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Dark Harbor (1998)
Rate:
4
Viewed:
4/25
4/25:
Implausible?
That's what I was thinking the entire time until the last five minutes of Dark Harbor. Why would a
couple be perfectly okay with helping out an evil-looking drifter lying on the side of a road
and having him at their home? What's the...catch?
Finally, I figured it out with about twenty minutes left. When the husband explained how he caught his wife
doing this stupid shade stunt, I immediately sensed that he was laying a trap on her. The ending would explain
everything after all, but it's so pointless to sit through 95% of nothing, hence my rating of '4'. A couple
of things to clear up the mystery: the goal of the wife to write down what the illiterate drifter said became
her suicide note and the whole scheme was to inherit everything she owned afterwards.
Unsurprisingly, it's the final picture directed by Adam Coleman Howard who happens to be the grandson of Ann
Landers. It must be nice to have connections, especially when it comes to getting esteemed thespians to star in
two shitty pictures of his with the other being Dead Girl which is about fucking a corpse (Val Kilmer was
part of the cast if you can believe that).
The only reason to see Dark Harbor is Alan Rickman who gets to stretch himself a bit, especially at the
end. However, don't be misled by the movie poster; it won't be anything like that. Polly Walker isn't bad but is
obviously too young to be his character's lover. They're twenty years apart in age. Norman Reedus is slightly
annoying in an Edward Furlong way. Somebody should've asked him, "Uh...what happened to your eye?"
All in all, the twist at the end of Dark Harbor isn't enough to make up for the frustration of sitting
through the boredom of watching three thespians putting on a long show of no substance.