1st half was fun, but runs out of steam quickly
By the time it reaches the 2nd half it really does start to kind of go out with a whimper and has a super anticlimatic ending.
shareI think a lack of characters you cared about and too much ambiguity around what exactly was going on meant the film ran out of steam.
When our ‘hero’ in the second half is a dude whose goal is to murder an innocent father and child then there’s nobody to root for, and when he succeeds in an extremely graphic, gory bloodbath you’re just left depressed and disgusted.
Daddy Cronenberg at least brought us into his crazy worlds via a protagonist we cared about. Back to school, Branden.
That said, there was much to appreciate about the film and I’ll be looking out for mini-berg’s next project.