The Company Called Glitch That Nobody and Everybody Wanted

A feature-length drama thriller written and directed by Graham Holliday and starring Coley Bryant, Carys Glynne, Jack Murillo, Lee Shorten, David Payton and James Fahselt.

Ev (Bryant) is the owner of a newly established online business named Glitch and is confident that it will make him and his associates a lot of money. However, he has a problem: a powerful competitor is attempting to pressure him into selling Glitch to them. So, over the course of a day, Ev must find a way to convince potential investors to finance his company while simultaneously trying to deal with the competitor and resolve family issues, including speaking to his ill father.

A race-against-the-clock story involving technology, threats and family values. Interestingly, none of the characters interact with each other face-to-face, instead they are constantly by themselves in a large room (office, boardroom etc.) and communicate via devices such as laptops and smartphones. It is a creative way to construct a narrative and explore the characters and the atmopshere can get tense and emotional and be supported by Seth James Norris' music.

The film's title is long and the film itself feels overlong. There seem to be too many scenes. Some scenes just feel unnecessary, that they do not add much to the narrative while others seem to go on for longer than necessary. The entire film is basically a bunch of people communicating with each other through their computers and phones and the screenplay does not have enough significant plot points, leaving the protagonist Ev in pretty much the same situation throughout.

As the hero of the story, Ev is a well-meaning and ambitious guy who finds himself in a very difficult situation. Over the course of the story, he interacts with other characters, desperately trying to deal with his responsibilities. Two of these characters include Sean (Murillo) and Noah (Shorten), Ev's business associates and they have contradicting opinions regarding the future of Glitch. Cheerful Noah wants the company to be sold, while Sean has other ideas and their perspectives create further challenges for Ev. Ev's concerned partner, Crystal (Glynne) is the character that reveals his neglected personal life, as his work appears to have pulled him away from her and his loved ones. Jack (Fahselt), the owner of the company that is looking to buy Glitch could be described as the antagonist, a ruthless man determined to succeed in his goals.

This is a sort of high-tech thriller and it works as a commentary about technology in today's world, how people constantly utilise electronic devices to communicate whether it is for work or for personal matters. Staying with technology, the feature also explores the world of telecommunications and online business. From another perspective, this is a story that involves themes regarding ambitions, making money and greed and from another point of view, it is a story about family matters and terminal illness.

This film was probably made with the intention of being a tense thriller with a great deal of drama. It succeeds regarding the drama, however, as far as tension goes, the screenplay fails to deliver that due to too unnecessary scenes, too much dialogue at certain points and a narrative that never gets really thrilling. The result is an overlong feature that fails to be intriguing.