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Talentville Mini-Coverage for The Red Angel

by Talentville Coverage Staff

Professional Coverage, 3 pages
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Overall, The Red Angel is a rousing science fiction/crime tale with a dose of hard-hitting drama. It takes an edgy approach that denies Hollywood's penchant for formula, and is a smart script that, for the most part, was crafted with care and an attention to detail. Time travel is a fantasy concept and, as such, is subject only to the rules imposed upon it by a writer. And this script is buoyed by the fact that it doesn't resort to twists that have become so commonplace in the genre that are not exciting. It keeps the time travel element on the periphery as a catalyst to the plot, which is to its benefit.

While the script could do a better job providing clarification on how, in this contemporary setting, time travel could be plausible in only thirty years time, the screenplay is clever and intelligent; it piqued my interest and kept me involved. The characters are well-rounded and powerfully portrayed. There's plenty of action and suspense, and even a little humor and romance mixed in. It offers some some profoundly disturbing questions that have no easy answers. I'm reminded of the time travel hypothetical: If you could travel to 1889 and stand by a crib containing the infant Adolf Hitler, could you strangle the baby?