For every great foreign film out there that get's my attention via IMDB or review, there turns out to be a bad one right around the corner. Tell No One or Nele dis a' personne is an impossibly complicted French film that's so hard to describe because I really don't even know what I saw. For some reason, they thought this Dustin-Hoffman look alike would be the perfect male lead yet I never sympathized or connected with anything he did. Taking place 8 years after his wife had been murdered/kidnapped at a lake, this dude still is visiting her parents and obsessing over her case. I appreciated the mystery aspect where he gets this email from someone and then sees her in a webcam but it should have kept this serial killer storyline instead of turning into a family melodrama crime procedural. There were so many annoying plotlines in this that just didn't need to be in there as I was constantly trying to figure out who exactly this movie was geared towards since it had literally one action scene and instead was all about getting older and losing loved ones. To me it seemed like this movie tried WAY too hard to confuse me by giving false information by every character which eventually gets tiresome when every 10 minutes you have a new suspect and change of story. This idea of everyone is a liar just didn't work for me as by the end, i was completely taken out of the story and just wanted it to end. Having a surprise ending just for the sake of trying to be tricky does not mean it's a good way to finish it. I would have rather had a more cat and mouse mind games with the killers instead of them giving us all these explanations of who could have done it only to go back and say that it was entirely different for no reason. Subtitles didn't bother me and some of the handheld shots worked but in the end, this was a waste of time. Not disturbing, exciting, or intriguing enough for my taste.
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