Reviews

There was no reason for this movie. They fight a threat, over and over. That's it.

Not even as exciting or creative as a run-of-the-mill formula horror flick.

At least those have unique twists, side stories, details, etc.

This movie had none of that.

The ending was just a continuation of what had been going on the previous hour. Just people trying to escape the threat.

No explanation. No wrap up, no twist, no last-minute surprise.

As others have said, these guys make a series of unrealistically stupid choices. In the first 10 minutes, the guy that has one working leg decides to climb in 115 degree heat to the top of a small hill made of rocks in order to see if his cell phone works. His buddy goes with him.

Now, this is where I almost stopped because any thinking person would decide the non-injured guy will climb the hill and the injured guy will stay with the truck. In case, you know, someone comes by.

Not only that but neither of them looked at the phone the whole time they were walking. And he wouldn't be able to make that climb with that boot.

Their decisions don't get much better, but I enjoyed the ride: seeing what comes next, thinking about what I would do, and also considering a bit below the surface of what was actually said on screen.

It touches on changing friendships, lost dreams, life commitments, regrets, relationships, and joy.

Acting was very well done.

The ending: I suspected the writer might pull something like this. But it was done in an unexpected way. I loved the phone conversation at the end.

I'm choosing to believe that the reason behind his disconnection, unsteadiness, and questioning of reality is all from PTSD.

Very early in the film we see a series of clues that Gail and Tom are not the most responsible, brightest bulbs.

The dog has no lifejacket. Gail turns into a giggling 6-year-old whenever Wade talks to her. Wade tries repeatedly to drown Tom, and afterward Tom just looks at him suspiciously.

Gail and Tom are given numerous in-your-face clues that these are "bad guys." Even after they become suspicious, they watch without objection their son float away in the raft with Wade and Terry.

And after all pretense is over, Gail and Tom have plenty of obvious chances to fight and escape, but they don't. When they do make some inane failed attempt, they meet it with an "Aww, shucks" -type response

Even the boy Rourke does the typical annoying movie kid thing by loving the bad guy while hating on Dad, and fighting back when his parents try to pull him away.

So, there wasn't much attempt to make us want to root for these characters. I hated them pretty early on. I only stuck around for the scenery.

Regardless, never fear. By the end of the movie, these stupid, clueless parents have morphed into Supergirl and MacGyver. They also seemed to have developed psychic powers.

Be prepared to shake your head at the stupidity, and just sit back and enjoy the scenery.

*SPOILERS*

JUST DON'T waste your time. This would have been decent except for some things that were so illogical, they can't be overlooked.

~Main character moves into a building where her friend disappeared. Then her neighbors are missing. She sees blood all over their place. When the detective arrives, blood is gone. She takes charge of their foster daughter, who's traumatized from being in an alcoholic, abusive household and hearing her foster parents scream to death. That night, after all that, she takes the girl and stays there and purposely drinks herself into oblivion because she wants to see what happened to her friend. Because that all makes sense.

~Where is everybody? This is a huge multi-story building and we don't see or hear anyone else other than her and the next door neighbors. And apparently the rest of the building is hearing-impaired and can't hear the frequent screaming.

~The main character continuously tells the detective that something is off about a building she just moved into. She says her friend disappeared from there and others have too. She says there was blood all over the apartment of the missing people. He seems to always believe her, yet he doesn't do any investigating in the apartment. At all. Finally, she tells him she's trapped in the building and there are secret rooms and doors everywhere. She tells him where evidence can be found of what's gone on. He goes to the building. He and his officers take a few glances around and don't see anything so they leave. He learns the little girl has gone missing, too. But we are left to believe he never questioned the girl and that no further investigating was done.