Acolytes 2009 123movies

Watch: Acolytes 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – James Tresswick and Mark Vincent are victims of a brutal bully Gary Parker who has maltreated both boys, marking their bodies and spoiling their young lives. In their last year of high school, James and Mark find a way to stop being victims. They’re going to kill Gary; Wandering alone around an isolated forest – the suspected site of the disappearance of a local girl – 17 year old Mark strays upon an adult male filling in a trench. It’s suspicious and tantalizing. Mark returns with his friend James and Chasley Keys and they bring shovels to exhume what will probably be rotting garbage or someone’s dead pet – or so they tell themselves. They find the ghostly white body of a woman. She’s a tourist – a Canadian backpacker. The “trench” is a grave. The “adult male” is her killer. And they’ve got him by the balls. Responding to Mark’s intimations James floats an idea to seek out “the sicko”. It’ll be a bit of fun. He’s confident the guy lives in their suburb; Mark saw his car parked on a trail; Mark knows what the car looks like; Mark knows what he looks like. It can be done. Chasely goes along with it. No surprise. James has done all her thinking since they started a relationship. Mark agrees because he’s got a thing for Chasely and he’d like to appear a bit more like her boyfriend, but mostly Mark agrees because he carries a culpable secret. They find the car and the killer 24 hours later. He’s got the same house as everyone else and a kid and a wife. Jeez, it’s anticlimactic. Then, in Chasely’s bedroom, as the girl cleans up the latest damage done to Mark’s face by an animal called Gary Parker, James floats another idea; What if the killer were contacted and told the name of a guy that they’d like to see dropped in a hole of his own? He’s their secret, isn’t he? They kind of own him, don’t they? If he thinks they might let him go he’d do anything, wouldn’t he? What could go wrong? James, Mark and Chasley are about to cross a line of no return as serial killer Ian Wright lures the vulnerable teenagers into his violent world..
Plot: Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.
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Ratings:

	5.5/10 Votes: 2,381
	75% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 40 Popularity: 5.335 | TMDB

Reviews:

Acolytes: Almost good
Acolytes is an Australian thriller, labelled an “Ozploitation” flick I’m still not 100% clear on what an exploitation flick truly is.

It tells the story of a group of friends who blackmail a serial killer. Of course what could possibly go wrong there? It pretty much writes itself.

The movie isn’t bad, it just feels a tad disjointed and when the credits rolled there were still a couple of rather important plot points that hadn’t been fully addressed and that’s really rather frustrating.

Starring Joel Edgerton in a career best performance as our antagonist this neat little thriller looks and sounds the part so it saddens me to say it didn’t even remotely meet its potential.

Perfectly watchable stuff but it just missed the mark a tad. I’m left feeling like if the film had an additional 30 minutes it could have been something special but this finished product feels like a book with a couple of chapters ripped out.

Credit to all involved including the young cast, but it just didn’t tick all the boxes for me.

The Good:

Decent soundtrack

Hanna Mangan Lawrence and Joel Edgerton

The Bad:

Couple of unanswered questions

Feels disjointed in places

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

The death of his wife clearly pushed Ned Flanders over the edge

Australian teens are naturally more obnoxious than any other nationality!

A brilliant idea, poorly executed.
What starts off as a sleepy drama about a damaged psyche turns into a fast-paced, terrifying, and entirely believable horror film. The filmmakers don’t coddle the audience and don’t dwell on the plot twists; that is to say, if you’re not paying attention, you’ll miss some key points. There were a couple scenes where I had to rewind and explain parts to my friends. This movie was visually compelling, and the young actors and actress did great jobs conveying their anger, fear, depression, and angst. So I was never able to pinpoint what my problem with this movie was. I’m not sure if it’s the slow pace or the resolution at the end, but I ended up feeling disappointed with the directors. This movie could (and should) have been much more.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 31 min (91 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 860
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Crime, Drama, Horror
Director Jon Hewitt
Writer S.P. Krause, Shayne Armstrong, Jon Hewitt
Actors Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Sebastian Gregory
Country Australia
Awards 3 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Thomson VIPER FilmStream Camera
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Video (HDTV)
Cinematographic Process HDV
Printed Film Format 35 mm