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FilmApe’s review published on Letterboxd:
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Bellflower is the film equivalent of an oxymoron. While at times the film seems like it is trying to be ambitious, other times it is simple wallowing in mediocrity. The things I find ambitious about the film can be counted on one hand, where as the things I find mediocre could fill a whole sack; thus the one star.
This movie has basically been sold entirely on the car known as Medusa. That makes a lot of sense, as the car is the best thing about it. Unfortunately, the car is not really that important to the story, and has very little screen time.
Instead of seeing this car for most of the film, we get to see stuff like cockroach eating contests, and people lying in beds. Unfortunately, neither of these two mentioned things are at all interesting. The film does try to convince the audience that its story is not mundane and cliched by playing around with time and perspective, but this does nothing but anger me more. I hated all the characters, and the fact that what I was seeing was not actually happening, just made me mad. I wanted people to die in this. I wanted the film to actually have some balls and do something different, but alas, this was not the case.
In the end, Bellflower is just another entry into the ever growing pile of uninspired low budget films. I didn't like the look, or the vibe of the movie, and I didn't like the fact that the best thing that it had going for it, the car, was regulated to being just an inconsequential element in the film.