In this movie everything is excellent, except for the story which is the most important part and doesn't make any sense. It's not like I expect a Sci-Fi with mystical elements to make perfect sense, but this movie's plot doesn't make even a little sense (more on that later...)
You aren't really invested in the characters and their goals, it's unclear what the stakes are and it's also unclear how the stakes raise in the 3rd act. The film does have a very good eerie and suspenseful feel to it which is good, but it get's ruined by the lack of sense in the plot and the completely idiotic behavior of the characters.
There is an obvious 'girl power' thing going on in this film which is fine, but I'll tell you what, feminists should be mad as hell with this movie. It depicts women as incapable, incompetent and stupid because of how mind-numbingly dumb the characters behave.
The most blatant example of this is the guardhouse scene. Where the women camp for the night in a watch tower in an elevated position, which has only one stairwell to the ground. The women, in their infinite wisdom, decided it's a good idea to put a guard, not in the watch tower which is an elevated position that provides a vantage point and where there are only one entrance and exit, no. They thought it's a good idea to put the guard exposed on the ground level. Furthermore, when inevitably the guard spots the monster and alerts the rest, the guard doesn't retreat to the watchtower. Instead, all the women in the watchtower go down to where the guard is and leave themselves exposed.
There are many such examples where the characters behave in extremely unplausible and stupid ways just so something in the plot could happen. This breaks immersion and makes you care less about the characters.
Review by Curt WagnerBlockedParent2018-04-11T14:19:31Z
In this movie everything is excellent, except for the story which is the most important part and doesn't make any sense. It's not like I expect a Sci-Fi with mystical elements to make perfect sense, but this movie's plot doesn't make even a little sense (more on that later...)
You aren't really invested in the characters and their goals, it's unclear what the stakes are and it's also unclear how the stakes raise in the 3rd act. The film does have a very good eerie and suspenseful feel to it which is good, but it get's ruined by the lack of sense in the plot and the completely idiotic behavior of the characters.
There is an obvious 'girl power' thing going on in this film which is fine, but I'll tell you what, feminists should be mad as hell with this movie. It depicts women as incapable, incompetent and stupid because of how mind-numbingly dumb the characters behave.
The most blatant example of this is the guardhouse scene. Where the women camp for the night in a watch tower in an elevated position, which has only one stairwell to the ground. The women, in their infinite wisdom, decided it's a good idea to put a guard, not in the watch tower which is an elevated position that provides a vantage point and where there are only one entrance and exit, no. They thought it's a good idea to put the guard exposed on the ground level. Furthermore, when inevitably the guard spots the monster and alerts the rest, the guard doesn't retreat to the watchtower. Instead, all the women in the watchtower go down to where the guard is and leave themselves exposed.
There are many such examples where the characters behave in extremely unplausible and stupid ways just so something in the plot could happen. This breaks immersion and makes you care less about the characters.