Assassins that hijack people's body to commit their murders. Interesting concept, though not revolutionary.
The main character is well portrayed, specially the dissociation that comes from her work, the way she trains when inside a new body, the way she tries to become herself again when back to her own. That's the most interesting aspect of the movie. Following the mission itself, while in the Colin's body is mildly interesting.
The killings are uselessly violent, I guess it serves as a tell sign that something is wrong with her, as she was supposed to do it cleanly and fast, but this aspect is never really developed.
The second part, inside Collin's body after she fails to come back to her own is less interesting. The I guess the conflict between the two spirits in one body is the whole point, but it does not really take.
Small role for Sean Bean (he dies), he's good (obviously). Jennifer Jason Leigh has less of a chance to shine.
Bonus points for taking over the child's body at the end, that's a good idea, however, as we've seen how the technology works, it seems like it would have been unrealistic to do. It seems like a last minute measure and/or a precaution, but that's not how it works. They can kidnap him long enough without the father noticing ? She would also have needed a long adaptation, specially with such a different body. Also it seems it must always end with the host's death, so what was exactly the plan here if it actually went well ? Get her back, and sorry we had to kill your child just to be safe ?
This whole things is basically an episode of The Outer Limits.
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@fly_ I disagree. The purpose of the violence is to slowly show the audience of her character. Initially she seems like someone having issues with dissociating from her work. But the ending shows that this is NOT the case. She wanted Michael to be gone from her life so she can focus on her work. Remember the scene when she told Colin exactly that.
But then the film asks again, whose idea that is? Still in the same scene when she told Colin she doesn't know if she really loved Michael or it was an idea she got from someone else. Did she want Michael to be gone because she has degraded to a cold-blooded killer due to her job? Or has she always been a violent person, as shown repeatedly that she takes pleasure being drenched in blood and doing gruesome murder? The violence is an attempt to invite the audience to such questions. Even the ending as the butterflies were put down, there's another question there.
All I can say is, you neglected the most important part of the story. For example, you should have explained about BB origin, the planet and so. Most of the events in the movie are insignificant. Out of logical thinking for me personally. You see, BB came from a decent family especially the mother, a desperate and a loving mother. How on earth can you turn a boy into a monster when he has decent background. There's no reason why he felt disgusted with Earthlings and drove him to kill people. Evident : durinf BB meeting with his aunt a.k.a thr counsellor he said he was thankful that his parents are not from this stupid place. Any reason why he had the line? Did his parents abuse him in certain way? The urges to do evil from the capsule itself is not enough to explain his bad deeds. Another thing is, he broke his classmate hand. Killed her mother and uncle for a wrong reason. He was guilty and yet somebody else is paying for his sin? Not a good story though. I can't stop thinkin how shallow this story is when you didn't explain, logically what turns a boy into evil when he has no family issues to ignite the fire.
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@chloe2018 hell I have a decent family, friends and still hate 99% of the earthlings and would be happy if the population would 1/3.
You don't need family issues, actually that's kinda blaming.
One of the worst films ever. It gives no explanation, purpose, or premise. It was as if the budget got slashed during filming. Sad. At least it was short.
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@jordanculp20 What are you dumb or did not pay attention? It explained he's an alien and much like Superman and evil like old Saiyans from Universe 7. His purpose was to end the world again like Saiyans. And that's pretty much the premise an evil Superman.
Oh how I missed the Steve and Dustin banter. :heart_eyes: Robin's character is absolutely unnecessary. What a waste of screen time that could've went to literally anybody else. IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO MAX, I WILL RIOT!
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@khawlah Totally disagree about Robin. Her friendship with Steve is wonderful and adorable (one of the best friendships on this show for sure, and before her Steve had pretty much no friends other than Dustin), and I like the way they're pairing her up with Nancy this season since she also has no friends other than Jonathan. Even aside from the LGBT representation, which is fantastic to have, she's a smart and funny character who contributed plenty to the plot (decoding the Russian message last season and figuring out how to find Eddie in this one).
Review by aniforprez
Without spoilers, this is a very well constructed movie that I felt wasn't written as well as it thinks it is but it's still a good watch
Now spoilers:
I'm really not particularly a fan of "it was all a dream" endings and this movie seems to have been made in the height of that phenomenon following The Sixth Sense. Despite that, I suppose what elevates this movie significantly and makes the ending work is that the movie never really lies to you. It makes it very apparent very early on that it is a dream. The choices made by the director in the editing, the clever scene transitions and the easter eggs peppered throughout make it very obvious that all is not as it seems and it disorients you constantly
In that way, the movie is very well made. A lot of very clever choices were made and the movie tells a lot just by showing. For eg. for the most part, every scene set in a stairwell is always shown with the characters going down, the use of morph transitions occasionally makes you mistrust what you see and so on
I suppose my big problem is with the writing. Now I didn't really like that the primary POV, that of Doctor Sam was fake. It seemed quite disingenuous that we see Sam losing his mind more so than Henry who gets very little screen time yet is the one who is dreaming. The movie also gave itself away far too early. Maybe it's just me having watched so many movies but it was highly apparent from the first scene of the car crash and Henry walking away that that was what had happened. Any other attempts at trying to convince me, the viewer, that maybe Sam was losing his mind really made no sense and I was expecting Sam to be a figment of his imagination. This meant I was pretty severely disappointed that Sam was a bystander helping out the dying Henry. The ending of Sam asking Lila out was also a very contrived moment that I really disliked and would have worked better if they'd exchanged numbers as witnesses to an accident. The whole movie could have tried to be more subtle but I felt the writing was trying way too hard and going "YOU GET IT YET? YOU GET IT? IT'S A DREAM DO YOU GET IT?" at me without really earning itloading replies
@aniforprez ... the biggest problem seems to be YOU !!! :-D :joy:
The Mandalorian started out OK, but ended up as some half-baked, lazily written show that exist merely to lure parents to justify a Disney+ subscription. Kids get the usual Disney contents, moms get Baby Yoda, dads get Star Wars nerdy reference. The show almost feels like being made by a bunch of fanfiction writers with familiarity of the setting but zero sense of screen writing.
Nothing wrong with liking it, it's just the show appears to be all style and no substance.
Storyline shows no complexity at all. In fact, most of them are fillers. You can skip 4 of 8 episodes and you'll still understand the story just fine. Characters are completely uninteresting. None of them are developed. None of them had nuances: protagonists are morally good heroes; antagonists are one dimensional evils. The show relies only on a cute muppet and flashy action, but has zero substance. Had a potential great world-building with some details, but they chose to abandon it for rule of cool (and cute).
The "it's Star Wars, so it'll be simple" excuse commonly said by the series' defenders doesn't hold up if you actually consider other Star Wars titles such as Knights of the Old Republic, Republic Commando, Jedi Academy, Thrawn trilogy, the original and Tartakovsky's Clone Wars, and so on. Those titles are known for having remarkable storytelling; something that The Mandalorian doesn't have for its poverty of creative vision.
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@xaliber Yeah skip most of the episode, like that you can write this kind of comment... hahaha I would say you to watch all of them at least twice... Perhaps like this you will see that there are lot of more than just a "show that appears to be all style and no substance" !!!
Shout by DRNKMNKY
One of the worst and most hyped films I've ever seen. I absolutely don't get what this flick wants to tell me.
Besides that, it is neither thrilling nor entertaining, so I can only hope that there is a message and deeper meaning to it that I just don't get... However, I would recommend to stay away from it if you expect a SciFi thriller because I know for sure that Blade Runner is not thrilling at all.
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@drnkmnky I just checked your history. Your favorite movie is Frozen and your favorite TV show is The Big Bang Theory. This comment was expected of you.
hum...
I might be biased but I thought this was a complete waste of my time !
YES this is beautiful, YES there is some action and YES the aliens (and gory scenes) are great in this movie, but well...
I'm not spoiling there but : how can a crew responsible for 2000+ lives in a colony mission be so incompetent ?
I know the whole point of Alien films is to mix human errors and bad luck to make bad times, but this is just too much !
Overall, the scenario was quite hollow.I'll be spoiling a bit from now on :
really the only enjoyable moments were brought by the Synthetic stranded on the planet, this old generation David who served Dr Shaw was the only one bringing a bit of character depth, in the end I only wished he would "win" and was pleased to see that that's what happened.
The complete lack of responsibility from the crew was numbing : who would risk losing a spacecraft with thousands of souls onboard waiting to create a colony in a raging storm just to hope to have a contact with his half ? Who would again risk all colonists' lives and decades of preparations just to visit a planet they barely know anything of, just because they received a lost transmission of some singing ?
I know these are classic ways to bring this kind of situation in films, but the way it was brought was not subtle in the least.
In the end, while it was pretty clear for me that they had returned with the wrong David, this was the only really enjoyable moment.
Again, I'm encouraging everyone reading me to see for themselves and make their opinion, but for me this was a miss.loading replies
@frikilax Bad leadership when you leave thousands to save one person who might have already been dead and left an old message (though there is a possiblity that they are alive and the information with them is useful). I also noticed that they were poorly prepared for the landing. No safety at all, no gears, no helmets, no firewalls, pathetic safety standards. Even that stupid ass cowboy risked the life of those colonists. Poor leadership team in general. Even when they were inside David's abode, they were just go alone, I wouldn't take that chance even with a cockroach. Only David's character was likable, and that out of the crew members only that lady pilot had some common sense in her. Poor her that the baby facehugger broke the glass and the boom boom later on. After the event too, the lady captain nor Mother bothered to check David/Walter. They even had no backup when things went tits up. They should have known they might get killed. Should done something about it.
Sad to see Dr. Shaw in her state. :( Like you said, Bad decisions and bad luck. I liked the movie though.
hum...
I might be biased but I thought this was a complete waste of my time !
YES this is beautiful, YES there is some action and YES the aliens (and gory scenes) are great in this movie, but well...
I'm not spoiling there but : how can a crew responsible for 2000+ lives in a colony mission be so incompetent ?
I know the whole point of Alien films is to mix human errors and bad luck to make bad times, but this is just too much !
Overall, the scenario was quite hollow.I'll be spoiling a bit from now on :
really the only enjoyable moments were brought by the Synthetic stranded on the planet, this old generation David who served Dr Shaw was the only one bringing a bit of character depth, in the end I only wished he would "win" and was pleased to see that that's what happened.
The complete lack of responsibility from the crew was numbing : who would risk losing a spacecraft with thousands of souls onboard waiting to create a colony in a raging storm just to hope to have a contact with his half ? Who would again risk all colonists' lives and decades of preparations just to visit a planet they barely know anything of, just because they received a lost transmission of some singing ?
I know these are classic ways to bring this kind of situation in films, but the way it was brought was not subtle in the least.
In the end, while it was pretty clear for me that they had returned with the wrong David, this was the only really enjoyable moment.
Again, I'm encouraging everyone reading me to see for themselves and make their opinion, but for me this was a miss.loading replies
@passy you don't even like movies, you're only watched it in hopes of seeing David's 8 incher
hum...
I might be biased but I thought this was a complete waste of my time !
YES this is beautiful, YES there is some action and YES the aliens (and gory scenes) are great in this movie, but well...
I'm not spoiling there but : how can a crew responsible for 2000+ lives in a colony mission be so incompetent ?
I know the whole point of Alien films is to mix human errors and bad luck to make bad times, but this is just too much !
Overall, the scenario was quite hollow.I'll be spoiling a bit from now on :
really the only enjoyable moments were brought by the Synthetic stranded on the planet, this old generation David who served Dr Shaw was the only one bringing a bit of character depth, in the end I only wished he would "win" and was pleased to see that that's what happened.
The complete lack of responsibility from the crew was numbing : who would risk losing a spacecraft with thousands of souls onboard waiting to create a colony in a raging storm just to hope to have a contact with his half ? Who would again risk all colonists' lives and decades of preparations just to visit a planet they barely know anything of, just because they received a lost transmission of some singing ?
I know these are classic ways to bring this kind of situation in films, but the way it was brought was not subtle in the least.
In the end, while it was pretty clear for me that they had returned with the wrong David, this was the only really enjoyable moment.
Again, I'm encouraging everyone reading me to see for themselves and make their opinion, but for me this was a miss.loading replies
@passy you make stupid decisions when youve misplaced your Iphone for too long lol...and lets face it, you've probably never had a real.job either, definitely not one thousands of light years from home where your friend/Captain just burned alive in front of your face haha yeah, you got this huh? Probaby an app for it...ohhhh Aliens again??? Hold on let me see if the Weyland Play store has anything new to download... there's no making fair weather fans like you guys happy...impossible lol...now do what you sheep are designed to do, and go hate on the new Blade Runner too. Baaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hum...
I might be biased but I thought this was a complete waste of my time !
YES this is beautiful, YES there is some action and YES the aliens (and gory scenes) are great in this movie, but well...
I'm not spoiling there but : how can a crew responsible for 2000+ lives in a colony mission be so incompetent ?
I know the whole point of Alien films is to mix human errors and bad luck to make bad times, but this is just too much !
Overall, the scenario was quite hollow.I'll be spoiling a bit from now on :
really the only enjoyable moments were brought by the Synthetic stranded on the planet, this old generation David who served Dr Shaw was the only one bringing a bit of character depth, in the end I only wished he would "win" and was pleased to see that that's what happened.
The complete lack of responsibility from the crew was numbing : who would risk losing a spacecraft with thousands of souls onboard waiting to create a colony in a raging storm just to hope to have a contact with his half ? Who would again risk all colonists' lives and decades of preparations just to visit a planet they barely know anything of, just because they received a lost transmission of some singing ?
I know these are classic ways to bring this kind of situation in films, but the way it was brought was not subtle in the least.
In the end, while it was pretty clear for me that they had returned with the wrong David, this was the only really enjoyable moment.
Again, I'm encouraging everyone reading me to see for themselves and make their opinion, but for me this was a miss.loading replies
@frikilax Then I'm surprised you even watched this film after so many previous Alien films... They were all like this... I loved this one by the way, just as I loved the old ones. I was able to set aside the stupidity of the crew because I'm used to it after the other films. I was baffled Ripley could even survive the first films... Every single choice made by a character in the alien franchise is just retarded... But that's the case in a lot of suspense thrillers... I also liked David by the way ;-)
