Review of Relic (2020) by Meiami — 23 Jul 2022
What a disappointment. I've seen a slew of recent IFC movies and they've all been bad. I get the point of it, but it's so slow and sparse and gross that I wished I'd have turned it off. You may as well watch a dead bird in a park decay.
Many significant plot points were hard to catch, such as notes on the wall with hard-to-read poorly-written writing in thin pen that causes someone to cry, or too-quiet dialog from far away causing shock.
There's some bizarre labyrinth scenes that go on too long, and the finale is ham-fisted. IFC tries to make A-production movies now mixed with slow navel-gazing and long drawn out scenes of people staring or slowly walking, and it just feels awkward and unnecessary.
This could have been a thirty-minute arthouse short with how little happens in it, but everything's dragged out so much that it feels stretched unbearably thin. I'll be avoiding IFC movies for a while now.
This review of Relic (2020) was written by Meiami on 23 Jul 2022.
Relic has generally received positive reviews.
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