Film Review – The Ticket

Co-writer/director Ido Fluk doesn’t have an original idea with “The Ticket,” but the chance to work with metaphor and biblical despair inspires him to approach the material with emphasis on its visual presentation. It’s a movie that doesn’t even open with a focused image for its first five minutes, introducing a world partially inhabited by the blind with a sensorial immersion that sets the mood for the rest of the feature. “The Ticket” isn’t wholly successful with storytelling essentials, and surprises are few and far between in the picture, but Fluk is good with his cast, getting the effort into all the uncomfortable corners of temptation its hunting for, achieving dramatic goals through living, breathing performances and an unusual appreciation for some aspects of the sightless world. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com