Review of Monsters (2010) by Tero H — 21 Oct 2012
I'll just list a list of pluses and minuses:
- short and still very slow, tedious. I was bored.
+ when the aliens are on screen, they are well done and interesting.
- but the problem is, they rarely if ever are.
+ tries to copy films like War of the Worlds and Stephen King's Mist, which is a great idea.
- but it doesn't work at all.
+ special effects are well done.
- doesn't really work as either: relationship drama and showing people's faces close range -like a soap opera- nor scifi. Should stick to either one in this case, but doesnt.
Not utter rubbish, but fails and disappoints as a scifi film and is not much to talk about as anything else either. The aliens are a bit of a rip off from the Mist, District 9 or Cloverfield, which might have worked, had they done some work in explaining where they were from and so on. A bit of a background. Had it been less tedious and had two more scenes with aliens, it would have been much more interesting.
One fun detail though: At the beginning of the movie, the soldiers are shown going to fight one of the monsters, and one of the soldiers hums to a tune. It is the same tune which could be heard when the docking computer is activated in the first version of the classic scifi computer game Elite by David Braben, a musical rendition of The Blue Danube Waltz, also the same in the space docking sequence in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Just a thought.
This review of Monsters (2010) was written by Tero H on 21 Oct 2012.
Monsters has generally received positive reviews.
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