Review of Dark Was the Night (2015) by Bobbytomorow — 24 Jul 2015

Great on paper but ultimately a boring snoozefest.

I went into this with high hopes what with the great cast of Kevin Durand, Lukas Haas and an on fire Nick Damici (loved his performances in Stakeland and Late Phases), a director coming off of a pretty decent first effort with Enter Nowhere and an interesting and mysterious premise shot in classic isolationist style a la The Thing, 30 Days of Night or Pumpkinhead. Even watching Dark was the Night its tough to really pinpoint what failed this film the most, because the acting here is on point, character development is great and nothing comes off as cheesy, everything is very convincing. What did it in, in my opinion, was its massively slow start with little to nothing going on...which can be forgivable if tension is being built or there is an engrossing atmosphere to get caught up in (think Alien) but there is literally nothing happening here for well over an hour, everything is uninteresting and when things finally start to get rolling the movie ends, the payoff simply falls well short for the investment the movie asks of the viewer.