Monsters ( 2010 )
Just finished watching the second half of this movie. Here is opinion:
Long. Dark. Boring.
The occasions we were allowed to actually see the monsters, the did look good. The special effects were good – but there wasn’t much.
I think the monsters were visible 2, maybe 3 times – the final viewing was the longest and most clear, but disappointing in that it was within 3 minutes of the end, so we knew nothing interesting was going to happen.
For a movie with the setup it has – a NASA probe breaks up over Mexico, seeding vast tracts of land with a virulent and massive alien life form – Monster fails rather spectacularly to deliver.
Overview: movie opens to a black screen with “this is a true story-esque” text outlining the situation. Situation: Mexico is covered in massive aliens.
Next scene was promising – a solider-cam view of the US army facing off against one of them. It left us thinking that there would be much more action.
The rest of the movie consisted of two people we had no emotional connection to wandering aimlessly across “The Infected Zone”, with very little intensity or anxiety, considering the environment.
The end left me wishing I’d never started watching at all.
Fail.
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I also saw the movie. The title ‘Monsters’ was a greatly misleading to say the least. Far more accurately might as well been called ‘Walking’ as thats basically all the two central characters did. The ‘ad hoc’ greatly amateur philosophy presiding all the way through was enough to make you gag, seriously, perhaps best emphasized in the conclusion or so called ‘climax’ where the ‘monsters’ (which we finally get to see) have an intimate moment and basically feel each other up, leaving the director shoving in our face, though without actually including in the dialogue… “wow their just like us! Maybe we’r the monsters!” Ah sickening!!!
Another annoying part that springs to mind as I write is when they stumble across this ancient Mayan ruin which just happened to pop out of nowhere. No vocalization of the amazing archeological theyve just find found right in front of them, instead simply more pleb philosophy as they sit on top the ruin. Anyway this movies not even worth a proper review I just had to vent some of the disgust still resonating post watching (it was weeks ago). Worst movie of 2010… fail indeed!
Also, when they’re on the Mayan ruins ( which are no where near the US border http://www.satellite-sightseer.com/id/7238 ), they drone on about their bumper-sticker-philosophy, instead of discussing serious issues like … lack of water or food. Or the monsters. Or that they have thousands of kilometers of jungle to hike through. With no water or food.
Ugh.