Pocketman And Cargoboy

Getting the person watching this flick to completely ignore the finer plot points is crucial but near impossible. For starters, grabbing kids off the street is a big no-no even for a secret agent. Barring that, there are just so many messy points it’s hard to keep track of them all. For starters, I highly doubt a true secret agency, would entrust a kid with amazing government secrets and seriously expect said kid to actually keep them. I’m not totally sure the amount of time that passes in the film, but it felt like these “secrets” were entrusted almost right away. Possibly on the first day. Could you imagine that a week goes by and Pocketman gets frustrated, gets out of the school and brags? It just doesn’t make any sense. We also have a whole whack of strange happening with the time travel aspects. Not even talking about the how or why it would be left to 3 young agents to go back in time; why would such a device be entrusted to a mere agent? I’m talking about you Agent Hill. When only 4 such devices exist do you really expect me to believe one of them is handed out to a secret agent to play with as he pleases at his home? And yes. You read that right, a third trainee is introduced randomly during the final quarter of the film. There are more plot anomalies but I feel I’ve beaten that dead horse enough. Moving on. The actual acting of “Pocketman And Cargoboy” is for the most part a little scripty. Maybe. Things just don’t feel quite right with many of the line deliveries, but I have a theory about that. I’m not 100% sure it’s the deliveries themselves. It ‘could’ be a case of uneven audio. The background music and sound effects seem to make the dialog itself sound wooden or tinny. Imagine a fully balanced and equalized track being played under a much lower quality one. On the surface, saying it’s the cast is easy when in fact, I don’t think that was the case at all. To be fair and balanced, I want to mention that when this flick works well, it really works well. Clark and Moffatt manage to capture the essence of a fun film despite some of the technical limitations. This isn’t a short film, and this isn’t a basic plot line. It’s a full length feature containing numerous characters, fight scenes and effects. That’s hard to do with very little money. Hard to do and harder to finish. And as luck would have it, I thought the fight scenes were really well done. Maybe not always perfect but when these characters were engaged, the action looked pretty sweet. I also really dug the entire final act of the film. Ignoring plot issues, they were by far the best scenes of the movie. Maybe a little dark though.

Ambitious is ‘not’ the word to describe this flick. It’s far to light of a statement. “Pocketman And Cargoboy” was a downright cheeky attempt at film with little cash backing it. What’s a little scary is that as an entire film it worked well enough to be a success. All my blablabla’s on what was wrong with this and that, doesn’t amount to much when I write the following: It was a pretty good movie. I’m wondering if a sequel is being planned because I’d be up for that.