I love a good war movie. I equally love a good horror movie. Unfortunately, Bunker was neither.
I understand that not every movie can have a $100 million budget, but the low production values of this film just hamstring it from the start.
This premise DOES have potential. But it needs a MUCH bigger budget to be fully realized.
This is, at best, a made for TV production. I'm thinking SyFy, where quantity seems to be preferred over quality.
Just a few of the many glaring issues:
The monster/entity is in absolutely no way frightening, regardless of the efforts by cast and crew. And its "horrifying" appearance in the finale was a guy in a rubber monster suit.
A lieutenant giving orders to a captain? I have to admit I lost interest very early on (so maybe there was some explanation for it, or perhaps I misconstrued the conversation), but I just couldn't wrap my head around this. And I swear the captain had corporal's stripes.
The small company was able to cross "no-man's land" in about 30 seconds crawling on their bellies. They arrived at the other side with barely a speck of dirt on their nicely pressed uniforms. Have you ever seen photos of "no-man's land" in WWI? It's hundreds of yards of mud, blood and barbed wire. Surely it wouldn't have cost that much to smear some mud on the uniforms.
A captured German played by an Australian actor. Again, I get the budget issue. But his German "accent" was about the most horrific thing in the film. Couldn't you have hired an English-speaking German actor who would have had a credible accent?
There are lots of issues, and I really feel like this started out with a great premise that was slowly eroded by the lack of funds available to realize the vision. The production values are low, the plot and writing seem lazy and uninspired. I originally thought the acting was bad, but in retrospect I really think it was more a case of the actors trying to work with poor material and dealing with poor direction.
I was honestly looking at my watch only 10 minutes into the film. And as a theater employee, I was able to see the film for free. But I still feel like I was overcharged.
I understand that not every movie can have a $100 million budget, but the low production values of this film just hamstring it from the start.
This premise DOES have potential. But it needs a MUCH bigger budget to be fully realized.
This is, at best, a made for TV production. I'm thinking SyFy, where quantity seems to be preferred over quality.
Just a few of the many glaring issues:
The monster/entity is in absolutely no way frightening, regardless of the efforts by cast and crew. And its "horrifying" appearance in the finale was a guy in a rubber monster suit.
A lieutenant giving orders to a captain? I have to admit I lost interest very early on (so maybe there was some explanation for it, or perhaps I misconstrued the conversation), but I just couldn't wrap my head around this. And I swear the captain had corporal's stripes.
The small company was able to cross "no-man's land" in about 30 seconds crawling on their bellies. They arrived at the other side with barely a speck of dirt on their nicely pressed uniforms. Have you ever seen photos of "no-man's land" in WWI? It's hundreds of yards of mud, blood and barbed wire. Surely it wouldn't have cost that much to smear some mud on the uniforms.
A captured German played by an Australian actor. Again, I get the budget issue. But his German "accent" was about the most horrific thing in the film. Couldn't you have hired an English-speaking German actor who would have had a credible accent?
There are lots of issues, and I really feel like this started out with a great premise that was slowly eroded by the lack of funds available to realize the vision. The production values are low, the plot and writing seem lazy and uninspired. I originally thought the acting was bad, but in retrospect I really think it was more a case of the actors trying to work with poor material and dealing with poor direction.
I was honestly looking at my watch only 10 minutes into the film. And as a theater employee, I was able to see the film for free. But I still feel like I was overcharged.