Blu-ray Review – Hanging Heart

Writer/director James Lee makes his filmmaking debut with 1989's "Hanging Heart." He's attempting to create a surreal thriller with giallo touches, leaning heavily on homoerotic imagery and bits of unreality to give his feature some unusual energy as it offers a routine overview of a killer on the loose. Lee has some help with technical achievements, giving the endeavor a professional look, but his storytelling abilities leave much to be desired. "Hanging Heart" doesn't offer tension, just confusion as characters causally walk in and out of the tale, while an overall sense of desperation is lost to underwhelming performances, with the actors seemingly unsure what kind of movie they're making as Lee teases a campy direction for the effort, only to take the whole thing quite seriously in the end. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com