Wild Tigers feels like an art school Sophomore made a student film. It has a solid story that it told with a lot of flair, but it lacks polish and makes a lot of cinematic missteps. If I were to judge this film as an art installation, I'd give it pretty good marks, but as a movie it just isn't well done: the acting is terrible across the board (especially the kid that looks like if Rowley from Diary of a Wimpy Kid was a Napoleon Dynamite character), the script is poorly written, the characters are inconsistent and bland, the sound mixing isn't quite right, and the story isn't told well. There are so many story threads that just disappear and even the main one doesn't reach any solid conclusion. I love most of the unique style touches and even when I wasn't sold on them, (mainly the weird symbolic scenes that I guess take place in the main character's head) they were still visually interesting. There are so many weird story choices that really drag the movie down. Keeping it vague enough to not be a spoiler, but Rodeo knew what was happening, he one hundred fucking percent knew who he was talking to and why is Rodeo, who is supposed to be a middle school student look like he is in his twenties? Wild Tigers I Have Known is great visually, but everything else needed a lot of retooling.
Wild Tigers feels like an art school Sophomore made a student film. It has a solid story that it told with a lot of flair, but it lacks polish and makes a lot of cinematic missteps. If I were to judge this film as an art installation, I'd give it pretty good marks, but as a movie it just isn't well done: the acting is terrible across the board (especially the kid that looks like if Rowley from Diary of a Wimpy Kid was a Napoleon Dynamite character), the script is poorly written, the characters are inconsistent and bland, the sound mixing isn't quite right, and the story isn't told well. There are so many story threads that just disappear and even the main one doesn't reach any solid conclusion. I love most of the unique style touches and even when I wasn't sold on them, (mainly the weird symbolic scenes that I guess take place in the main character's head) they were still visually interesting. There are so many weird story choices that really drag the movie down. Keeping it vague enough to not be a spoiler, but Rodeo knew what was happening, he one hundred fucking percent knew who he was talking to and why is Rodeo, who is supposed to be a middle school student look like he is in his twenties? Wild Tigers I Have Known is great visually, but everything else needed a lot of retooling.