Nick wins a dinner date with his favorite actress Jill Goddard. Open Windows demonstrates that Vigalondo's ambition and imagination is undiminished, but he could do with a little more restraint. The set-up has Some movies are poorly reviewed for the acting or worn out story lines.
Open Windows suffers neither of these maladies and is just a plain ol' bad movie. Open Windows is compelling in a the most voyeuristic way possible as we see Chord's exploitation of Jill through Nick's eyes, which given recent events seems eerily ripped straight from the headlines. OPEN WINDOWS is interesting but ultimately a missed opportunity.
The movie begins on -- and stays mostly on -- a laptop, using webcams, streaming videos. And "Open Windows" gets crazier and crazier, which I've always considered a positive thing. I have a much bigger problem with films that pretend to be Nick so openly does whatever Chord says in the first act that it's hard to believe he's ever even seen a movie much less runs a website devoted to them. The film stars Elijah Wood, Sasha Grey and Neil Maskell. Open Windows is the English-language debut of director Nacho Vigalondo, but you may already be familiar with his Spanish-language debut Timecrimes. Movie review of Open Windows, starring Elijah Wood and Sasha Grey, a movie that's completely stupid but quite a bit of fun.
Trailer Open Windows
Sasha Grey in Open Windows Photo: Cinedigm Entertainment. One of the toughest things to portray on film is people hacking. A person sitting in front of a computer, typing.
While Open Windows features strong leads from both Wood and Grey, it's Vigalondo's story execution that leaves viewers curiously intrigued and hopelessly lost. While this would typically work, because movies are supposed to transport viewers, Open Windows spams audiences with an overload of. At its most superficial level, Open Windows chronicles one wild and crazy night in the sad life of Nick Chambers (Elijah Wood), a nerdy blogger who's won a contest to have dinner with his favorite B-movie starlet, Jill Goddard (Sasha Grey, and it's pronounced "Godard"). Watch the trailer for Open Windows here: Please accept YouTube cookies to play this video.