... my score would probably be a 10/10. As an old fan of both anime and zombie flicks, I was really excited about watching this one and I really enjoyed it except for one aspect: I'm quite sure I do not exactly fit the primary target audience as all the teenage boy fan-service (i.e. ginormous, wobbling breasts and an average count of 50 pantyshots/episode and a quite considerable harem)was a little too much for my pure maiden heart. However, sometimes it worked quite well as a tension-reliever and quite often it was downright hilarious. Otherwise, the horror story was really decent. Yes, it was full of clichés, but somehow putting them into the anime format worked really well for me. Plus, putting aside the fan-service part, it was kinda cool how those girls (and and two token guys) kicked a*s. I would be totally up to a next season. Oh, there's an OVA too. If you watched H.O.T.D. for the boobs, go for it. Otherwise, it's going to hurt.
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After the Dark
(2013)
This is just awful
18 July 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler.
Here is what I think this movie wanted to be: A very smart, very deep, very artistic film conveying a super important message.
And here is what I think it turned out to be: A philosophy professor tries to prove some point to his students by carrying out a thought-experiment. The class faces a nuclear apocalypse while having a bunker that would keep them safe until the radiation is gone. Sadly, this bunker can accommodate only 10 of them, so they have to decide who lives and who dies based on some information on each of them written on cards of which everyone picked one randomly. Well, the message I think they intended to tell is: People are more than what they appear to be. Wow. Every second Disney movie tells the same, only those are fun to watch. Besides, they are discussing logic in class and they are supposed to carry out the experiment by using logic. That part is an epic fail too. I mean, I understand that it's a thought-experiment, but does it really have to be so terribly stupid? Well, let's say we overlook all the idiot stuff they come up with as the circumstances of a nuclear holocaust, it's only in their heads, right? Why not form it as they want. But. Many of the other decisions they have to make and could be really logical, are just, well, blehh... Just one example: this person has absolutely no usable knowledge for us but she has gold. Then, she's in! I think I don't have to explain what would most probably happen to her in real life... And then, the final experiment Petra comes up with is just the cheesiest thing ever. And when you think it can't get worse, it turns out that the whole game was just a plot of the professor to separate top student, unsmiling, uptight, totally unlikable Petra from her boyfriend because he has a crush on her. And when he fails, he kills himself.
So, I think this is how bad it is. 2 hours of face-palm, eye-rolling and being mad. There is one bright spot in the dark though, namely the scenario Chips comes up with in the end. Now, that's logic.
Here is what I think this movie wanted to be: A very smart, very deep, very artistic film conveying a super important message.
And here is what I think it turned out to be: A philosophy professor tries to prove some point to his students by carrying out a thought-experiment. The class faces a nuclear apocalypse while having a bunker that would keep them safe until the radiation is gone. Sadly, this bunker can accommodate only 10 of them, so they have to decide who lives and who dies based on some information on each of them written on cards of which everyone picked one randomly. Well, the message I think they intended to tell is: People are more than what they appear to be. Wow. Every second Disney movie tells the same, only those are fun to watch. Besides, they are discussing logic in class and they are supposed to carry out the experiment by using logic. That part is an epic fail too. I mean, I understand that it's a thought-experiment, but does it really have to be so terribly stupid? Well, let's say we overlook all the idiot stuff they come up with as the circumstances of a nuclear holocaust, it's only in their heads, right? Why not form it as they want. But. Many of the other decisions they have to make and could be really logical, are just, well, blehh... Just one example: this person has absolutely no usable knowledge for us but she has gold. Then, she's in! I think I don't have to explain what would most probably happen to her in real life... And then, the final experiment Petra comes up with is just the cheesiest thing ever. And when you think it can't get worse, it turns out that the whole game was just a plot of the professor to separate top student, unsmiling, uptight, totally unlikable Petra from her boyfriend because he has a crush on her. And when he fails, he kills himself.
So, I think this is how bad it is. 2 hours of face-palm, eye-rolling and being mad. There is one bright spot in the dark though, namely the scenario Chips comes up with in the end. Now, that's logic.
Edge of Tomorrow
(2014)
It's Groundhog Day- Advanced Level
10 June 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please do not read it before watching the movie.
I watched Edge of Tomorrow this afternoon and I'm so super happy I did. The idea of going over the same day again and again is not exactly new but this movie is taking it to a whole new level.
In a nutshell, Tom Cruise is an American military officer doing PR of a new combat armor in the middle of a war against an alien race. He is absolutely fine with his position as long as he can stay away from the battlefield. Well, the circumstances, supported by his lovely personality, lands him exactly there where he gets killed. Though the story is not over, as he will keep waking to the same day for a long-long time from now on. As it happens, he meets another soldier (Emily Blunt) on the battlefield who turns out to have experienced the same thing before. Later on they join their forces to save the world.
What I loved about this movie:
What I didn't like that much:
Bottom line: Terrific. Go watch it. Now.
I watched Edge of Tomorrow this afternoon and I'm so super happy I did. The idea of going over the same day again and again is not exactly new but this movie is taking it to a whole new level.
In a nutshell, Tom Cruise is an American military officer doing PR of a new combat armor in the middle of a war against an alien race. He is absolutely fine with his position as long as he can stay away from the battlefield. Well, the circumstances, supported by his lovely personality, lands him exactly there where he gets killed. Though the story is not over, as he will keep waking to the same day for a long-long time from now on. As it happens, he meets another soldier (Emily Blunt) on the battlefield who turns out to have experienced the same thing before. Later on they join their forces to save the world.
What I loved about this movie:
- Looking it in its own place, the story (along with pretty much everything else) is rock solid. You can probably find some plot holes, but
- It is just so entertaining and absorbing, that frankly, I don't care.
- Super witty. There are parts that are just hilarious, which is, regarding the topic, is quite an achievement.
What I didn't like that much:
- The ending. Too cheesy. That's why it lost a star.
Bottom line: Terrific. Go watch it. Now.
Red Dawn
(2012)
This movie is an insult
10 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler.
Once upon a time, in a not too distant fictive future, North Korea in alliance with Russia invades and takes over the United States overnight. They arrive unnoticed and take the absolutely unprepared country by surprise. They not only occupy the most strategically relevant points but very casually the whole thing (a tiny 3.8 million square miles with an equally tiny population of about 320 million). Oh, did I mention that it happens overnight? The US Army is nowhere in evidence, apparently beaten. The rest of the world just sits tight. This is a lesson on a very well organized and very well funded war with excellent logistics, advanced level. With no lack of resources, first things first, they take over everything, including every middle-sized town. A part of the population is imprisoned, the rest still walks around, under heavy surveillance. But no reason for panic, Subway is still open.
This is pretty much the basic scene, in which our heroes (a soldier and a couple of teenagers) manage to get away from the invaders, set up a guerrilla group and starts doing some chaos in the town (by far the most believable aspect of the movie by the way). As a top priority, the invading army tries everything to hunt them down and fails many times. In the meantime we can see things like: a major Russian officer makes an appearance in town, a female soldier starts screaming like a little girl when someone points a gun at her, some of the guerrilla squad falls, some retired soldiers arrive in town to ask help from the insurgents while we have the chance to witness the cheesiest lines in human history. But after some secret-weapon-stealing project and losing some more people (the most likable ones, naturally) finally, one of the kids give a very uplifting speech for a dozen of people, so we can rest assured that the day is going to be saved eventually.
There is this one very funny line from one of the soldiers: "This is not a plan, this is a sh*t sandwich without the bread." Well, the same applies for the movie.
Once upon a time, in a not too distant fictive future, North Korea in alliance with Russia invades and takes over the United States overnight. They arrive unnoticed and take the absolutely unprepared country by surprise. They not only occupy the most strategically relevant points but very casually the whole thing (a tiny 3.8 million square miles with an equally tiny population of about 320 million). Oh, did I mention that it happens overnight? The US Army is nowhere in evidence, apparently beaten. The rest of the world just sits tight. This is a lesson on a very well organized and very well funded war with excellent logistics, advanced level. With no lack of resources, first things first, they take over everything, including every middle-sized town. A part of the population is imprisoned, the rest still walks around, under heavy surveillance. But no reason for panic, Subway is still open.
This is pretty much the basic scene, in which our heroes (a soldier and a couple of teenagers) manage to get away from the invaders, set up a guerrilla group and starts doing some chaos in the town (by far the most believable aspect of the movie by the way). As a top priority, the invading army tries everything to hunt them down and fails many times. In the meantime we can see things like: a major Russian officer makes an appearance in town, a female soldier starts screaming like a little girl when someone points a gun at her, some of the guerrilla squad falls, some retired soldiers arrive in town to ask help from the insurgents while we have the chance to witness the cheesiest lines in human history. But after some secret-weapon-stealing project and losing some more people (the most likable ones, naturally) finally, one of the kids give a very uplifting speech for a dozen of people, so we can rest assured that the day is going to be saved eventually.
There is this one very funny line from one of the soldiers: "This is not a plan, this is a sh*t sandwich without the bread." Well, the same applies for the movie.
Darkroom
(2013 Video)
I can't really tell why I didn't like it
8 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please do not read it before watching the movie.
Darkroom is about a girl, who caused a car accident DUI that kills 3 of her friends traveling with her. Later, she gets into a rehabilitation center (probably after jail-time, it doesn't mentioned, only that she couldn't continue school afterwards). When she gets out, she takes on a job with the help of her counselor. Though, the job turns out to be a nightmare in which 3 crazy siblings with troubled background torture and kill 'sinner' girls.
The movie applies a very interesting multiple-timeline structure so we can figure out what's going on. The plot is decent. The leading actress was even a familiar face from Gossip Girl. Yet, the whole thing made me feel only indifference and I can't really tell why. Maybe, because the protagonist girls was so terribly unlikeable. Or because the things happening were either too random or too forced. Maybe because the story just failed to become a whole. Maybe because too much misfortune was tried to be pushed into a single story (a foster girls kills friends, ends up with a psycho counselor, who happens to have 2 psycho brothers, one of whom has other mental problems too, and the cherry on top is that their psycho mother managed to raise all 3 of them equally psycho.) OK, now that I wrote this last part, I think this is it. It's like Remember Me. Overwhelmingly too much. That, and the fact that I just couldn't care for the girl. A pity, I guess.
Darkroom is about a girl, who caused a car accident DUI that kills 3 of her friends traveling with her. Later, she gets into a rehabilitation center (probably after jail-time, it doesn't mentioned, only that she couldn't continue school afterwards). When she gets out, she takes on a job with the help of her counselor. Though, the job turns out to be a nightmare in which 3 crazy siblings with troubled background torture and kill 'sinner' girls.
The movie applies a very interesting multiple-timeline structure so we can figure out what's going on. The plot is decent. The leading actress was even a familiar face from Gossip Girl. Yet, the whole thing made me feel only indifference and I can't really tell why. Maybe, because the protagonist girls was so terribly unlikeable. Or because the things happening were either too random or too forced. Maybe because the story just failed to become a whole. Maybe because too much misfortune was tried to be pushed into a single story (a foster girls kills friends, ends up with a psycho counselor, who happens to have 2 psycho brothers, one of whom has other mental problems too, and the cherry on top is that their psycho mother managed to raise all 3 of them equally psycho.) OK, now that I wrote this last part, I think this is it. It's like Remember Me. Overwhelmingly too much. That, and the fact that I just couldn't care for the girl. A pity, I guess.
Resurrection
(2013–2015)
Season 1 review
4 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please do not watch it before watching Season 1. This review and the current rating is based on Season 1.
One of the perks of staying in the US for a while is the chance of watching TV shows freshly from the oven. The previews of Resurrection made me really interested in this show because this idea is very-very fascinating. I haven't seen the original French series yet, so this is not a comparison, it's the impression the first season made me have on its own merit.
So far, it is quite disappointing. The first episode was pretty good and the season finale was quite good again, containing all the action that was so disturbingly missing from the rest of the season. Because all the in-between episodes either bored me senseless or just left me contemplating how is it possible to push so many unrealistic reactions of people into 6 short episodes.
My problems are:
To sum it up: the first and last episodes of the season are pretty good, the rest is pretty much a waste of time. The season finale should have been episode 2. But they did manage to regain my interest, let's see where it goes in Season 2.
One of the perks of staying in the US for a while is the chance of watching TV shows freshly from the oven. The previews of Resurrection made me really interested in this show because this idea is very-very fascinating. I haven't seen the original French series yet, so this is not a comparison, it's the impression the first season made me have on its own merit.
So far, it is quite disappointing. The first episode was pretty good and the season finale was quite good again, containing all the action that was so disturbingly missing from the rest of the season. Because all the in-between episodes either bored me senseless or just left me contemplating how is it possible to push so many unrealistic reactions of people into 6 short episodes.
My problems are:
- Why is it that Jacob showed up in the other side of the world while everybody else appeared in or near Arcadia? (Well, maybe we'll get an answer to that one. Of course I don't expect them to reveal everything so early.)
- Do they seriously let a single agent (from Immigration and Custom Enforcement from all places, with all due respect) handle a problem of such a caliber for such a long time?
- Why did nobody truly freak out until the season finale?
- Are you seriously trying to convince me that no one broke the news to the media, to the FBI or to the army (and probably in this order)?
- Why was everything happening so terribly slowly?
To sum it up: the first and last episodes of the season are pretty good, the rest is pretty much a waste of time. The season finale should have been episode 2. But they did manage to regain my interest, let's see where it goes in Season 2.
Leprechaun
(1992)
This just cannot be serious. Oh wait, it isn't.
4 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Okay, here is the thing. When I started to watch Leprechaun I 1) was thinking it was meant to be an actual horror, 2) was curious of a pre-Friends Jennifer Aniston. Due to point 1 I just kept saying "You've got to be kidding me" while I was watching the movie. Then, when I saw here that it's a comedy, my rating went up significantly because:
This movie is bad for a fantasy and absolutely worthless as a horror. But. The thing is just hilarious. Any remotely horroristic stuff is completely destroyed in, well, about 5 seconds after the opening theme, when we first set our eyes on the Leprechaun. Because he just looks funny. And then he does funny things. And says funny things. Like, absolutely, ridiculously, I-just-suffered-permanent-mental-damage kind of funny. And he has a thing for picking means of transportation.
So, if you want a horror, forget it. If you like horror-comedy, go for it. We may also try the 6+ sequels too.
This movie is bad for a fantasy and absolutely worthless as a horror. But. The thing is just hilarious. Any remotely horroristic stuff is completely destroyed in, well, about 5 seconds after the opening theme, when we first set our eyes on the Leprechaun. Because he just looks funny. And then he does funny things. And says funny things. Like, absolutely, ridiculously, I-just-suffered-permanent-mental-damage kind of funny. And he has a thing for picking means of transportation.
So, if you want a horror, forget it. If you like horror-comedy, go for it. We may also try the 6+ sequels too.
Compliance
(2012)
Simply unbelievable
5 April 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please don't read it before watching the movie.
My very first impression of this movie was that it just made me mad beyond belief. The story in a nutshell: someone gives a phone call to the manager of a fast food restaurant claiming to be a police officer and saying that one of the female employees stole money from a customer. Without going into the fairly unbelievable and irritating details, he manages to make the manager strip-search the girl, keep her locked up for hours that finally ends up in a sexual assault when finally someone with a functional brain shows up and figures out it's a prank. I could hardly wait for the movie to end because I was mad out of my mind.
Well, the movie starts saying it's inspired by true events, but we all know that sometimes movies like that just shift considerably from what really happened, and I thought this was just super over-exaggerated too. Well, it wasn't. After watching the movie, I did a little research, and sadly, it was a very faithful reconstruction of an actual event. After reading all of these articles, I finally decided this movie has a very important value: raising awareness. Awareness of people with twisted minds out there, to the efficiency of the practices of big companies to train their employees, to the efficiency of jurisdiction and most importantly, to sheer human stupidity. It is just absolutely shocking that this and many other similar incidents had happened over a period of 10 years because one sick idiot made countless people believe that a police officer can and will order you over the phone to strip someone who he doesn't even has a name for, just a vague description. It is very interesting to start thinking about who or what is responsible for that absolute lack of common sense.
Oh, and just another piece of information that makes it even more crazy: the real-life prank caller was found, arrested, went to the court, and got away with it...
My very first impression of this movie was that it just made me mad beyond belief. The story in a nutshell: someone gives a phone call to the manager of a fast food restaurant claiming to be a police officer and saying that one of the female employees stole money from a customer. Without going into the fairly unbelievable and irritating details, he manages to make the manager strip-search the girl, keep her locked up for hours that finally ends up in a sexual assault when finally someone with a functional brain shows up and figures out it's a prank. I could hardly wait for the movie to end because I was mad out of my mind.
Well, the movie starts saying it's inspired by true events, but we all know that sometimes movies like that just shift considerably from what really happened, and I thought this was just super over-exaggerated too. Well, it wasn't. After watching the movie, I did a little research, and sadly, it was a very faithful reconstruction of an actual event. After reading all of these articles, I finally decided this movie has a very important value: raising awareness. Awareness of people with twisted minds out there, to the efficiency of the practices of big companies to train their employees, to the efficiency of jurisdiction and most importantly, to sheer human stupidity. It is just absolutely shocking that this and many other similar incidents had happened over a period of 10 years because one sick idiot made countless people believe that a police officer can and will order you over the phone to strip someone who he doesn't even has a name for, just a vague description. It is very interesting to start thinking about who or what is responsible for that absolute lack of common sense.
Oh, and just another piece of information that makes it even more crazy: the real-life prank caller was found, arrested, went to the court, and got away with it...
Vile
(2011)
Epic face-palm
15 February 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please don't read it before watching the movie.
Another Saw-wannabe. The joke is, it could have been good. But it wasn't and the background story is to blame for that because it's just so utterly stupid. I almost decided to stop watching after 20 minutes, but now I don't regret that I didn't because the last like 20 minutes drew my rating up from a massive 0 to an almost decent 4 stars. In this 20-30 minutes there were true emotions, smartly controlled gore and an ending that was an age-old cliché but not the one I expected. However, despite of some flashes of a good horror in the end, the first 3/4 of the movie is just simply bad. Why? Let's see:
Bottom line: you can live without this.
Another Saw-wannabe. The joke is, it could have been good. But it wasn't and the background story is to blame for that because it's just so utterly stupid. I almost decided to stop watching after 20 minutes, but now I don't regret that I didn't because the last like 20 minutes drew my rating up from a massive 0 to an almost decent 4 stars. In this 20-30 minutes there were true emotions, smartly controlled gore and an ending that was an age-old cliché but not the one I expected. However, despite of some flashes of a good horror in the end, the first 3/4 of the movie is just simply bad. Why? Let's see:
- A crazy doctor kidnaps people to extract chemicals from their brains that are only produced when the body experiences pain. These chemicals are collected in small vials attached to people's back through some mechanical device inserted to their brains. The ultimate goal is to produce some bad-ass drug of these chemicals. Why is it indescribably stupid? Well, I'm not a doctor, but inserting that stuff to their heads probably required some major kind of surgery, yet they are OK. When they start torturing each other, these substances start to be produced immediately in visible amounts and get collected in those vials and their amount is precisely monitored. Seriuosly? How? This is so impossible. A piece of advice: consult experts before start shooting a movie. It's okay if the thing is not entirely correct, but it's so evidently stupid for non-expert viewers too that it ruins the whole thing before it starts.
- And, if it wouldn't have been enough, people just jump so quickly to accept that there is no other way out. Well, a guy I've never seen before says we are perfectly sealed. Will I trust a stranger with all my heart and mind and not go check it myself? Unlikely. They have all sorts of stuff around, so spending some time trying to figure something out wouldn't have hurt. Some hesitation before starting to gladly torture each other would've been nice too. And don't try to convince me that beating a guy half dead and breaking many of their bones will provide just twice as much stuff than an iron burn and 2 fingernails ( I mean, let's skip the fact that this whole part is just stupid). And that a painkiller, no matter how strong it is, starts to work in 10 seconds. And so on.
Bottom line: you can live without this.
V/H/S
(2012)
Hm...
9 February 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains some spoiler, please don't read it before watching the movie.
This movie was a quite controversial experience. It is built up by putting together a few completely different short horror stories in a found footage setting. It was a sort of a horror anthology and not a bad one. The horror quality of these stories varies, but most of them are quite decent and there are some really nasty and disturbing stuff there too.
So, why didn't I give it a higher vote? Well, because while watching the stories one by one, I couldn't get rid of a massive "what the hell is this whole thing about?" feeling. The background story is really confusing, who are these guys, who hired them, who is the dead guy in that house, where did he get all these tapes from, I mean there must be a connection between these stories? But as it happens, there isn't. Or so I think. Quite the same goes for the mini individual stories.It would have worked far better as a sort of a mini-series or with a coherent background story.
So, it was worth a watch, but it was quite disappointing. Whatever, I'll check out what V/H/S 2 has to offer.
This movie was a quite controversial experience. It is built up by putting together a few completely different short horror stories in a found footage setting. It was a sort of a horror anthology and not a bad one. The horror quality of these stories varies, but most of them are quite decent and there are some really nasty and disturbing stuff there too.
So, why didn't I give it a higher vote? Well, because while watching the stories one by one, I couldn't get rid of a massive "what the hell is this whole thing about?" feeling. The background story is really confusing, who are these guys, who hired them, who is the dead guy in that house, where did he get all these tapes from, I mean there must be a connection between these stories? But as it happens, there isn't. Or so I think. Quite the same goes for the mini individual stories.It would have worked far better as a sort of a mini-series or with a coherent background story.
So, it was worth a watch, but it was quite disappointing. Whatever, I'll check out what V/H/S 2 has to offer.
Nine Dead
(2009)
Not as good as it could have been
9 February 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please don't read it before watching the movie.
I had really high hopes for this movie based on its description. I think it was meant to raise the Saw experience to a whole new level and it did have the potential but failed to deliver. The way 9 strangers try to put together why they got locked in a room handcuffed to a bar was a really good start. However, the thing, mostly the first half was just ridiculous. It started with the time when the bad guy came in and removed their hoods one-by-one and everyone had a line of comment on this. And from now on many of the conversations were just forced and unreal, and most of the people were just completely featureless.
The background story was surprisingly coherent, though there are a few questionable points, e.g. how the father find out who the robber kid bought the gun from and how he got the money for that. And a really good idea was that there wasn't too much gore involved. The reason this movie was more a failure that a success for me lies in the characters and the conversations. And I didn't like the ending at all.
Conclusion: great ideas, mediocre execution, it won't hurt to check it out.
I had really high hopes for this movie based on its description. I think it was meant to raise the Saw experience to a whole new level and it did have the potential but failed to deliver. The way 9 strangers try to put together why they got locked in a room handcuffed to a bar was a really good start. However, the thing, mostly the first half was just ridiculous. It started with the time when the bad guy came in and removed their hoods one-by-one and everyone had a line of comment on this. And from now on many of the conversations were just forced and unreal, and most of the people were just completely featureless.
The background story was surprisingly coherent, though there are a few questionable points, e.g. how the father find out who the robber kid bought the gun from and how he got the money for that. And a really good idea was that there wasn't too much gore involved. The reason this movie was more a failure that a success for me lies in the characters and the conversations. And I didn't like the ending at all.
Conclusion: great ideas, mediocre execution, it won't hurt to check it out.
Tomorrow, When the War Began
(2010)
Somewhat awkward
10 November 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please do not read it before watching the movie.
First of all, I must admit I didn't know this is an adaptation of a series of books. I just decided to read them to check out if they are better than the movie (and let's admit, in 99% of the cases, they are) because the idea seems really fascinating and I really love this kind of YA fiction.
As for the movie, I was totally enthusiastic until about the halfway mark. The characters are really likable, the beginning of the story goes in a really promising direction. But as it goes on, it is just so unbelievable that I couldn't really enjoy it anymore. I was just keep asking myself things like these:
So, these things are just too huge plot holes to be able to put up with. It's really a pity because, like I said, the story is interesting and starts so nicely. I don't think that it would have been so hard to put some consistency into the whole warfare part. However, it seems a sequel is on its way, I'll watch it for sure hoping for some improvement.
First of all, I must admit I didn't know this is an adaptation of a series of books. I just decided to read them to check out if they are better than the movie (and let's admit, in 99% of the cases, they are) because the idea seems really fascinating and I really love this kind of YA fiction.
As for the movie, I was totally enthusiastic until about the halfway mark. The characters are really likable, the beginning of the story goes in a really promising direction. But as it goes on, it is just so unbelievable that I couldn't really enjoy it anymore. I was just keep asking myself things like these:
- Seriously, a country decides to colonize Australia, and the rest of the world just doesn't give a damn? - Seriously, Australia doesn't have an army? - Seriously, no one detected a bunch of carrier ships approaching the coasts of Australia? - The most shocking point: the girls in the truck fail to notice the enemy crawling behind their truck because they are too busy chitchatting about boys... - It is pretty much suggested that the fate of the country depends on a single bridge. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that nowadays it takes too much work to put up a temporary bridge.
So, these things are just too huge plot holes to be able to put up with. It's really a pity because, like I said, the story is interesting and starts so nicely. I don't think that it would have been so hard to put some consistency into the whole warfare part. However, it seems a sequel is on its way, I'll watch it for sure hoping for some improvement.
Dark Skies
(2013)
A bit half-baked
21 September 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This movie contains spoiler, please do not read it before watching the movie.
Dark Skies deals with a family encountering alien harassment in their home. Most clichés of alien movies are displayed in this film, however, I think they are used quite smartly. There is suspense from the beginning, you can feel the desperation of the family gradually growing. All in all, it was quite entertaining and I would have given a higher rate here except I did not like the way it ended. The story was developing really nicely. Then, in the last 20 minutes they learn that the aliens will take one of the kids, they prepare for an attack the very same day and the aliens are kind enough not to waste their time by coming for them later. Finally they take a boy, and almost immediately the movie ends. It pretty much left me with a "and now what?" feeling. I really wanted to know what happens next! So my feeling was that by the end they just did not have the time, or I don't know what, but the end was just quickly patched up. Another 30 minutes could have done miracles.
In conclusion, Dark Skies is a quite decent movie with a promising beginning and a disappointing ending. Somewhat recommended.
Dark Skies deals with a family encountering alien harassment in their home. Most clichés of alien movies are displayed in this film, however, I think they are used quite smartly. There is suspense from the beginning, you can feel the desperation of the family gradually growing. All in all, it was quite entertaining and I would have given a higher rate here except I did not like the way it ended. The story was developing really nicely. Then, in the last 20 minutes they learn that the aliens will take one of the kids, they prepare for an attack the very same day and the aliens are kind enough not to waste their time by coming for them later. Finally they take a boy, and almost immediately the movie ends. It pretty much left me with a "and now what?" feeling. I really wanted to know what happens next! So my feeling was that by the end they just did not have the time, or I don't know what, but the end was just quickly patched up. Another 30 minutes could have done miracles.
In conclusion, Dark Skies is a quite decent movie with a promising beginning and a disappointing ending. Somewhat recommended.
Dark Feed
(2013)
A waste of time- the sad thing it shouldn't have been so
15 September 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please do not read it before watching the movie.
Here we go again with the mental hospital stuff. And another fail. The joke is that the idea was not bad. But somehow the whole thing just did not make any sense. Why did they got there to shoot this movie? What happened there before? Now is there an evil power working on its own or people just go crazy and kill each other? If it was the latter, why didn't it happen to everyone? Who was that guy talking to and why did he hate the writer so much? Why was so much time wasted on the fake scary moment of that piercing removal in the beginning and why the things that was meant to be scary happened in a second or two? And there are many other questions that bothered me, probably because I had plenty of time for thinking as there wasn't anything scary and as far as I was concerned the fate of these people could have been anything because they were so plain and boring. The story just seemed to be built in an absolutely random manner, without giving it a serious thought. There was a tiny ray of hope at the end, when it became almost interesting, but the feeling just came and went. Oh, and the end was extra stupid.
The very same people wrote The Ward. Many people hated it, it worked for me though. Not this one. It's really a pity because some extra work could have made it so much better.
Here we go again with the mental hospital stuff. And another fail. The joke is that the idea was not bad. But somehow the whole thing just did not make any sense. Why did they got there to shoot this movie? What happened there before? Now is there an evil power working on its own or people just go crazy and kill each other? If it was the latter, why didn't it happen to everyone? Who was that guy talking to and why did he hate the writer so much? Why was so much time wasted on the fake scary moment of that piercing removal in the beginning and why the things that was meant to be scary happened in a second or two? And there are many other questions that bothered me, probably because I had plenty of time for thinking as there wasn't anything scary and as far as I was concerned the fate of these people could have been anything because they were so plain and boring. The story just seemed to be built in an absolutely random manner, without giving it a serious thought. There was a tiny ray of hope at the end, when it became almost interesting, but the feeling just came and went. Oh, and the end was extra stupid.
The very same people wrote The Ward. Many people hated it, it worked for me though. Not this one. It's really a pity because some extra work could have made it so much better.
Pacific Rim
(2013)
The day is saved again- in a really pretty way
6 August 2013
Warning: Spoilers
To sum this movie up in a few sentences, I can state the following things:
Because boy, despite all of its flaws, the thing is as gorgeous as it can get! Beautiful, jaw-dropping, mind-blowing cool, extremely enjoyable.
I probably wouldn't have liked it watching it on DVD or without 3D because when only the story remains, it's quite week. But with 3D it made me sit for two hours like a little kid, eyes sparkling.
The conclusion is: lean back, put your 3D glasses on and have fun!
- The basic idea is really great.
- The story built on this great idea is decent but mediocre at best.
- The dialogues are pretty much ridiculous.
- The plot is bleeding from several wounds. I won't give a detailed list of them for a reason that can be described in six letters: IMAX 3D
Because boy, despite all of its flaws, the thing is as gorgeous as it can get! Beautiful, jaw-dropping, mind-blowing cool, extremely enjoyable.
I probably wouldn't have liked it watching it on DVD or without 3D because when only the story remains, it's quite week. But with 3D it made me sit for two hours like a little kid, eyes sparkling.
The conclusion is: lean back, put your 3D glasses on and have fun!
Dead End
(I) (2003)
If I hadn't seen it for myself, I wouldn't believe it
10 April 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Dead End was just one of the most controversial movie experience and the most pleasant disappointment ever. Until the half of the film I thought that it was the poorest excuse of horror ever with a terribly stupid plot and horrible dialogues. I had to stop halfway and check the genre at the IMDb page of this movie to make sure it's not a comedy. But it really isn't. The thing made a fool out of me and turned out to be a very smartly built story. It is really impressive how tension and pure disturbance emerge from that preliminary seeming mess. Undeniably surreal, sometimes downright ridiculous, sometimes even dramatic, full of plot holes that don't even seem to be plot holes at the end, still brilliant and truly entertaining.
I wouldn't have thought 2 hours ago that I would write this, but: recommended.
I wouldn't have thought 2 hours ago that I would write this, but: recommended.
The Collection
(II) (2012)
Not that good
1 April 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please do not read it before watching the movie.
The Collection could be defined as a not-too original mixture of the Saw movies and the collector serial killer movies with a slight zombie touch. This could be quite interesting but the potential wasn't fully exploited and quite a few questions arose and remained unanswered which decreased the overall value of the movie. These are:
There were some positive things too: the plot is not exactly bad just not coherent enough due to the things mentioned above. And the characters are not stupid.
In conclusion, the concept wasn't a bad idea, the execution is mediocre. But see it for yourself.
The Collection could be defined as a not-too original mixture of the Saw movies and the collector serial killer movies with a slight zombie touch. This could be quite interesting but the potential wasn't fully exploited and quite a few questions arose and remained unanswered which decreased the overall value of the movie. These are:
- The Collection: of what exactly?
- The killer: who is he and more importantly, what is his motivation?
- He tortures and kills people in an abandoned hotel equipped with labs, and a whole bunch of other things not mentioning the traps (despite being a lunatic the guy is one hell of an engineer). It's quite unbelievable that a single guy is able to manage all of this. Really, how? How he did build huge traps alone, how he could get so much chemicals, etc.
- At the end the killer doesn't die (fine, we are already used to this, lunatic guys are pretty much knife, bullet, fire and whatever else proof). One of the protagonists finally finds him and takes his revenge. How??? Whatever, this ending is kinda screaming for a sequel.
- The protagonist guy's miraculous recovery: after being tortured and after jumping out a window, the next day he is still ready to go back to the scene.
- A short comment to the part when the girl is extinguishing the fire by destroying the tanks with those preserved bodies: it's hardly believable the preparations like that are stored in water, my guess would be some highly flammable chemical.
There were some positive things too: the plot is not exactly bad just not coherent enough due to the things mentioned above. And the characters are not stupid.
In conclusion, the concept wasn't a bad idea, the execution is mediocre. But see it for yourself.
Three... Extremes
(2004)
This one hits
22 March 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Please don't read this review before watching the movie. And don't read any other reviews either before watching it. Let it affect you without prejudice.
Phew, this one was a really unique experience. It was a bit like reading short stories in a horror anthology as the stories unfold quite slowly and the whole thing is getting under your skin without noticing it and horror movies hardly ever give this impression. The three stories presented are refreshingly original, very well-written and brilliantly executed with a fine quintessence of Asian horror skills, their atmosphere is extremely disturbing just like the topics they picked. A really positive aspect is that besides being without a doubt horror stories, they all had a thought-provoking message.
The bottom line is: very impressive, recommended.
Phew, this one was a really unique experience. It was a bit like reading short stories in a horror anthology as the stories unfold quite slowly and the whole thing is getting under your skin without noticing it and horror movies hardly ever give this impression. The three stories presented are refreshingly original, very well-written and brilliantly executed with a fine quintessence of Asian horror skills, their atmosphere is extremely disturbing just like the topics they picked. A really positive aspect is that besides being without a doubt horror stories, they all had a thought-provoking message.
The bottom line is: very impressive, recommended.
Stake Land
(2010)
If you are into post-apocalyptic dystopia, it is a must-see for you
14 February 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I think being a horror fan is like looking for pieces of diamonds among thousands of shiny (but eventually enjoyable) glass pieces. Well, to me, Stake Land is one of these diamonds. It strongly reminded me of "The Cell" of Stephen King and of "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson (here I mean the book) which I both like a lot. Well, the story counts now quite old: a pandemic (this time vampires) and the world after stopping to be the way we know it. Surely a quite popular topic with mixed results.
Stake Land is one of the best ones of this sub-genre I've ever seen. It has a decent storyline, it is thought-provoking, even heartbreaking sometimes with a slight epic-like overtone. This is something fresh and new without showing any fresh and new. And that is an achievement that must be appreciated. Highly recommended.
Stake Land is one of the best ones of this sub-genre I've ever seen. It has a decent storyline, it is thought-provoking, even heartbreaking sometimes with a slight epic-like overtone. This is something fresh and new without showing any fresh and new. And that is an achievement that must be appreciated. Highly recommended.
100 Feet
(2008)
Permanent damage- Done
14 February 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please do not read it before watching a movie. Or I should rather advise DO NOT watch this movie.
I like those horrors the most where the horror part is integrated in a seemingly normal, realistic surrounding. In other words, I want these movies to make me believe that this could happen to anyone of us for 90 minutes. This requires in one hand good horror material and ghost stories are always good for this purpose. However, a consistent, realistic background story is also necessary. This movie fails in both.
Let's start with the latter. This story is so unbelievable to begin with. Wife kills her abusive cop husband while defending herself she still gets into prison for years. Then she is abused again in the prison so she is taken home for a one-year house arrest. Well, I'm not even close to being a lawyer, but is that seriously possible? Whatever, she gets home and her late husband's ghost appears pretty soon. After thorough research (i.e. reading a single book)she tries to get rid of him. And then there's this horny kid she hooks up with, and the ex-partner of her husband who has nothing better to do than stalking her in 24/7. And some hidden money, and that priest, and that extremely cheesy ending with that ring.
The ghost part isn't better either. It seems to be capable of whatever it wants, but it seems it doesn't really want anything in particular. The effects are quite lame for a movie from 2008. I really liked when the woman wanted to beat it up with a baseball bat. Oh, and when the blood started to stick on it...
So making a long story short, this movie is an unpalatable, inconsistent, unreal thing, however by the end it made me have these incredulous fascination over the simple fact that this movie was actually done and is available worldwide. Seeing at the end that half of the crew is Hungarian made me feel even worse.
I like those horrors the most where the horror part is integrated in a seemingly normal, realistic surrounding. In other words, I want these movies to make me believe that this could happen to anyone of us for 90 minutes. This requires in one hand good horror material and ghost stories are always good for this purpose. However, a consistent, realistic background story is also necessary. This movie fails in both.
Let's start with the latter. This story is so unbelievable to begin with. Wife kills her abusive cop husband while defending herself she still gets into prison for years. Then she is abused again in the prison so she is taken home for a one-year house arrest. Well, I'm not even close to being a lawyer, but is that seriously possible? Whatever, she gets home and her late husband's ghost appears pretty soon. After thorough research (i.e. reading a single book)she tries to get rid of him. And then there's this horny kid she hooks up with, and the ex-partner of her husband who has nothing better to do than stalking her in 24/7. And some hidden money, and that priest, and that extremely cheesy ending with that ring.
The ghost part isn't better either. It seems to be capable of whatever it wants, but it seems it doesn't really want anything in particular. The effects are quite lame for a movie from 2008. I really liked when the woman wanted to beat it up with a baseball bat. Oh, and when the blood started to stick on it...
So making a long story short, this movie is an unpalatable, inconsistent, unreal thing, however by the end it made me have these incredulous fascination over the simple fact that this movie was actually done and is available worldwide. Seeing at the end that half of the crew is Hungarian made me feel even worse.
Sinister
(I) (2012)
Pretty good
19 January 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please don't read it before watching the movie.
Sinister is about a true-crime writer who moves into houses that were the scenes of the crimes he is writing about and he is also dragging his family with him. This time they move into a house where four members of a family of five were hung in the backyard while the youngest kid went missing. After writing a bestseller, the guy decides to repeat the success, just making it even better. The story really starts when he finds a box with "home movies" that are super 8 footages of several murders covering a 40-year period, including the one he is working on. As time is going on many paranormal things are happening which slowly lead back to an ancient legend.
Well, as the story is unfolding it's not hard to find out what will happen, but this time it wasn't disturbing. Is the movie using clichés? You bet it is. But the story is so nicely built and feels like a whole that it's just fine. Besides I found it quite scary too in spite of using many well-known cheap scare tricks. So if you are a horror fan, you won't get anything new in terms of horror raw material, but I always like when clichés are used to make something new and the strong story with this interesting redefinition of found footage is quite enjoyable, so give it a try.
Sinister is about a true-crime writer who moves into houses that were the scenes of the crimes he is writing about and he is also dragging his family with him. This time they move into a house where four members of a family of five were hung in the backyard while the youngest kid went missing. After writing a bestseller, the guy decides to repeat the success, just making it even better. The story really starts when he finds a box with "home movies" that are super 8 footages of several murders covering a 40-year period, including the one he is working on. As time is going on many paranormal things are happening which slowly lead back to an ancient legend.
Well, as the story is unfolding it's not hard to find out what will happen, but this time it wasn't disturbing. Is the movie using clichés? You bet it is. But the story is so nicely built and feels like a whole that it's just fine. Besides I found it quite scary too in spite of using many well-known cheap scare tricks. So if you are a horror fan, you won't get anything new in terms of horror raw material, but I always like when clichés are used to make something new and the strong story with this interesting redefinition of found footage is quite enjoyable, so give it a try.
Night Watch
(2004)
A mediocre misinterpretation of a great book
19 January 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I've been a fan of speculative fiction for quite a long time, no matter that books or movies, I just love them. I read the Night Watch novel not long ago and despite of liking fantasy less than the other genres under the umbrella of speculative fiction, I found this book extremely enjoyable, the story is great, smart and thought-provoking, the characters are interesting, the sophisticated fight between the Night and Day Watches is truly fascinating.
So I decided to check out the movie as I guessed that such a great story couldn't be messed up. Maybe I was never so wrong. The story is only loosely connected the original, the once amazing and complex story was simplified to a silly, discursive plot; the once cool and special members of the watches were turned into a bunch of laughable idiots. And this newly added cheesy father-son relationship is physically painful. The only real good thing in the movie is the soundtrack. I'm truly interested what Mr. Lukyanenko thinks of this adaptation, but maybe he can be more forgiving as the movie brought him international popularity. An advice for you: pick the book!
So I decided to check out the movie as I guessed that such a great story couldn't be messed up. Maybe I was never so wrong. The story is only loosely connected the original, the once amazing and complex story was simplified to a silly, discursive plot; the once cool and special members of the watches were turned into a bunch of laughable idiots. And this newly added cheesy father-son relationship is physically painful. The only real good thing in the movie is the soundtrack. I'm truly interested what Mr. Lukyanenko thinks of this adaptation, but maybe he can be more forgiving as the movie brought him international popularity. An advice for you: pick the book!
Darkness
(2002)
Disappointing
18 January 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please do not read it before watching the movie.
To put my opinion in a nutshell: Darkness was a huge disappointment for me mainly because its creator is much more capable than this proved by the fact that later he wrote and directed Rec and Rec 2.
The movie is really weak both in terms of characters and storyline. Firstly we see a recap of an old crime (there are many old newspaper extracts about it, all in English, seems a bit unlikely for me) when seven kids were kidnapped and six got killed as well in an old house. 40 years later a family is moving to Spain (not really clear why) into an old house (you would never guess which one) where strange things start to happen. The family members are all featureless, indifferent, nothing like actual people. They hardly ever do that anyone in real life would do. As for the story, it is very predictable, almost boring. Well, dad goes crazy, finds some scary symbol under the floor. His daughter (Anna Paquin, who was unexpectedly a disappointment too) and his Spanish friend find the symbol on the internet at once (naturally) and casually there is a very old book with the same symbol on its cover available in the local library (btw I don't think that you can touch any book that the librarian carries around in rubber gloves). The book is about a ritual to awake the darkness. This is the point where you can easily find out from the description of this ritual what happened in the past and who is the next target and what will happen to this person, and it will just miraculously really happen that way.
In conclusion, the story is quite boring, easy to find out and the whole thing just doesn't make much sense. As for the characters... well, I just couldn't care whatever happens to them. So I think you won't lose anything by skipping this movie.
To put my opinion in a nutshell: Darkness was a huge disappointment for me mainly because its creator is much more capable than this proved by the fact that later he wrote and directed Rec and Rec 2.
The movie is really weak both in terms of characters and storyline. Firstly we see a recap of an old crime (there are many old newspaper extracts about it, all in English, seems a bit unlikely for me) when seven kids were kidnapped and six got killed as well in an old house. 40 years later a family is moving to Spain (not really clear why) into an old house (you would never guess which one) where strange things start to happen. The family members are all featureless, indifferent, nothing like actual people. They hardly ever do that anyone in real life would do. As for the story, it is very predictable, almost boring. Well, dad goes crazy, finds some scary symbol under the floor. His daughter (Anna Paquin, who was unexpectedly a disappointment too) and his Spanish friend find the symbol on the internet at once (naturally) and casually there is a very old book with the same symbol on its cover available in the local library (btw I don't think that you can touch any book that the librarian carries around in rubber gloves). The book is about a ritual to awake the darkness. This is the point where you can easily find out from the description of this ritual what happened in the past and who is the next target and what will happen to this person, and it will just miraculously really happen that way.
In conclusion, the story is quite boring, easy to find out and the whole thing just doesn't make much sense. As for the characters... well, I just couldn't care whatever happens to them. So I think you won't lose anything by skipping this movie.
Wind Chill
(2007)
Good? Not really. Bad? Not really.
16 January 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please do not read it before watching the movie.
Wind Chill was one of the most controversial movie experiences for me. It hardly ever happens that I can't decide whether I liked a movie or not. So I'm gonna try to give a summary of the positive and negative aspects of this film. As my 5/10 vote indicates, the ratio will be quite balanced.
Starting with the things I liked: the atmosphere is truly disturbing, the ghost scenes are really scary, the abandoned, snow-covered, haunted night road is a perfect scene for a film like this. It was the first time that a Christmas song freaked me out.
But: I didn't really liked the storyline. From the very start there were so many parts when I just couldn't help thinking that it just so can't be true (and I don't mean the ghost part). Well, arrogant college girl is taken home by a guy going to the same place. OK. Turns out that the guy lied, he just wanted to take the girl home because he likes her. Still OK but a tiny bit complicated. And then there are so many things that don't make too much sense: the girl gets locked up in a restroom which doesn't seem to have a connection to the rest of the story, poor guy's walking around for hours with some really serious injury, but it's just pure luck that he carries around a phone cord in his car that can be luckily attached to a telephone outlet (tech school is indeed useful), oh and this was probably the most durable battery ever, etc. Beside these, the ghost story was overcomplicated, dead teenagers, mad cop, priests, murdered woman, all connected, half of the story would have been plenty. And I didn't like the ending either. The nice guy had to die to save the less likable girl.
In conclusion I got the horror atmosphere I started to watch the whole thing for, but the story lacked a clear and well-built concept this way damaging the overall impression considerably.
Wind Chill was one of the most controversial movie experiences for me. It hardly ever happens that I can't decide whether I liked a movie or not. So I'm gonna try to give a summary of the positive and negative aspects of this film. As my 5/10 vote indicates, the ratio will be quite balanced.
Starting with the things I liked: the atmosphere is truly disturbing, the ghost scenes are really scary, the abandoned, snow-covered, haunted night road is a perfect scene for a film like this. It was the first time that a Christmas song freaked me out.
But: I didn't really liked the storyline. From the very start there were so many parts when I just couldn't help thinking that it just so can't be true (and I don't mean the ghost part). Well, arrogant college girl is taken home by a guy going to the same place. OK. Turns out that the guy lied, he just wanted to take the girl home because he likes her. Still OK but a tiny bit complicated. And then there are so many things that don't make too much sense: the girl gets locked up in a restroom which doesn't seem to have a connection to the rest of the story, poor guy's walking around for hours with some really serious injury, but it's just pure luck that he carries around a phone cord in his car that can be luckily attached to a telephone outlet (tech school is indeed useful), oh and this was probably the most durable battery ever, etc. Beside these, the ghost story was overcomplicated, dead teenagers, mad cop, priests, murdered woman, all connected, half of the story would have been plenty. And I didn't like the ending either. The nice guy had to die to save the less likable girl.
In conclusion I got the horror atmosphere I started to watch the whole thing for, but the story lacked a clear and well-built concept this way damaging the overall impression considerably.
Beneath
(2006)
Very predictable but still entertaining
5 January 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoiler, please do not read it before watching the movie.
Beneath is about a girl, Christy whose sister died after being burnt very badly in a car crash (the driver was Christy herself). During her funeral Christy has a strange vision with a kind of a seizure so she is removed from the town to a mental hospital where she is treated for several years. During these years she keeps having nightmares and she makes drawings on the things she sees. She returns to her hometown when her caretaker dies and she is also reunited with the rest of the family: her late sister's husband and daughter and the husband's (really scary) mother. As she relives the loss of her sister she starts to have visions again and strange and scary things start to happen. As a result she assumes that her sister was buried alive.
The movie has a really disturbing atmosphere and continuous tension in spite of the fact that it becomes quite evident very early what really happened to her sister. Despite knowing the end very very soon, I still found this movie truly entertaining as the different happenings were composed very nicely and the tension was also built up and kept steady all over the movie. The title Beneath reflects to a considerable maze under the house where all the mystery happens (I'm still wondering if people really have things like that under their houses. Creepy). If we don't count its predictability, the storyline is really good and the ratio of fake and actual supernatural stuff is fine too. The end is even dramatic, mainly if you can imagine your life all ruined, hidden in a dark place, etc.
In conclusion, Beneath is totally fine for watching it once, it's really a pity that it's so easy the predict how it will end. Otherwise, recommended.
Beneath is about a girl, Christy whose sister died after being burnt very badly in a car crash (the driver was Christy herself). During her funeral Christy has a strange vision with a kind of a seizure so she is removed from the town to a mental hospital where she is treated for several years. During these years she keeps having nightmares and she makes drawings on the things she sees. She returns to her hometown when her caretaker dies and she is also reunited with the rest of the family: her late sister's husband and daughter and the husband's (really scary) mother. As she relives the loss of her sister she starts to have visions again and strange and scary things start to happen. As a result she assumes that her sister was buried alive.
The movie has a really disturbing atmosphere and continuous tension in spite of the fact that it becomes quite evident very early what really happened to her sister. Despite knowing the end very very soon, I still found this movie truly entertaining as the different happenings were composed very nicely and the tension was also built up and kept steady all over the movie. The title Beneath reflects to a considerable maze under the house where all the mystery happens (I'm still wondering if people really have things like that under their houses. Creepy). If we don't count its predictability, the storyline is really good and the ratio of fake and actual supernatural stuff is fine too. The end is even dramatic, mainly if you can imagine your life all ruined, hidden in a dark place, etc.
In conclusion, Beneath is totally fine for watching it once, it's really a pity that it's so easy the predict how it will end. Otherwise, recommended.
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