More a parable on faith and evil than a horror movie. Beautiful to look at but a confusing story at times.
Intriguing drama, more suited to the stage than a film.
YES! Finally a movie that doesn't follow the current Hollywood cliche of being a superhero, sequel or remake film. Something new! And oh boy .. did the new emotions come rolling back with this one. I'm always drawn to horror because it brings with it this experience we don't usually get in everyday life. Emotions aside, the cinematography and sound editing were sublime. Camera movements that make me wish i could run to the projector room and re-watch. Audio that has me looking around the room, wondering if maybe someone is behind me.
Sound people that don't care about consistent sounds or room feel didn't help, but the biggest problem is the lack of a beginning to end story. It feels like one story to the middle and then another when the 'secret' monster finally shows up. Nobody's surprised about what the cause of the ailment is. Nobody.
Im Nicaraguan, and the facts are not wrong. Its good to people to know a little bit of history of our countries.
Is the best film that I've saw in years. Totally amazing, a very beautiful love story about friendship and respect.
I enjoyed the movie. If you thought it was going to be a period piece, you're wrong. If you thought it was going to be Oscar-bait, you're wrong. If you thought it was going to be a lean/mean action flick with fun set pieces and an entertaining plot line...that's what you get. One of the better movies of the summer, because while it plays serious enough, it knows it is here to put on a show and entertain us. In particular, I think Rainn Wilson does a good job of not going overboard while presenting an over the top type of character. Sit back and smile as the chaos fills the screen.
This movie feels a lot like Jaws even though it has different story line - the essence is the same.
Lots of cliches but if you see it with the mindset that you want to be entertained for couple of hours - go for it, otherwise you will not enjoy it. Nothing spectacular as far as cinematography goes, so don't waste your money on premium screenings. It has few jump scares, also people were eaten (as it should be expected).
The prescreening that I attended was in 3D but besides couple of into your face moments the 3D didn't bring much to the table.
Surprisingly, there were a lot of funny jokes which made the movie more enjoyable.
Fun Fact: Something that I noticed and it bugged me a lot: after the intro of the movie there was a scene with a helicopter flying over the ocean, near cliffs. Whoever added the helicopter digitally was an amateur - the proportions were so bad. You could clearly see the ripples, the waves crushing into the cliff and if you've been near real ocean you can judge how close the camera to them is but the helicopter was so small that it looked the size of a drone when compared to the ocean ripples. They probably wanted to make it look like the helicopter was far in the distance and that the ocean is vast but it was a poor attempt. Reminds me of a stock photo from a reputable site that was a beach and palm trees. I enlarged the ocean water to use as a background (graphic design job) and I saw the pool tiles clearly - someone had stitched the photo. This helicopter was even worse!
A poor floppy specimen. 4/10
The Dolby Atmos Sound is brilliant 10/10
The 3D is a 5/10
It's Clearly been heavily cut - not just deaths. Even the regular scenes have conversations ending with odd reaction shots.
The 3D drowned:
The titles were great! Floaty bits in your face:
But they didn't bother doing it for the rest of the underwater scenes.
*1 thing hits you in the face in the 3rd act
Nice nod to Jaws with 'Pippin'
If you're expecting hilarious deaths from below go watch Piranha 3D (from a few years ago, not the sequel 3dd) it had brilliant 3D & is a whole lot of fun.
when I first so the trailer & the pitch of this movie I espect something simple & short as very often ( almost always bad movies in this category )
don't loose this one :) between a horror movie & a science fiction one if you like those kind of movies like me you will have a great time
with really few personages only 5 I think but very good actors
this movie is so original great I love it :)
Abbey Lee is great I love her play & her superbe sexy body
with 2 beautiful actors : Abbey Lee is superbe as always
& mister Ciarán Hinds also is superbe good in this role
,Carla Gugino is also surprising good in this movie ( very nice body )
this movie is great and original I loved it , a little crazy like should be more in cinema , some very good flash back :)
you will not loose your time
you will not guess how the movie will unfold
that surprises from super scenarios
until know super movie simple & well played & very acceptable & much more unexpected , a lot's of surprises ! ! !
I had watching this movie 1h 40 minutes of pleasure great it's not often
An excellent young adult movie with a novel take on special powers. Excellent young cast. Thriller pace with tender moments. I give this movie an 8 out of 10. [Super Powers]
I thought Ex Machina was (although flawed) an excellent movie, Annihilation was just crap though. Apart from the outfits, there was nothing even remotely military about any of them, the whole thing just didn't know where it was going or why, it was a huge confused mess. It probably would have made a good TV episode in an anthology show, but just not enough there to make a decent film. It put me in mind of Arrival (easily the worst sci-fi movie of recent times), low-brow junk masquerading as high-brow gold. Both were designed from the ground up to make stupid people think they are really smart. If a film is advertised as 'highly intelligent' they should at least be moderately intelligent, but this doesn't even come close. The fact the ending is somewhat ambiguous and there are several different theories about it doesn't mean the film is cleaver, it just means the ending has more than one interpretation. I'm not saying films should spoon feed you all the answers, in fact, I hate when that happens, It's great being able to contemplate a movie and it's meanings after the fact, the problem here is it gives you so little of worth to actually think about.
The movie touches on a lot of topics, and shows a lot, but never ultimately explains what happened, it just happens with no explanation.
The ending with Lena fighting her doppelgänger and detonating the phosphorus grenade was awful. What did the alien ultimately want? It is unclear.
I now take "From the writer and director of Ex Machina" as a warning.
Thought it was a great movie. Excellent cinematography and acting. Well casted as well.
Nice thriller, but after an hour the twist is easy to figure out which takes the bite out of the rest of the film. Let’s see what David Chirchirillo brings next, as I really liked Cheap Thrills he wrote!
The Night Eats the World is a tame zombie with no teeth when I was hoping for a ravenous beast that would get under my skin and stay there.
Sam the zombie whisperer in 28 sequels later
You can't find authentic Mexican food in Paris. You can't find authentic Chinese food in Paris (the restaurant signs proclaim Asian Caterer, as if Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese cuisine was the same), and you can't find authentic Indian food in Paris for the simple reason that French food is so good, that whenever they borrow another nation's cooking, they alter it to make it more French.
This phenomenon frequently happens with cinema, as well. Carnivores had all the fixings of a decent thriller with some moments of intense suspense, but then they ruined the feast by adding too much French sauce. By this I mean that they mixed in too much art and too much thinking.
Which was a shame -- and unnecessary -- because the cinematography was so striking that it gave an after-taste of art to the whole affair already, so the film didn't need the overlong scenes, the extended silences or the super closeups. A fast and simple thriller would've gone down much better and been in better taste than this burger made up to look like filet mignon.
I loved the movie! It was really fun to watch from beginning to the end. The cast was perfect and the whole story is just so amazing and funny! The fact that it's after a true story is just so adorable and amazing! The ending really hit me in the heart, but I loved it and the ending scenes where we even got to see a few clips from the real-life event. Great work I really have nothing bad to say, I don't even mind that it finished with a kind of a cliff-hanger even though I HATE those.
Ugh. I LOVE Jason Statham and will see anything he's in. I even saw that trash heap Mechanic 2 in theaters. This was also no good. Generic, cheesy not in a fun way, and cliched. And the CGI oy oy oy. Look I know they're not gonna shoot with a real shark, etc, but I just don't feel any stakes knowing it's all CGI bullshit. I feel like MI6 has spoiled movies for me haha. I need every actor to go all Tom Cruise please!!
This was a good movie. Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer were the draw but the movie was more than I expected. Usually, unlikable characters cause me to lose interest but I'm glad I hung in there - these characters filled out as the movie progressed. Good acting. Nice storytelling. Stupendous commercial for Royal Caribbean Cruiselines. As a side note, comedian Seth Rogen, a Canadian actor, played a Canadian in a very likeable, vulnerable way, but, is it my imagination, or is there a new American trend to poke fun at the Canadian image of being nice (maybe a little naive and simple) people? Well, I guess the haters could do worse. Notwithstanding the possible poke, I give this film a 7.9 (nicely good) out of 10. [Dramedy]
Great movie, funny and poignant at the same time. Kelsey Grammer is great and Kristen Bell is her usual adorable self. 9/10
Watching Whitney and Kevin starting their special friendship, is magical.
The lyrics of I wanna run to you
Are selfexplanatory...
I know that when you look at me
There's so much that you just don't see
But if you would only take the time
I know in my heart you'd find
A girl who's scared sometimes
Who isn't always strong
Can't you see the hurt in me?
I feel so all alone
I wanna run to you..
Whitney..., Rest in peace.
So good Scenes between some really annoying dialogues. But definitely entertaining.
Excellent 'home' invasion horror movie. I would have rated it higher however the ending was pretty lame (but any excuse to get the 'final girl' in her underwear must be taken... rolls eyes)
This movie is terrible. All the actors are Spanish, but the movie dialogues are in English, and bad English at that. I understand that the protagonist's boyfriend is British or something, so she must speak in English with him, but why did the bad guys speak English between them? It was so unnecessary and silly. The acting in this movie is horrible, the dialogues are unnecessary and stupid and everything else is just lame. They did a poor job
I should really keep my hands off movies that were presented at any given film festival.
Turned it off after about 45 min. Don't like they way it's made, with all this back and forth in the timeline. If you want to present a message make the movie interesting to watch. Than there is, of course, all this for God and Country stuff hinted. Strong talk from officers about "this is the most important day of your life" and a sargeant who goes with bare arms into combat like he got right out off an 80s Vietnam movie.
Of course this is a rather personal view.
