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bad writing and horrible camera works cursed this movie


the movie is not fulfilling this movie premise, suffered from bad writing, and the camera works sucks donkey balls. this movie should be remade with a bigger budget.

i have the right to defend my judgement even though it's stupid and ridiculous.mwahahaha

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Is the camera view similar to Cloverfield? I think I stopped 30minutes in.


Like (having a body camera on you and when you're watching the movie you're seeing thru that persons body camera)

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Didn't Cloverfield just have the single POV. This movie switches between the POV of the main characters, and sometimes to a non POV shot - all this I'm finding most jarring, darn it.

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I couldn't agree more. They spent the majority of the budget on the actors but even them couldn't save the bad script and the amateur hour scenes. Maybe we are spoiled by Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead franchise but this was a real struggle to complete.

The second part was more interesting but couldn't get it above SyFy TV movie/Asylum quality.

Some agents are going to get fired for this or really should be.

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Yup, I'm an hour in and totally agree on the camera work. POV that swaps between characters seemingly at random, what a poor choice. Add shaky cam to that and its lazy and vaguely nauseating.

For some reason, I thought this was a show. Guess I'm glad that I only have half an hour left rather than trying to sit through a season.

Dear director, you aren't Paul Greengrass. Cut the shaky cam bs out.

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