Before I Disappear 2014 123movies

Watch: Before I Disappear 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – A troubled young man and his strait-laced niece embark on a thrilling odyssey through New York City in this heartrending drama based on an Oscar-winning short. As his life hits rock bottom, 20-something Richie decides to end it all, only to have his half-hearted suicide attempt interrupted by an urgent request from his sister to babysit her precocious daughter. So begins a madcap tour of Manhattan after dark, as uncle and niece find unexpected bonds in the unlikeliest of places..
Plot: At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his eleven-year-old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 9,761
	37% | RottenTomatoes
	47/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 139 Popularity: 7.692 | TMDB

Reviews:

Take a chance, you might really enjoy it
Firstly, I came to this movie without having seen “Curfew”. Several commentators have pointed out that that is important in the way you see this movie so I’ll get that out of the way to start with. I checked out the user score (7.2 at time of writing) and the Meta score (47/100 at time of writing). A bit of a mismatch I thought and maybe it was down to the film being “upped” by users. (We all know it happens right? Reviewers who come out of nowhere and submit one review giving a film 10 / 10 and then disappear as quickly as they appeared. All’s fair in love and marketing). Anyway, as a result I decided to take a chance on it but with some reservations at the back of my mind and not really expecting anything that would really get me. What followed was rare, the realisation that the users had nailed it and the critics had really come down way too hard on this movie for all the wrong reasons. “Underwhelming, inconsistent, superfluous, bloated, meandering, posey, abrasive, over amped” to mention a few of the words used. I really don’t know what film they were watching. Shawn Christensen, the writer, director and star of this film has already picked up an Oscar in 2013 for best Live Action Short but this film is dismissed as “not a bad freshman effort”? Ignore the critics and take a chance on this one. If you go in with an open mind and let yourself go with it’s unusual flow you might really enjoy it. Finally, the cast were uniformly good. Fatima Ptacek, who I hadn’t come across before, was brilliant, certainly one to watch, and Ron Perlman was Ron Perlman, nobody does that better than him.

Nice story building but without a strong conclusion
Richie is so stressed out with all the combinations of missing his girl Vista, out of a job, and most dominantly drugs consumption effects. He knows that this can out right be his last day to live due to being out of money to get more drugs. Suddenly his distanced sister Maggie calls, yelling at her asking for a favor to pick up her daughter Sophia from school. Richie and Maggie hasn’t contact each other for about five years. But Richie agrees to help. Looking dosed, he picks up Sophia, who immediately emits a very non-friendly aura on him. Richie goes home after Sophia tells him he can do so. At home he finds out that his friend wrongly supplied menopausal treatment pills to him.Maggie calls her again, furious to know that Richie left Sophia alone. Richie then picks up Sophia and takes her away from Maggie’s apartment on Maggie’s orders due to her being arrested. He tells Sophia that he used to draw cartoon on flip books. One of the characters he created was named Sophia, which Maggie really liked.

Richie doesn’t want Sophia In his place, so he takes her to other places instead. He takes her to a bowling alley but she prefers to do her homework there. The alley’s owner Gideon asks Richie about Gideon’s girl, to which he doesn’t answer completely honest. Richie then takes Sophia to his ex apartment to retrieve his old flip books but the visit terrifies her. Sophia is calmed after seeing the flip book. Richie’s drug effects takes a toll on him as he suddenly bleeds. Sophia rushes to save him and succeeds. Richie also goes and beats Maggie’s ex husband for mocking Sophia. Richie takes Sophia while he meets his drug seller Bill. He remembered seeing Gideon’s girl dying on Bill’s toilet. He immediately takes Sophia out of there. As Sophia asks, Richie explains the distanced relationship between him and Maggie. Richie takes Sophia back to Maggie’s place as Sophia asks. He can’t get in because the guards there kick him out due to property distraction earlier that day. He goes to Gideon and tells the truth. He then goes back home and imagines Vista again.

Okay, the story tried to mix in the fairly distanced concepts of a drug addict’s world and family reconciliation, the latter being the more dominant. I have to say that it is quite an attempt. Yet it sure does result in a not so tight finished product of a story. The two main concepts alternately fill the movie’s focus from time to time. But the movie finds it hard to have the two concepts at a combined focus on a single event on screen.

The story goes quite well enough with its way of approaching its themes alternately. Quite frankly it feels like quite a stable story of two alternating sub stories. The momentum building is nice and the conflict unveils itself neatly. At the focus of Richie’s addiction, it’s nice to see how he fights to get a grip on things of life, even though today may be his last day. At the family reconciliation between Richie and Sophia, it’s nice to see how Richie unfolds detail by detail of him and Maggie to Sophia, changing Sophia’s view to him.

But it proves that the movie finds it hard to give the one final touch for its ending. The final conflict, or should I say conflicts, seem off in connection to the hallucinated and spiteful story building of the entire movie duration. The confrontation with Gideon feels quite stupid to me despite it’s very nice of Richie to square things off with him. The conversation with the released Maggie feels quite right and it’s nice to see that Maggie gives in a little bit to include Richie in Sophia’s life. Yet it doesn’t really connect to Richie ‘s drug problem.

The acting overall is just a decent work. Shawn Christensen did well in depicting the dosed yet caring uncle who voluntarily steps out of his niece’s life to help her from bad influence such as he is. His expressions are very nicely done; the glazed stare, the angry outbursts, the painful moments. Fatima Ptacek did very good in portraying the distanced yet slowly drawn back in niece. She is nicely confident in her acting as seen on the difference between the assassin-face gymnastics and the bowling alley dancing scenes.

For me Before I Disappear (2014) is worth a 5 out of 10 score. It’s a good job in overall but it could have been even better if only the story can give a better final conflict and ending. A recommendation is unfortunately out of the question for me.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 8251
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Adventure, Drama
Director Shawn Christensen
Writer Shawn Christensen
Actors Shawn Christensen, Fatima Ptacek, Emmy Rossum
Country United States, United Kingdom
Awards 16 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa Studio, Hawk V-Lite Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format ARRIRAW
Cinematographic Process (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format N/A