEEL TO THE MOVIE. THE END WHEN HE IS LOCKED INSIDE THE LOFT WORKS THE MOVIE WITH BEAUTY AND A TWISTED SENSE OF HORROR WHICH IS INSANITY ITSELF.

THE STORY BECOMES APART OF HIM AS HE ACTS OUT THE HORROR THAT HIS MIND HAS CREATED. THE DEPRESSION OF HIS LIFE, THE FEEL OF FAILURE BECAUSE OF WRITERS BLOCK. THIS MOVIE IS NOT ABOUT GORE OR MASSIVE BLOOD, IT'S THE MIND AND THE AFFECTS OF HOW FAR THE INNER THOUGHTS CAN BECOME REALITY, HOW EACH ONE IS MIXED INTO THE PUDDLE OF DARKNESS AND HOW THAT DARKNESS CAN TAKE OVER.

I REALLY SEE NO FAULTS WITH THIS MOVIE ACCEPT SOME SLOW SPOTS AT TIMES BUT THE FILM COMES TOGETHER IN THE END AS A WELL PLAYED OUT ONE ACT WITH MORE TO IT. IT SHOCKS ME FROM ALL THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS I HAVE READ ABOUT THIS AND I WONDER WHY PEOPLE WHERE SO NEGATIVE I THOUGHT THE MOVIE CAPTURED INSANITY TO THE POINT AND MADE THE VIEWER TAKE THAT TRIP ALSO.
July 21, 2008

DAWSONS CREEP

After having just seen John Cusack's virtual one man show and a brilliant one at that in 1408, one can only feel sorry for James Van Der Beek and his one man show which is sorely incomparable. The script, written by costar Darryn Lucio, is so contrived and poorly conceived that Van Der Beek never stood a chance. He plays a screenwriter with severe psychological baggage and writer's block who locks himself in his apartment to focus on his latest screenplay, which involves a killer clown and revenge, and suicide, to boot. The problem is the movie's pace is slow with redundant fadeouts and lots of silence, and never really grabs you with any kind of emotional value. Van Der Beek tries hard but he's not given much to work with. And Lucio's script is laced with an abundance of profanities which goes to show that mediocre screenwriters think a thousand F***s are so "realistic" wherein they only represent the writer's inability to create real situations and dialogues without throwing in a F*** in every other line. A real loser, not even worth a rental folks. October 8, 2007

This Final Draft desperately needs a re-write

It's hard to believe the actors thought this was brilliant work. I can just see several of them trying to put a different spin on this script to the director. If they did, He probably should have listened.

Final Draft is one of the most pointless films I have seen for some time. It completely misses any type of point it might have been trying to make and, worst of all, the ending will be more predictable than the sun rising tommorow.

I had hoped this might have been a darker, more horror version of Secret Window starring Johnny Depp, but this is more like watching someone struggle to pull a thum-tack out from the wall.

James Van Der Beek is given a role I can only assume no other actor would want...The idea of a One Man Show is normal a godsent to a actors, they get more screen time..less competition..but he is given worthless dialoge and too many "What the hell was that flash-cutting effect?" glances.

The rest of the "Cast" are simply not present enough to give any kind of impression, the same can be said for the Killer Clown(I am terrified of Clowns) But in this picture all I could do was think about how scary past killer clown movies have been.

In short, the Director of this film probably thinks he has made a "Miss-understood ArtHouse Horror film.......He hasn't, this is purely and simply a waste of everybody's time.

I strongly advise you to chose another film. This isn't scary..It isn't entertaing..It isn't clever. I actually can't tell you what it is. October 1, 2007

I'm not sure

This is without a doubt the weirdest movie i've ever seen. When i first picked it up and looked at the cover i automatically thought (evil looking clownusually equals good horror movie) But this is kinda the opposite. I'm not saying this is a bad movie, just very hard to write about as it's so strange. A writer locks himself in his appartment to write a story about "Punchy the Clown" ( on the cover) A clown who he saw kill himself at a circus by accidently burning himself to death. From then on he begins to lose his mind. He starts talking to pictures of people he used to know and then he begins to see them as if they were really there. The people include. His ex wife, a sexy callender girl, a high school bully, and a former friend who stabbed him in the back when his brother died. One by one he types on his computer the fate of each and has the clown do the killings. I don't want to give too much more away, nor can i say i recommend this movie or not. Just don't expect to understand it. September 30, 2007

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