Asphalt City is the type of movie that endlessly forces the heavy message onto the audiences face with it's overbearing emotions and cynical approaches which ends up creating an poor, messy and comedically unserious story about a serious subject of paramedic workers and the trauma they experience.
The writing and direction is trying to be like Bringing Out the Dead with the themes of the dark sides and struggles of paramedic workers but this movie fails to capture the trauma and tone properly due to it's forced message that is shoved right into your face, bland direction, unlikeable characters and unengaging structure that makes the movie difficult to observe. With bland direction, the performances were the best parts as Tye Sheridan and Sean Penn are giving solid performances throughout the movie and there are some nice camerawork throughout. Unfortunately, they are overshadowed with poor dialogue, poor editing and really uninteresting character developments.
As someone who had worked in the medical field and known a feel friends who worked as paramedics, the movie really does a disservice to real paramedic works and fails to really give them the respect it thinks it does. Because this movie is cynical with it's portrait and fails to deliver.
The writing and direction is trying to be like Bringing Out the Dead with the themes of the dark sides and struggles of paramedic workers but this movie fails to capture the trauma and tone properly due to it's forced message that is shoved right into your face, bland direction, unlikeable characters and unengaging structure that makes the movie difficult to observe. With bland direction, the performances were the best parts as Tye Sheridan and Sean Penn are giving solid performances throughout the movie and there are some nice camerawork throughout. Unfortunately, they are overshadowed with poor dialogue, poor editing and really uninteresting character developments.
As someone who had worked in the medical field and known a feel friends who worked as paramedics, the movie really does a disservice to real paramedic works and fails to really give them the respect it thinks it does. Because this movie is cynical with it's portrait and fails to deliver.