8 Winds

If you like suspense movies, this is one for you. It reminded me of the parallax view and other classic noir thrillers. The plot is challenging, so you'll have to stick with it. Script and acting are very strong.

The acting is stilted, the actors are stiff and the storyline is starved of creativity that this movie is hopelessly lost in its own struggles.

Giving this movie a 1 star rating is generous.

Nuff said.

I love this quirky film! It has a slow burn so that when you are drawn into the story, as you will be, you forget its budget limitations. Once it gets going it grabs your attention as small and important clues are revealed in unexpected places.

It is at once a Hitchcockian political thriller and a story of love and sacrifice. It reminds me a lot of Chinatown, The Long Goodbye, and Antonioni's The Passenger.

Also there is such great chemistry between the two lead actors that you really have someone to root for.

Robert Davi! He turns in an incredible performance with such nuances and vulnerability, it is some of his best work IMHO.

There is also some wonderful cinematography that creates pure cinematic poetry.

Dan Coplan's 8 Winds is a contemporary masterpiece, yet it is underappreciated by the masses. This 2021 release can be viewed as a cinematic relative of Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street and Roman Polanski's Chinatown. All three films give its audience a look inside the veil of both big business and government. From the opening lines between two villainous characters in Southern California saying "control the water, you control the economy" you immediately know that you are in for an expose on the state of power.

Mr. Coplan, who wrote, directed and starred in this movie, takes the viewer for a deep dive into the "Post-Truth Era" which has engulfed American politics for the nearly last decade. By setting the film against the backdrop of Russian interference, it is hard not to see how this film reflected on the 2016 U. S. Presidential Election and foresaw aspects of the current Russian-Ukraine war. Moreover, in about nine months, voters in the United States will be going to the polls to choose how collectively we want this country to be governed. As we reflect on the state of democracy, 8 Winds is the perfect film for our own moral contemplations on our current state of affairs.

Yes its builds in increments but the ending is cool. This film is a thniker and shows possibilites in this environment of Russia v the World. Why not look at the thought of the possible.