Review of Monsters

Monsters (2017 Video)
3/10
A mish-mash of...Whatever
15 November 2018
Warning: Spoilers
A low budget film from Germany with some badly spoken English that have some actors speaking with different accents. One of the main actors in the beginning sounds a bit Scottish, though maybe he is Scottish. Maybe they should have just stuck to their native tongue of German. Though there is some characters who do speak German but then go back to English. So apparently it's about a desolate wasteland where genetically advanced humans rule over and oppress the last naturally birthed humans. I guess sex is frowned upon in this future. Virgins must have made the film.

The sets and costuming appear to be either from the local department of sanitation and/or things thrown out from other cheaply made films but though they're varying in its trashy mish-mash look, they're all so clean in this 'wasteland'. I read all the reviews; a few commented on the abundance of profanity. It has the normal amount of profanity that almost any other English-based film has that's rated 'R', actually probably a bit less There's also a story here. The main problem I saw was each scene is hurried along to the next scene which makes the catch-up (explaining of previous scenes) annoying. Also, there aren't that many (maybe one) seasoned actors, or mainly any actors in this film though they do try. There are some pathetically acted parts such as a scene 20-22 minutes in with this zombie-like dude walking toward another man before some ninja-girl kills him. The zombie-like dude was acting quite poorly. I really didn't get the sword carrying women fighters especially since some of them have machine guns, and there are tanks, and flying ships etc., it just seemed out-of-place.

Overall it's watchable if quite nonsensical throughout. If they did without the cheap theatrics of mutant monsters and just kept to the basic story and didn't rush it from scene-to-scene then I think it wouldn't have been that bad.
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