By far Benson and Moorhead's best film. In it, Michael (Peter Cilella) travels to an unfinished cabin where his friend, Chris (Vinny Curran) has been squatting and doing crystal meth. Michael's aim is to force Chris to detox, and so he chains him to a pipe in the cabin for several days. In between their arguing and catching up, Michael stumbles across different pieces of technology (film reels, pictures, laptop videos, journals, scrapbooks, etc) that begin to tell a bizarre and unsettling story that seems to directly involve them.
This is my first time watching Resolution since 2013, and I'm glad I gave it a second watch, as after the first viewing I was left confused and disappointed. Luckily, after this most recent viewing, I now more-or-less understand what is going on. The duo are being watched by an ancient being (possibly an Elemental since the cabin is on an Indian reservation), who has been "recording" them and attempting to make a movie out of what it is witnessing. It lured Michael to the cabin in the hopes that his presence would help create a satisfactory resolution to it's film. In the end, while the duo come up with a happy ending for their tale, the being does not approve and so dooms them to repeating their story until they find an ending that it likes (an impossible task as seen later in The Endless).
Peter Cilella and Vinny Curan are fantastic in their respective roles and are both very likable and believable as BFFs. Bill Oberst Jr. also has a memorable small role as a French researcher who might have the answers that Michael is looking for regarding what is going on with the technology he keeps finding.
Resolution is part buddy comedy, relationship drama, surreal sci-fi, and tense mystery-thriller. It's a film about two best friends learning to better understand each other, and an angry, vengeful being who only wants to watch them suffer. It's bizarre, surreal, oddly heartwarming, and ultimately kind of sad.
4.5 STARS
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