Control (2003)
6/10
an innovative story with a spoiled ending
10 April 2005
The idea of this movie is very innovative, i've never seen a movie with plot about ticket controllers. It does has the potential to be one of the best movies that worths 10 stars.

This movie has a really good beginning, It begins with a drunken women who fell in the track and get killed by a train, and then a controller sleeping on the floor with a bleeding nose. Later on in this movie answer the question about why this controller have a bleeding nose and what happen to the dead body in the track, which is some fact that we never know. The earlier part of this movie display the real aspect of lives of the ticket controllers in an funny and interesting way. Also, the pictures are excellent.

However, with the additional of a female character in the 2nd part of the movie, totally destroy the whole story. It turns an innovative and funny movie into a cheesy love story. It was about one of the ticket controller met this stunning beautiful "bunny", and they fall in love and she became his angel and get him out of the metro system and he find his true love. It is extremely cheesy and ordinary. Exactly an universal plot of most of the commercial movie. It doubt if this is the original idea of this movie or somebody else add it in after the screen writer die.

The poster totally spoiled the image of this movie. They choose the worse part of the movie -- the ending, as the poster, an angel was holding his hand under the escalator. Instead, they should choose either a shot from the tunnel or when the controllers was standing together on the platform will more likely to arouse the interest of audiences.

Also, they should shorten this movie and eliminate the female protagonist. But focus more on the ticket controllers.
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