The Voices
Came out; 2014
Time; 1 hours 43 Minutes
Watched: Amazon
Rated: R for bloody violence, and for language, including sexual references
IMDB Rating; 6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 74%
Popcorn Meter 58%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Ryan Reynolds as Jerry
Gemma Arterton as Fiona
Anna Kendrick as Lisa
Jacki Weaver as Dr. Warren
Ella Smith as Allison
Story Line;
Jerry (Ryan Reynolds) is that chipper guy clocking the 9-to-5 at a bathtub factory, with the offbeat charm of anyone who could use a few friends. With help from his court-appointed psychiatrist, he pursues his office crush (Gemma Arterton), but their relationship takes a sudden murderous turn after she stands him up for a date. Guided by his evil talking cat and benevolent talking dog, Jerry must decide whether to keep striving for normalcy or indulge in the sinister.
Thoughts:
You ever find a movie by accident and realize it's old and you had never heard of it? That's how this one was, going through trying to find a movie and we came across this preview. We like Ryan Reynolds so we thought, why not?
This starts off strong and gets weird. It's definitely not what we expected, it was decent it just got dark.
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
Jerry
works at Milton, shipping and delivery department. He lives on his
own above MELLOW, a rusty disused bowling alley. He has conversations
with his dog Bosco and his cat Mr. Whiskers. One day, his manager
compliments his work and chooses him to help organise an employee
picnic and a conga line as Fiona suggested in a the meeting. During
the preparations, the whole team is in a restaurant and he asks the
English Fiona on a date. He invites her to the best spectacle in the
world and she doesn't know how to decline. His therapist asks Jerry
about his prescription taking.
Friday night, Jerry watches a
Chinese Elvis and a resurrected Bruce Lee while Fiona and the
co-workers girls karaoke. On his side he leaves an unlimited Shi-Shan
buffet and cross Fiona unable to get home. Jerry stops and gives her
a ride. Jerry is in Heaven, everything is bright and Fiona is an
Angel. Suddenly in the forest the car crashes into a deer. Jerry's
hallucinations show the deer crying out in pain and begging Jerry to
kill it, and so he slits its throat. Fiona, terrified, runs off into
the woods. Jerry pursues her and trying to reassure her, he makes a
lethal gesture. Apologising for hurting her, he ends her pain by
stabbing her again and again. Sorry. Sorry.
Upon returning
home, Bosco tells him to go the police and confess, and that he is a
good man who just made a mistake. However, Mr. Whiskers says there is
no shame in killing, but insists Jerry needs to dispose of the body.
Jerry goes back to the wood and rolls the immaculate Cinderella body
into a carpet. The sheriff asks him about his car crash. At his
appointment with his shrink, Jerry confesses that he doesn't take his
meds at all. Back home, he dismembers Fiona and places her meat in
Tupperware boxes, and her decapitated head in the fridge. After his
work Jerry takes his pills, and has nightmares of his abusive past.
When he wakes up during the night, his hallucinations have ended; his
pets no longer speak to him, and Fiona's head is cold and rotten. He
throws away the pills in terror, and the next morning, Fiona smells
like a baby-shampoo again. After breakfast, Fiona asks for a friendly
severed head to share her days, but Jerry insists that he can't.
Butterfly and sparklers are back in Jerrys life. He didn't want to be
a slave to drugs but he's still between Rosco and Whiskers.
At
the end of the next day at five, it's time to invite Lisa, a
colleague of Fiona's from accounting, for a drink. He develops
feelings for her and takes her to his abandoned childhood home, where
it is revealed his German mother had confessed to her insanity and
was about to be taken away by the authorities when he was a child.
When they arrived, she tried to slit her throat, and begged Jerry to
finish the job to end her suffering. Jerry sobs in front of Lisa, who
comforts him. They go back to her house and spend the night together.
He's in a dream. Lisa is on a cloud. When Jerry returns home, he
still feels pressured into killing someone else by Fiona and Mr.
Whiskers, and seems unsure of what to do next. Lisa interrupts the
sinister meeting. She finds out Jerry's address through Milton's
files and brings some cakes to his house. Inadvertently Jerry locks
himself out. While he tries to get back in through the skylight, Lisa
succeeds in forcing the door open. She sees Jerry's place in real
dimension and wanders in and discovers the remnants of the bodies and
Fiona's head on the living room table. Lisa says they can forget it
and go back to normal. When she tries to leave, Jerry throws her
aside and accidentally breaks her neck. Fiona now has a fridgemate.
Other co-workers from Milton begin to wonder about Fiona and Lisa.
When their colleague Alison goes to MELLOW, Jerry immediately kills
and dismembers her. A new companion in the fridge and the voices add
in the apartment.
Jerry looks very bad. He falls apart in
front of his counsellor Dr. Warren and confesses his killings but she
tries to make a call. He takes her hostage into the countryside and
forces her to help him. She calms him down and shows understanding,
which makes him feel better. Ten years of therapy in ten seconds.
Meanwhile, John and another colleague finds Alison's car behind
Jerry's house. They break into it, they retreat immediately and call
the police. When Jerry returns home, holding Dr Warren, cops surround
his house and prepare to move in. Jerry flees down into the basement,
breaking a pipe. Dr. Warren is taken to hospital. The police are
knocked back when the pipe Jerry broke causes a gas leak, which leads
to a huge explosion. Down in the bowling alley, Jerry collapses and
dies from smoke inhalation.After a long corridor, in a white void,
Bosco and Mr. Whiskers says Goodbye to each other. Jerry meets his
parents, then appears with Fiona, Lisa, and Alison, and Jesus, and
they all dance together. Sing the Happy song. Sing the Happy song.
Come on clap your hands. Sing the Happy song.
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