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Struggled to get through it

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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Good concept, but the funny here was not really all that funny.

The monsters effects are top notch, but at no time did I ever get a sense that the humans were in genuine danger. They didn't seem even seem to be all that fearful in the way that the humans in The Quiet Place were in the face of alien predators.

At times this almost seemed like a monster version of Zombieland, especially when the main character trots out the 'rules' for surviving the monsters. Our main character does the meek and hapless Jesse Eisenberg thing, Michael Rooker was obviously the experienced Woody Harrelson counterpart and the two girls -- the kid and later the girlfriend were the kick-ass equivalents of Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin.

Okay for a watch, but wouldn't watch it twice, or a sequel.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8707) 4 years ago

These are more or less my thoughts as well. There's a lot about the film that is really good--it's certainly a well-made film in many respects--but there was just something missing. It felt kind of sluggish and lacked energy despite being an action-ish movie about humans fighting giant monsters.

I'm not sure exactly what the missing ingredient is, but it did lack something.

[–] OratiaGlake (1254) 4 years ago

Yes, this is something I was thinking too.
I watched it and it entertained me although I think more so AFTER it finished when I was questioning things that happened and inconsistencies/incorrect things that they decided to go with, for example.....
......the pretence that it was happening in the US but it was obviously Australia 😒
......the giant crab at the end which walked forward and not sideways 🤨
......if all invertebrates, amphibians, crustaceans and reptiles etc were affected by the chemical fallout then pretty much everything should have been destroyed already because just the invertebrate order contains over 95% of all life on Earth 😣