Blu-ray Review – Sixteen Tongues

The world is in ruins in 2003's "Sixteen Tongues," but we don't get to see it. It's a shot-on-video production from writer/director Scooter McCrae, and he doesn't have the money to explore just how awful things have become for humanity. Instead, he remains in the tight confines of hotel rooms with the picture, which follows three characters in extreme states of agitation, each dealing with their own psychological and corporeal corruption as they navigate a corrosive reality that's soaked in pornography. "Sixteen Tongues" has some ambition to be wild with characters and explicit with its visuals, but it's hard to shake the inertia of the endeavor, with McCrae trying to stretch what appears to be an idea built for a short film into a feature-length presentation of madness. Some spikes of extremity work as intended, but the helmer doesn't have enough story to carry the viewing experience, and the general vibe of the shot-on-video effort tends to register more as a private fetish video than a bold creative statement. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com