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    Successful IT professional George Grieves goes into the hospital for a colonoscopy on his 40^th birthday.  He wakes from the anesthesia to find himself the victim of a terrible mistake.  It seems that the hospital mistakenly gave him the wrong surgery and to top it off has put him on a floor with an abusive staff.  Things begin to spiral out of control when an infection causes the amputation of his leg and he sees another patient murdered by a very large male nurse who then begins to intimidate him.  What makes matters worse is that George is unable to get his family or friends to believe or help him.  Will George ever make it out of the hospital or is he doomed to be another victim? 

    Sublime is a perfect example of a movie that tries really hard but just misses.  The story is interesting and different from most anything else that I’ve seen before.  The characters are well developed by the script, which is only helped by an excellent cast.  I was especially impressed by television star Thomas Cavanagh who shows here that he has the talent to carry a movie.  This was very important since Cavanagh spends a great deal of the movie in a hospital bed, which actually leads me to the real downfall of this movie.  A great portion of the movie takes place in that single hospital room.  With the exception of a series of flashbacks and a couple of “escape” attempts all of the other characters interact with each other in this single set.  An interesting story and good cast simply can’t overcome this limitation.  The movie very quickly gets boring and repetitive.  Honestly how many times can a movie use flashbacks to try and clue the audience in on the twist ending?  And yes there is a twist ending that I saw coming way before it was revealed, especially as the story becomes more and more surreal.  I also really have to question the decision to allow this movie to be nearly 2 ours long (113 minutes!).  This is a film that could of really benefited by having 30 or 35 minutes trimmed.  The movie still would have been effective without most of the flashbacks and in fact would have been far more enjoyable.   

    Most of the time when I give a movie 1 star it is because the film is just a mess that shouldn’t of been finished or released.  While Sublime is a 1 star movie it could of easily been a much better film.  If I have ever seen a movie that could of used a better director or editor to cut scenes and tighten up a movie this is it.  Still I can only review what I’ve got and that is a movie that is too long and boring.  I recommend that you skip Sublime. 

Rating - *

-John "El Juan" Shatzer