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Lucifer before the fall, 30 August 2007
8/10
Author: johno-21 from United States

I recently saw this at the 2007 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films and it certainly is a visually stunning achievement from a talented group of Oscar-winning filmmakers. This is an 8 minute short by a young director/writer Ray Griggs of a segment from his planned feature film about the story of the Heavenly Archangels before the fall of Lucifer. Jason Lewis is Lucifer and Bru Miller is Michael as the two are on a dragon hunt. I spoke with Griggs at the screening and he has plans for a full feature with the other Archangels Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel and battle scenes of Heavenly angels and fallen angels. David S. Ward who won an Oscar as writer of The Sting and was Oscar nominated for his screenplay Sleepless in Seattle is co-writer with Griggs. Russell Carpenter who won an Oscar for Titanic is the director of photography and Joe Viskocil who won an Oscar for Independence day is the special effects director. This is a visual spectacle and wonderfully done and acted but since it's just part of something larger, and knowing that, it's hard to fully review it. I would give this an 8 out of 10 and look forward to see if Grigg's idea is fully realized.

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Stiff acting, Terrible visuals, 7 February 2009
4/10
Author: daiukifune from Canada

I understand a lot of people's attraction to the story of Lucifer before the fall and after, there is something interesting in seeing good being corrupted and exactly how it transpired. This short film, however, is a terrible depiction of what a movie like that would be if done wrong.

The director relies heavily on visual effects, which are sub-par even for 2006~2007. The choice of shots for battle scenes are horrendous, in which the long shots completely expose how rag doll-like and stiff the computer animation is. A scene of the actors running across and digitally rendered landscape is almost laughable because the physics are reminiscent of a flash animation. The entire movie has so many filters throw over it to hide the seams in the CG that it's difficult to watch. Visually, nothing is stunning, considering the movie is done in brown, brown and more brown. The actors themselves are constantly surrounded by a glow of some sort, which if the rest of the CG was done right, could pass for some kind of holy light. But with the rest of the film as is, one can only assume that they were too lazy to blend the background with the actual actors. No real vegetation is show after the first one or two scenes (perhaps it's too difficult for the animation team to work around), and the backgrounds consist of rocky surfaces and a gray sky.

Personally I don't believe either actor is terrible in their own right, but the script of this short film was so dead that it's difficult to imagine what it would've been like for the two to do this in front of a camera. There looks to be no direction other than "look proud" to the Lucifer with long shining hair (a mistake from the CG department, it looks like) and "be a little jealous" for Michael. I sincerely hope that before making the full length film (it seems the idea has been abandoned at this point), the director will take a serious and sobering look at what he has done, hire a better CG team, redesign the characters, and rework the script.

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Lucifer was tripped, 6 June 2009
1/10
Author: thenewguy22 from United States

Heard this was screening at the Produced by Conference and was intrigued by the premise. Wow. Anyone with a modicum of talent or legitimate film experience will quickly dismiss this bogus, biblical blivit. I'm sure the director is a hell of a nice guy, but 'Lucifer' more closely resembles a particularly bad, mid 90's PC game than the foundation for a proposed a big budget feature.

While the notion of a movie from the devil's POV is not God awful, the execution is (dare I continue the bad puns) a sin. From the laughable casting of Samantha's boyfriend to the clichéd dialogue and poorly integrated CG, the creative choices throughout 'Lucifer' are derivative and simply...wrong. An impossibly ambitious milieu, it's kind of like watching a tone-deaf, American Idol try-out attempt to tackle a Whitney Houston song. Nothing about this short exemplifies talent or an original perspective. Even the presentation credit is a mash up of other established production company logos.

Lucifer certainly feels self funded and was clearly not cheap in spite of it's innumerable shortcomings. Should Mr. Briggs wish to continue in film, I recommend he stick with merely writing the checks.

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