Review of The Monster (2016) by Stop9091 — 20 Mar 2017
A movie with many good qualities, completely ruined by a nonsensical and cliched plot.
The worst offense is that the characters take the worst possible choices at any moment - "there's something dangerous outside the car... what do we do?... LET'S GO OUTSIDE AND CHECK!".
Several other plot point just don't make sense or are extremely weak, most notably the monster is obviously extremely strong... but it dies in a cheesy way which not even a human would die in.
The weakness of the script also shows in the fact that while the drama is solid, the movie tries unsuccessfully to make a metaphor of it; the ending speech, which clarifies the metaphor, is just pretentious and disconnected.
As written, there are many good qualities, but I can only take so much nonsense. With better screenwriting, this could have been a really good movie.
This review of The Monster (2016) was written by Stop9091 on 20 Mar 2017.
The Monster has generally received mixed reviews.
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