Grey Lady (2017) Reviews

• a big mess

  cdcrb2017-05-04

  remember in "the fugitive" when the train derails and flies off into the woods, for what seems a long time, well here the movie goes off the rails and never stops. sadly, the movie just keeps getting worse. it makes no sense, was confusing to me and the acting is non existent. it's supposed to be a murder mystery. I'm not familiar with eric danes' work, but he doesn't offer much here. Nantucket, a beautiful island, even in the rain and fog, offers nothing. I cannot remember giving a 1 rating before, but I am not alone. proceed at your own risk.

• Badly, written, directed and acted

  billboyd12017-06-27

  It seems that poor movies are propped up initially by gushing reviews from those associated with the movie and their friends, family and associates. So from someone who has not reviewed a movie before on IMDb and who is not linked to the movie in any way I need to say something. Nantucket is the stand out character in this movie and it is wet, grey, dull and lifeless - everyone and everything else fails to live up to this standard including the direction, writing, script and acting.

• Nantucket Nightmare or Greek Tragedy?

  lavatch2017-07-01

  The so-called Grey Lady hovers over the superstitious characters and the surreal world of this direct-to-consumer video release. In historic Cape Cod, the supernatural presence of the Grey Lady comforted the wives as they awaited the safe return of their seafaring menfolk. But in the film, she would appear to place a curse on the victims more than to provide a safe haven for members of the Doyle clan. The protagonist is James "Jimmy" Doyle, a decent hard-working Boston detective, whose sister and fiancée are murdered in what appears to be a string of cult killings dominated by the symbols of the "crown" and the "rose." Doyle follows the clues to picturesque Nantucket Island where in the sleepy community, two psychopathic members of the Doyle family continue their killing spree. Starting at the Crown and Rose pub, Doyle discovers the whereabouts of his long-lost auntie Lola who has taken up residence on the island. Lola alone knows the deep, dark secrets of the Doyles when young Jimmy's father was caught in flagrante delicto in bed with his aunt Lola at the unfortunate moment in which Jimmy's uncle Tim surprised them. A fight ensued, and the enraged Uncle Tim was stabbed to death. Little Jimmy always believed erroneously that his dad was the killer of his own brother. The brother-and-sister team of little Perry and Eli (Beth) never knew the truth either. But that didn't stop them from slashing their way through the Doyle family in a spate of revenge murders much like Orestes and Electra team up to murder their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus in Greek mythology. While the performances were good and the Nantucket scenery was beautiful, the film unfortunately lacked credibility. The tawdry nature of the family secrets, the incompetent police investigative work, and the overall sense of lawlessness both in Boston and Nantucket were extremely unpleasant features of this film. In 1931, American playwright Eugene O'Neill attempted to modernize Aeschylus' tragedy "The Oresteia" in a lengthy play entitled "Mourning Becomes Electra," placed in a New England setting. The filmmakers of "Grey Lady" are attempting to channel O'Neill, but the film lacked O'Neill's psychological depth. Early in the film, Detective Doyle comes across a line of poetry that reads, "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart." Another quote suggests that the only way to achieve wisdom is through suffering. Of course, these lines are from the Greek tragic playwright Aeschylus in the opening play of his trilogy, the "Oresteia." His fifth-century B.C. play chronicles the dysfunctional family of the House of Atreus and the killing of the husband Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra. In this modern nightmare on Nantucket, Tim and Lola do not quite measure up to either the larger-than-life figures of Greek tragedy or their post-Civil War counterparts as devised by Eugene O'Neill.

• No, just no

  ellerywilson2017-09-29

  This movie was so bad that I created a profile on IMDb just to warn you about it. There was little to no character development and it almost seemed as if the whole movie moved in slow motion. There were so many long pauses in between dialogue that served nothing more than to elongate the pain of watching this film. The love interest was boring, the whole "cop/law enforcement" routine was not believable in any way, and there was too little explanation as to why people were actually being killed. Law and Order from the 70s, go watch some re-runs because they make way more sense. How, I repeat HOW does anymore make Nantucket look dull and boring? This producer has achieved the impossible. There is so much beauty to see on the island and yet somehow the best this film has to offer are glimpses out foggy windows with particular focus on a rather large puddles in the road. The story is confusing and there seems to be a few implied sub-stories that are never explained. Further, the story is predictable and boring. Again, I'm not a movie critic, but it was THAT BAD. Save your time.

• SO poor it's bad (and muffled dialogue)

  emailkatie-513702018-06-04

  Sadly this was a big pile of poop! I didn't feel invested in the characters or the stories and whilst it still hasn't finished, I'm desperate to stop watching it but I just want to find out what it's about....can't tell if it's super natural, thriller, or what.......it's reeeeeeeally REALLY poor! The scenes never seem to go anywhere, just a big mishmash or badly scripted, badly directed and edited and wooden acted film.