Holy Crap!!!! Just finished watching this, and I am still hardly able to walk due to all the cramps and knotted muscles I suffered watching it unfold to its nerve shattering climax. This is a foreign film so, please, don't go into it expecting any kind of typical US tidily wrapped feel good fuzzy ending. I briefly glanced at some of the other reviews and was appalled at how negative some of them are. Yes, it takes its time building things up, that's not a detractor, it's a panic accelerator because we ALL know where this thing is headed and laying out the detailed background of the main players only makes the beautifully crafted arrival of the Quake all the more gripping. I literally had a tough time sitting through a couple of the real nail biting scenes cuz, man, it was that horrific. I did not know there was a prequel, and do not believe that it's proper to judge one film based on anything but its own merits. Though if it really was as good as some reviewers claim, I can understand the temptation to bemoan the fact that they thought this film was not a worthy continuation of the story. BUT, anyone who claims they were bored or that character development was a detriment? I gotta question their socio-environmental-childhood experiences that could create such disdain for what I thought was a terrifying whiplash elevator to Hell. And yes, there is a particularly hellish elevator scene that was brilliant in its ghastly consequences.
The Quake
(2018)
IF THIS MOVIE DOESN'T GIVE YOU A CARDIAC EPISODE, YOU'RE ALREADY FLATLINING
12 June 2019