9/10
Superb
Absolutely Superb.
This Awesome movie ticked all the boxes, and it was so bloody interesting and so well written I could have sat through another hour of it easily. What I mind bending, time warping, Alternate going-on's this hidden gem of a movie is.
I love everything this movie brought to the table,
it's my absolute favourite kinda stories so
this one was always going to be a win,win
for me anyway
and the fact it is a
Stephen King story,
well It's a win,win,win.
Great acting all around and that kid actor was brilliant,
A good range of emotions and very believable.
Obviously the man himself Wilson knocked it out the ball park, he adds so much to his horror roles and he is definitely a seasoned vet.
I loved Becky i was rooting for her from the beginning, the boyfriend surprised me and I actually really liked him but I could not stand that weird creepy ass brother,
he definitely brought my enjoyment of the movie down as he annoyed me so much and I just wanted him dead over and over and over again.
Everytime he was on screen he just pissed me off. That being said I guess his acting was on point to make me feel this way in the first place.
I still hate his creepy cowardly ass, I definitely knew (there was something off about him from the beginning,
theirs loving your sister
then loving your sister...eww).
X FINAL THOUGHT
This Awesome movie definitely takes after
one of my all time favourites
which is a movie called
"TRIANGLE"
Which is super frickin Awesome 10/10 by the way so when I heard about this one I was very excited
to see it and it certainly did not disappoint.
In fact I loved it that much
even though I have it on
Netflix I've just bought the extended cut for
50 pounds on
Blu Ray so yes I think it's safe to say I rather
enjoyed this one Lol.
This Movie is well worth you're Time...ha time...sorry it's one of them that keeps you thinking all the way through and messes with your mind while doing it,
But in a really really fun and entertaining way.
Two Thumbs up
"Loved It"
I look very much forward to watching
this time and time and time again,
Especially now it's apart of
"My Multiverse Archives".
“In the Tall Grass” is a Netflix film based on a short story/novella written by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill. A little disclosure that I have not read the original story, so I can’t attest as to how faithful this film is, so I’ll be looking at the movie on its own merits, as few as they may be.
We start with two siblings, Cal and a pregnant Becky who are travelling through Kansas (a plus here is that we have a story from Stephen King that does not take place in Maine) when they pull over to the side of the road when Becky gets morning sickness and they hear a boy calling for help from the tall grass field on the side of the road. They get separated from each other and realize that something weird is going on, that travelling in one direction doesn’t necessarily mean travelling in that direction and time is out of joint. Others that they meet in the field are Ross, played by Patrick Wilson, his son Tobin, his wife Natalie, and Lisa’s ex-boyfriend Travis.
Alright, so as more disclosure here, I filled in the names of these characters after looking them up. I honestly could not remember their names, that’s how much of an impression they left on me, with the possible exception of the boy because when we first see him he comes off really creepy. I mean, really, it’s not so much that you want any characters to die because they’re irritating. They’re just so cookie-cutter and stereotypical that they leave little to no lasting impression.
Another reason for this is that the audience can be a little too distracted by the grass itself. It does have a certain character to it, even if it’s nearly impossible to figure out. But I found myself distracted trying to figure out the grass, how it works, its motivations, at the expense of the human characters.
And here is where we run into another problem. Because most of the set looks the same, that being in the middle of a tall grass field, the filmmakers need to rely on a series of technical and visual gimmicks to keep the audience interested and focused. But they’re inconsistent and stand out when they use them (for example, one consistent shot that is a 360 degree rotation). They don’t feel natural. You see the gimmick instead of what the gimmick is trying to show you, although that’s arguable as they’re clearly proud of some of these visual effects. In addition, this being a horror movie, there are going to be jump scares, but jump scares are just about all there is for this horror movie.
The conclusion is pretty meh and isn’t really consistent with other parts of the movie from what we learn plotwise. All around, if you’re really a Stephen King or Joe Hill fan and have nothing else to watch, go ahead, but for most people I would say not to bother.
Review by FLYVIP 2BlockedParent2023-02-21T13:40:32Z
There's a good concept. People trapped in an always changing labyrinth of grass.
Visually it's great, the moving grass and close up look awesome.
Patrick Wilson is very good (specially when crazy)
And in general I like stuff about time loops and paradoxes.
So on average it's pretty entertaining with good ideas.
However there are some issues with the story and timeline, and I was pretty disappointed they were not really taken into account at the end. Having gone to read the novel's summary afterwards, I can tell that pretty much everything that annoyed me was not in the original story and they were added in the movie in a way that don't quite fit. Mainly, the fact that the field moves people in time as well as space is not in the original story.
First, some characters appear and disappear without reason, sometimes in their main timeline version, sometimes in their future selves version. Specially Tobin. I mean he's just standing there with them. They move around, no one paying attention whether the kid is following or not (wtf!). So you don't see him, assume he either did not come, or just followed and was not shown. And then future Tobin pops up instead out of nowhere.
The fact that Travis shows up 2 months later and ends up in the same loop, plus that he is the one that gets Tobin's family in the loop, going full circle, is a great idea. But then it make sit weird that most of the time people are not moved in time, only space, and spend lot of time looking for each other while being in the same time.
Future Tobin is weird. He touched the rock, but we don't know when, and he seems less affected than his father.
When Travis finally touches the rock, he is affected, however he still prioritizes saving his girlfriend over, you know, killing her like Ross did. And now how fucked up is this that he uses the kid to save his girlfriend, instead of the kid's family.
Not sure about the concept of "holes" to escape. It kinda implies that they are switching around in places by moving around. But the fields moves things even if they are not moving around, like when they jump twice on the same spot but are in different places.
Not sure how the paradox works. It's implied that they are getting killed over and over and that things happen several times in a loop. However when Becky does the phone call to her past self, it doesn't make much sense, she hasn't see any looping. The dead body of Becky's first version is shown, so it exists at some point in time, but we can suppose Travis' arrival changes that, creating an alternative. Then shouldn't there be a lot more versions of them, both alive and dead ? There should also be consequences on the final exit of Tobin's.
And... shouldn't there be more people ? Like all the people to ever interact with the field should always be crossing each other in time and space ? Unless the field -- well I keep saying the field but I guess it's actually the rock -- manages to keep separate loops for the people that know each other ?
They should not have left the field. The fact that they can get out and be in a building on the other side of the road makes no sense.
Minor detail, but I would have liked to know when Tobin's family fit in the timeline (the outside world's timeline). We know Travis came after Cal and Becky, but there's no indication of when the family arrived. Importantly if they actually arrived after Cal and Becky, they would be two Tobins in the outside world at the end of the movie, extending the field's paradox to the outside.