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The 24th Day

Review By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com

When new writers join us here at TheCinemaSource, there is one cardinal rule of reviewing movies which I always impart; there is no such thing as a movie which is completely perfect or a movie which is completely irredeemable. I feel that it is our job as “critics” to present you, the reader, with both the good and the bad in a given film. After seeing Tony Piccirillos’, The 24th Day, I may have no choice but to break that rule.

This was hands down the most impressive movie I’ve seen in years. I left the theater feeling completely reinvigorated with a renewed sense of optimism for the entertainment field. I’m certainly not saying that this is a feel good movie by any means, because it most certainly isn’t. But it does something that most movies, multi-million dollar blockbusters in particular have lost the ability to do… it made me think. Only a few minutes into the film, I found myself feeling so connected to the characters and their situations that while I was watching and admittedly judging their behavior, I had no choice but to sit back and reflect on my own as well.

More so than any other movie I’ve seen, The 24th Day really puts the ambiguity of “truth” under a very intense and at times uncomfortable microscope. This movie doesn’t only present the viewer with questions of who is being truthful, but also what is the nature of truth itself? It’s always one man’s truth versus another, versus what Scott Speedmans’ character, Tom, describes as the “true” truth.

This movie poses the question, what would you do if one day your entire life as you knew it came to a crashing end? If everything you had been hiding, your darkest secrets had suddenly come to light because of a mistake you made 5 years ago? How rational could you be?

In The 24th Day, James Marsden (X-Men, Gossip, and Disturbing Behavior) plays Dan, a successful, charming Hollywood-type who could probably get away with accidentally killing your dog one minute and then sleeping with you the next. His personality is so magnetic and he is physically so gorgeous, that after spouting about ten lines of bull shit you will have forgotten you even had a dog to begin with!

Tom, on the other hand, brilliantly portrayed by Scott Speedman (Felicity, Underworld) is the quiet, introspective type whose lack of self confidence has led him to a “safe” existence as a chef in a local restaurant and married to his high school sweetheart. Tom gave up his