Movie of the Day: " Monsters” starring Scoot McNairy & Whitney Able.
Length: 1:.34:22
Date of Review: 09-28-2010
Rating : 5.80 (a thought provoking end of the world scenario with some great scenery added but lacked in delivery of a creature. OK watch)
Movie Review: The end of the world has arrived and Mexico and USA border and probably 100 miles either way is called the Infected zone. The story starts with a photojournalist and a lost tourist have to take a real alternative route to try and get back to the USA. And as they start off the journalist boss asks him to return his daughter the tourist back to safe territory. The unknown Monsters become known pretty quick and are a knock off of the War of the Worlds creatures maybe the bad takes they didn’t want to include. The story itself was a little slow in my mind for the first half and took a long time to let a romance develop during times they were in. The first half of the movie was mostly about him wanting to get into her pants , then he settled in and the lack of horror scenes which I was expecting more , was overshadowed by some good , intense music to keep this flowing along well.
The movie itself was well done with the mystery in the air to keep you in suspense about what was really going on, the lack of people and communication kept the movie interesting and although I was expecting more the scenery was great and the story of survival and the underlying message that life is about our journeys and triumphs and challenges, and are we really going to crack when it comes down to the end. The classic bum with the shopping cart at the start with the laugh said it all. But the actors kept it quite realistic and believable so the movie really never felt as destitute as the end of the world type of movies normally do, so that kept you optimistic that more was there.
The creatures themselves at the end were OK but seemed to bring the movie down a notch where I thought they could’ve put more quality or design or thought because they were not very believable at all, but again I don’t think this was a multi-million dollar film so that is understandable and it didn’t really give much credibility to the rest of the movie which was done well.
The movie was thought provoking and many well played areas but still left me wanting more.
Even ….No thumbs up, but no thumbs down.
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