Movie: The Mill (2023) – Hollywood Movie | Download
A businessman mysteriously wakes up in an open-air prison cell with only an old grist mill. Forced to work as a beast of burden, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child.
The Mill” plays a dangerous game with its single location and single on-screen actor, in that it mixes such limits with a repetitive act and also a mundane work environment. For all of its life and death stakes, accentuated by screams Joe hears every night, the course of events are too plodding. The weight of its workforce metaphor becomes just like the mill in the movie, too heavy to be moved aside from just a few steps at a time, with the movie committed to making it work. A lot of the exposition gaps are filled in by one of the voices that Joe can hear on the other side of the wall, this one provided by Patrick Fischler.
Howery is the center of this movie and also one of its producers. It’s clear “The Mill” has value to him as an endeavor to push himself as an actor, which is compelling given how busy he’s been the last few years in comedy and drama. But “The Mill” shows that he’s not yet comfortable with portraying such physical and emotional turmoil; he’s just not able to provide the necessary force behind Joe’s wails, heavy breathing, and moments of disbelief. Howery is strong as an everyman, so even though he’s not sucking us in from the script’s ominous beginning, he is easy to root for. But his awkwardness in the role shows that his dramatic abilities are still a work in progress.
The Mill” joins last week’s “Appendage” as another feature from Hulu’s “Huluween,” which so far has been an informal event to make place for original indie-budgeted genre features that wouldn’t get a theatrical release in 2023. So it’s intriguing, if not commendable, that an unusual story like “The Mill” got made, but it struggles to take on a more significant life as a parable with concrete parallels to real work life. It also doesn’t help that the final product is 105 minutes long when it has the ideas and the visuals to satisfy about half of that runtime. Instead of gradually winning over the viewer, “The Mill” tests your patience. And instead of achieving a poignant fury, the film’s inspiration runs out of energy, long before Howery’s Joe decides that enough is enough.
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The Mill (2023)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Date: 2023 (United States)
Stars: Lil Rel Howery, Pat Healy, Karen Obilom
Source: The.Mill.2023.720p.WEB.H264-ETHEL
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26569323/
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