Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!

Dreadfully Boring

best movie i've ever seen.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

This movie is sure to be disliked by people whose favorite movies are all superhero or action movies but this movie is a masterpiece. If you like movies that have an amazing storyline, amazing atmosphere and actually take the time to tell a story this is the movie for you. This is one of my favorite movies of all time.

The best kind of films fall out of the ether and hit you hard . They appear from nowhere and leave you marked , forever . Ink , an unknown movie , came calling at my door serendipitous while looking for something to watch tonight . Words fail me , they fall far too short in any descriptive attempts I could muster to review the movie I have just been immersed in . So I will let my frequent tears during the film speak for me . This finely crafted work played , expertly , and beneficially on my emotions. The film made my own time change its shape and it lost all meaning to me . Only the movie had movement and form . It possessed me . Rarely does this happen these days . When it does if feels as if a tiny piece of heaven has entered in to one's heart and mind . This film is powerful : in content , in story and in its writing , its visual appearance ,and in the actors performances . Great films best come without fanfare and and flashing lights . They quietly involve and bond and bind you to them like modern day alchemy.....I was hoping to be curt and concise in this revue . Alas , my heart has made slaves of my fingers and will warrant them no rest . I can recommend this movie whole-heartedly . It is a genuine , original and adsorbing piece of work . So then , open your mind and prepare your heart ..... and let it in.

I created an account to review this movie. I have been lurking on this site for many, many years and have never felt compelled to review a movie until now. There are so many things wrong with this movie. Some of the actors are mediocre. Some of the lines are cheesy. There are some cliché tropes. The action is bland. With all that said there are exponentially more things this film does perfectly. The pacing of the film is magnificent. The atmosphere is immersive and the director created perfect transitions between the surreal dream worlds and reality. The menacing qualities of the incubi are terrifying. The effects are extremely well done, especially for an indie movie. The editing is erratic but at the same time the continuity is perfect. This movie thoroughly obtains the all the formalist aspects of film-making. I am not a director. I am not a screenplay writer, or an actor, or a cinematographer, or anything other than a cinephile. But, I know that when making a movie, especially on a low budget, that you must choose what things you value to perfectly tell your story. This director chose all the right things. I beg whoever is reading this to watch this movie. You will not be disappointed.

So it seems that there is a plague of undeserved positive reviews infecting review sites such as IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes. Call them what you want: shills, fakes, imposters, plants. Whatever you decide to call them, one thing is certain: the praise they pour onto bad films is usually easily spotted because of their generic sounding reviews. "This film is a miracle!", "Greatest accomplishment in cinematic history!", "My favorite film of all time!". All these people love this movie and yet no one has heard of it? It hasn't won any awards? Absolutely no one is talking about the movie except these "reviewers"? And you tend to find that the more truthful reviews (aka negative reviews) end up getting buried far down the review pages. So after being duped a couple of times, here's a tip on how to spot bad movies masquerading as good movies on IMDb. Look for the bad reviews. See what the discrepancy between the positive reviews and the negative reviews are. If the positive reviews are all giving the movie 9 and 10 stars and calling it amazing, and the negative reviews are giving it 3 stars and under - and there doesn't seem to be any in-between, then you've got yourself a real good candidate for a bad movie.Ink is one of those real bad movies that miraculously got amazing reviews on Rotten Tommatoes and IMDb. The good reviews are just praising this movie like it's a Best Picture contender, while I had to scroll pretty far down to find any negative reviews. That right there tells me that someone has a lot of friends drumming up some hype for them. Within the first five minutes of watching Ink I could immediately tell that this was amateur hour. When the best actor in the entire movie is a six year old girl, you know you've got problems. The movie starts off looking like a film school short (but alas, this movie is almost two hours long - and it felt like 2 years). The first lines yelled unconvincingly was three "f*cks" as a guy is driving a car down the road. Cliché. Then we get a ton of editing cuts, and I mean a ton. You know what the easiest way to spot a bad movie is? When a director needs to use 500 cuts for two minutes of footage. We start off with random strangers in their beds sleeping and the camera never stops moving for what is supposed to be peaceful sleeping. It just goes all over the place with cut after cut after cut. Next we get a fight scene in a house between some good Dream Warriors and a bad dream warrior. The cuts were down right nauseating. Incomprenhisible action. 10 cuts were used just for running down the hall. And then those Adobe After Effects filters. My God, someone just used the entire library of filters for one movie. Every single scene had a different filter effect. Between the editing and the filters, you could tell this director was just trying to put lipstick on a pig. I won't spoil the movie, for those that may actually want to sludge through the entire thing, but let's just say there's a twist ending - that you can spot from a mile away if you pay attention (and let me tell you, it's damn near impossible to pay attention to the entire movie. You deserve an award if you manage to make it all the way to the end without falling asleep).The acting in Ink range from "surprisingly decent for a child actor" to "mentally disabled adult" (aka 1,2,3,4 guy). I'm sorry, usually I can forgive a film for raw acting, but when it's a combination of bad dialogue and reading straight from a cue card - that's where I draw the line. And I've read that they made this movie for $250,000!! I'm sure all that money went straight into the prosthetics for Ink's nose. Now I'll give credit where credit's due. The main little girl actress is too good to be in something this bad. She was the only believable thing in this whole movie (and that's including a dead corpse in a coffin). The only person who didn't look like they were acting. The lead actor (John) was serviceable. He had some decent diarrhea faces when he was sad and some OK constipation faces for when he was angry. And there were actually some good inventive characters. Mainly the evil Dream warriors who gave nightmares to the sleeping people. I thought the combination of the video screens over the faces with the eerie smiles and static was fairly well done, and very reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's work. Also, every so often there would be a well-composed shot or sequence that made me think that the director might have a little bit of talent (such as the butterfly effect sequence involving the car crash). But the sum total of the movie does not a good film make. It's laborious, laughable, and lame. It's a shame too, because under the right guidance, the story itself could have been quite interesting. I could have seen it evoking a Labyrinth-type design and journey. Please please please, if you end up watching this movie because of all the positive reviews you read - just turn it off early when you start to ask yourself "It must get better right?? The reviews are too good!". It doesn't get better. There's no transcendent moment that makes you go "It was worth it.". There's no redemption at all. The reviews are a lie. Just like the cake.