Film Review – Shadow Land

For a tale of presidential paranoia and troublemaking, “Shadow Land” is surprisingly small in scale. It plays like a pandemic production, using only the basics in setting and casting to support what’s meant to be a mystery of some sort. Perhaps the screenplay by Ian Corson was something impressive at one point, building a puzzle involving American leadership, a psychologist, and a journalist who all work to define a vague threat hanging around a vacation home. Director James Bamford (“Air Force One Down”) doesn’t have the budget or the time to make a feature of note. He goes generic instead, visibly struggling to manufacture some form of suspense while editorial efforts try to shorten what appears to be a lengthier examination of trouble for all the characters. “Shadow Land” isn’t drearily acted, but it doesn’t piece together as tightly as it could, creating confusion where thrills were originally intended. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com