Film Review – The Patient

Writer/director Mukunda Michael Dewil specializes in low-budget filmmaking, previously helming pictures such as “The Immaculate Room,” “Vehicle 19,” and 2024’s “Prey.” He returns to limited scope and low stakes in “The Patient,” challenged to make a thriller that takes place almost entirely inside a single hospital room. There’s potential in close-quarters tension, especially when elements of confusion are introduced via a character’s brain injury, sending him into war with his own mind as Dewil explores the messiness of memory. “The Patient” doesn’t aspire to reach Hitchcockian highs with its premise, and while Dewil scores some early interest in the central medical bed crisis, he doesn’t sustain it past the opening act, running out of things to do before the effort reaches an anticlimactic ending. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com