Reviews

No spoilers part:

M. Night Shyamalan's best works are movies about mythology, not really grounded in the real world around us.

This movie however tries to remain in our universe while creating a whole different universe which just doesn't make sense because M. Night Shyamalan barely understands physics, biology and medicine.

You know from the trailer that people on the beach were getting old very fast. To be precise they were aging 17520 times faster than the people living in the real world.

The problem is you cannot just "age", you need to speed up all the biological and physical processes just as much and for those people on the beach it would have meant that they'd had needed to eat 18K more (or faster), require 18K more oxygen and they'd have been basically glued to the feeding tube and the waste tube simultaneously.

Even if we imagine this theoretical possibility, that wouldn't allow people to psychologically/intellectually grow just as fast because in real life that means a ton of interactions with the real world, including dealing with/talking to people, reading, analyzing, doing, etc.

Now, spoilers.

OK, that was some isolated region on Earth which some company used as a testing ground for new medical research. The problem is their clients took medicines just once before departing to the beach.

The vast majority of medications don't work that way. You need to take them periodically. Also, considering their test subjects were under extreme stress, the effectiveness of the medicines could turn out to be minimal or missing altogether.

This super company which should in real life have a trillion dollar turnover has a single lab (!) with roughly 10 technicians/biologists and basically no security.

Younger children needed to eat a ton to grow fast but older people didn't. Whelp, it doesn't work this way. Yeah, cells in younger organisms get replaced faster but not substantially faster.

Now, onto the main issues with the production:

• The budget was very low and it showed. Actors aged randomly.

• Audio volume was all over the place and it was too loud too often.

• The movie looked cheap for the idea.

• The script should have been better thought out. I guess you still can make the movie work but not how it was ultimately cut.

Pros:

• Good performances

Cons:

• No/incomplete/cut off script
• Idiocy all around (People running randomly in random directions in the forest only to find each other in the end)
• No justification for anything happening (what is this town, why is the couple frowned upon?)
• Worth 2 minutes of footage (basically nothing has happened in the entire film)

The script it three sentences:

A young couple finds themselves in a weird rural town where they have to stay in a cabin for the night. They are chased and killed by most likely some locals for this reason: "Because you're here" . The girl miraculously survives because she somehow manages to call 911 prior to being killed and she is resuscitated despite her mortal wound. That's it.

Someone has forgotten the second part. This should have been one movie, not two or more.

I'd have loved this film to add something new and refreshing to the previous one, but it still glosses over the actual invasion and how those beasts found themselves on Earth.

It's also never explained how aliens who could traverse millions of light years are simple stupid carnivores. You never see their spaceships and tech, you never see them communicate. They just chase random people and kill them seemingly for fun. You have to believe that people taste better than let's say cows.

And then these beasts often act like it's convenient to the plot. This is especially true close to the end of the film. Sometimes they are snappy and angry, sometimes they take their sweet time to kill/eat humans or they pretend like they are dead/sleeping.

I like monsters that I can relate to, whose intelligence is something to marvel at. These beasts are not that.

As I'm getting older I want to see films which deliver a complete picture and feature characters I can relate to.

The biggest issue with this film is that both its protagonists are getting progressively crazier and at the end of the film you don't understand if the central issues posed in the film (loneliness and finite lifespan) are still valid as everything spiraled out of control.

To add insult to injury the films ends with a huge cliffhanger, and one of the actually nicest, kindest and honest characters (who everyone thinks is a dimwit) commits suicide.

I really don't know what to make of it. I'm also exceptionally lonely (no friends to speak of for the past several years), I'm also aware of my imminent death sooner than later but this film gives me neither hope, nor even hints at solutions of how to deal with this.

This could have been an OK movie about a psychopath and people who love gore would have probably appreciated it.

It builds the story, tension, you don't understand what was the motive of revenge until at the very end when the protagonist turns out to be Devil or a devil incarnate and that destroys everything at least for me, since I'm not into religions or religious movies. It makes him invincible, so what's the whole point?!

The police or guards in the movie are nowhere to be seen. Or, the ones which are shown are deeply corrupted. There's not a single honest, kind, caring and true to their job officer.

The director takes a lot of pleasure in torturing and killing women both by the protagonist and and his antagonists.

Even if this had been a movie about a psychopath, it would be hard to root for anyone in the movie as almost all the people in it are royally flawed.

There's literally nothing that I enjoyed.

In year 2065 human beings are sent everywhere instead of drones.

In year 2065 a single person decides to wipe entire nations.

In year 2065 airplanes can reach a low Earth orbit.

In year 2065 CCTVs are not a thing.

In year 2065 super advanced AI cannot properly hide, builds its bases on the ground, makes them as conspicuous as humanly possible. A coating made of gold? Yes, please!

The same AI is OK with creating only a single entity with supernatural abilities which are never explained. This is not sci-fi, this is BS.

AI can be killed except when it cannot (The Ken Watanabe robot).

AI cannot shoot.

Things which detonate in a 100 meter radius do so abruptly, and while standing exactly 10 meters away you're completely safe.

I could go on. People who wrote this live a parallel world and are not even aware of what's going on in the world right now.

There will be spoilers, so beware.

This movie is a bloody very convoluted and complicated mess of ideas about loops where you can easily get lost what was before and what was after. In no particular order let me just list its pros and cons.

Let's start with cons:

• If you haven't watched the first three movies, you'll be lost and nothing will make any sense.

• Quite old Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss - well, they don't pull the chipper or look like they have superhuman abilities.

• The light humor sprinkled all over the place is somewhat inappropriate, considering the atmosphere of the previous films and the state of the current one (where people continue to live in a giant cave underground).

• Everything is lazy, overdramatized and the support cast doesn't have enough motives to vindicate their actions and heroism.

• Some machines have joined humans because ... reasons?

• The first three movies were really brutal and there's very little of it here despite its R-rating. There's zero nudity aside from bare hardly seen buttocks as well.

• Most fights are recorded using SHAKY camera.

• The end was turned into romantic/communist trash.

• The last battle/chase - oh, god, it's cringe-worthy.

• No bullet time fights whatsoever!

• No memorable scenes or dialogues.

• Too much dialog which tries to sound intelligent (the worst thing about Matrix II).

• Neo turned into a pussy.

• Trinity learned to fly right away while Neo couldn't quite master it until the very end of the movie.

• Too much mental problems (including suicide, self-loathing, depression and apathy), probably referring to the script writers.

• As with many (all?) superhero movies before it the abilities the characters have depend on the situations they are put in and the plot which is IMO should be left to fairy tales.

• Hardly any new ideas.

• What's the point of the whole movie again?

Pros:

• Self-irony and self-reflection in bulk.

• Ridiculing anything and everything (in the movie someone says that Warner Brothers ordered The Matrix 4 game), including religions, habits, marketing, human nature.

• Some philosophy like there's no freedom of choice, even in the real world.

Overall it's a fan service and not very good at that. If I were to rate the Martix movies from the best to worst, the list would be: 1, 3, 4, 2. The last two on this list should probably have never been made.

So,

Aside from the fact that it's currently impossible to clone people and the fact that genes expression and various epegenetic factors may make your clone look very much unlike you, and the fact that they were raised underground without any natural light sources, so there's no way they would look exactly like us, and more importantly there's no way they could create absolutely similar offspring, since genes randomly mix, so even two pairs of twins will never be able to produce similarly looking children, still other questions remain:

* Who and why raised literally hundreds of clones? * Who financed this? * Where is all the support infrastructure for their life? * How come some of them could easily sneak on to the ground? * What's this one "soul" in two bodies BS? * How come the clones knew where their counterparts lived?

And dozens of other unanswered questions.

This movie is logically and scientifically is one huge clusterfailure. I'm not sure why it was heralded as the best horror movie in years. It's the opposite of it.

Most of not all the low reviews for this film are from people who haven't understood it at all. Also the trailers don't do this film any justice and viewers were mislead by that.

So, what is this movie about?

It's about a genius boy who lost his farther who was a soldier in Iraq. His stepfather turned to be a sadist who terrorizes the boy and physically tortures his mother.

The boy, who still loves and misses his dad immensely, is thinking what to do in this horrible situation as his mother is unable to get a divorce since she is absolutely terrified by the new husband. The guy seems to work for mafia but we're never told. The boy is contemplating a murder of his stepfather but understandably it's a very difficult decision for him as he's just 13 or something.

In order to resolve his own dilemma, he creates a virtual world where he places his deceased dad (as an AI character) and presents this dilemma to him under different circumstance where his virtual mother asks her ex-husband to kill the new one for ten million dollars in cash. Everything and everyone in this virtual try to dissuade him from doing what he was asked for. In the end, his virtual dad kills his virtual stepfather and by doing he gives the boy a confirmation to do that in the real world. The boy then proceeds to kill his step father with a knife and this is where the film ends.

The music in the film is absolutely stunning. Everyone played out of their mind. The premise is sad and beautiful. I loved the film beyond words.

This is the second time in my life I walked out of the movie theater.

The film is basically a load of ages old cliches along with absolutely cheesy jokes, absurd situations, political correctness, people of all colors, and an ill-thought script which cannot even answer a basic question as to why they decided to adopt children instead of having their own one(s).

I do understand that the film tries to attract our attention to the issue of homeless/parentless children but it does it in the most unpalatable way. And it never tries to caution against making children recklessly.

Hollywood puts restrictions on the minimum viewer's age. This film should have mandated the maximum viewer's age which should have been around 14 cause this movie is an insult to intelligence.

Yesterday I finally watched the film and I was left hugely disappointed.

Characters of the movie are barely developed, events are extremely compressed and none of them were given enough coverage, the director doesn't quite understand what deserves the viewer's attention: was it Freddie's bisexuality, his wild parties, his loneliness, his flamboyant character, his relationship with his father, his love for music, his vocal abilities, etc. etc. etc. There wasn't nearly enough drama despite his untimely demise. Nothing was given enough screen time unfortunately. The film turned out to be bland and flashy, with very little substance.

Freddie Mercury deserves at the very least three full-featured films each 3,5 hours long. This film doesn't do him any justice.

So, what does this movie teach us?

* At the age of 17 it's natural for a young beautiful French woman to try herself as a prostitute without any reasons for that. * The work of a prostitute lacks any perils whatsoever, and it's even OK to have unprotected sex as long as your client claims he's married and shows you a ring. There are no STDs in this world at all. * You may lie to your parents about the things which can be extremely dangerous. * Almost everyone is cheating on everyone. * A 17 old girl (a female friend of the protagonist) is crying because the guy could only have sex with her for three minutes before ejaculating which is absolutely normal for a first sex. * The death of one her clients is barely investigated if anything. * The police may come into your house without a search warrant yet searches through everything. * Parties for the young in France consist of insane amounts of booze, drugs and it's OK to have group sex publicly. * Not living with your own father who divorced your cheating mother while you were very young is enough of a reason to fall in love with a 60 years old guy who's gentle with you.

I can't recommend this film to anyone with a brain.