What a treat! No One Will Save You is a dialogue devoid, tension soaked thriller with an understated backstory and a great presentation. Employing my favourite style of storytelling by showing rather than overtly telling, this deeper-meaning alien thriller is decidedly something special comparative to the other streaming movies that get dumped onto their respective services each week. Surprised this one didn't get a run out at the cinema, I think it would have benefitted from the theatre experience. That's to say you should give this one the setting it deserves. Turn off the lights, crank up your sound device of choice and let this one thump and thrill you for 90 minutes. If you're willing to give it your full attention, I think you'll be greatly rewarded.
Much like all of these post/elevated-horrors, many of the elements are metaphor-laden and hold deeper meaning past the usual surface layer. The aliens in this scenario embody the feeling of anxiety, dread and guilt that is currently holding Brynn hostage in her own home. Unlike everyone else in the rest of the world, who let this anxiety and dread wash and takeover them, Brynn has decided after years of solitude and self-hate that's she's going to stand up and fight back. My read on the ending is that Brynn, who we now know killed her best friend in an accidental retaliation during a childhood fight, has now processed that guilt and stopped it from "consuming" her. We see that everyone else has allowed the alien parasite into them and are now living life with the motions, while Brynn actively fights off the possession and kills many of the aliens trying to force it upon her. Now she has faced the guilt head on, she can live her life free and unburdened, as we see her going about her daily tasks and being accepted by the possessed town that once shunned her.
It's amazing to read other reviews where people are completely slamming this movie for "not making sense". I think this movie is a good litmus test for people who actually pay attention and those that have made doomscrolling on socials part of their movie watching experience. Without things being overtly spoken through dialogue, many are missing this movies well conveyed story, and it's pretty depressing. Hope the industry keeps giving movies like this the time of day, they're the kind of movies that really remind me why I love this medium and the places it can take you.
One of the worst movies I have ever seen, and definitely the worst movie of this year for me so far.
This is one of those movies where it's a bit bizarre how it is even sold in the wild. I can not in my wildest imagination believe that anyone, of any age, with any interests that this could appeal to. And I don't say this lightly.
I mean the movie just fails in every aspect. It's so poorly made (acting, camera work, pacing etc) that it almost felt like a parody of sorts. After the first 20-30 minutes I thought it was some sort of art-movie because of this, and that I just didn't quite "get it" yet. But as the movie went on (and on and on - I swear this thing feels like it's 4 hours long), I slowly realized that the movie was just that awful. And after that realization, the movie got downright painful to watch. I barely made it through the last 30 minutes.
It's also not one of those movies where it's a "so bad it's good" type of thing. Because of it's subject matter and because of it's complete disregard to any form of quality, it just got really annoying. If it tried to be funny and/or artsy, it simply missed the mark by an immense amount.
And frankly, considering the subject matter of the movie, it's pretty astonishing how it does not manage to convey even a slight sense of a coherent or relevant message anywhere. Honestly, I don't even remember the last time I saw such a pointless movie. It's also not a horror movie by any sense of the word. It didn't even have scares, not even in the simplest of form. Actually, I'm not even sure what genre this should count as, considering the almost non-existent content in it. Oh, and I have to do this; even the damn sound is awful. And I don't care about sound. Oh well.
I will end this by saying that it's not often I truly believe that I have "wasted my time" with a movie. Almost always there is something to be had for it, even if it is sometimes laughter. But this time I can actually say that I feel like I lost a little bit of my life. I strongly urge anyone to avoid this garbage of a "movie".
