Landing Lake

The story, in theory, is a fun, and chilling way to approach first contact tropes in sci-fi horror. I have seen it done well in movies like "Yellow Brick Road" and "Star Lead". Unfortunately "Landing Lake" never coalesces fully enough to marry the dreamscape psychedelia and core sci-fi aspects. It all plays out like a wilderness mushroom high but weren't all tripping the same.

The fault doesn't fully fall with script or direction. Not that there isn't some issues in both, it just seemed that too many concepts came into play without proper structuring. The acting is decent, some characters really came out strong. A couple were just so---ugh! They just made it impossible to fully succumb to the movie's experimental theatre vibe enough to wanna like this madness.

Now on a positive note, the cinematography is great. And on its own, the whole surrealism, arthouse style was- at times impressive. Sadly the foundation of the story and continuity just didn't come together to allow the audience to make sense of the going-ons. Another cool aspect is the creative, throwback score.

Nice images of a forest. I guess it was dubbed, which probably added to its weird atmosphere and the impression of poor acting. I found all the running around somewhat entertaining, but the scenario was very disjointed, so the plot didn't really make much sense to me. When things seemed to be going somewhere, they just stopped and went somewhere else. Plus, there were some characters, who just appeared out of nowhere, who seemed to belong in some other movie. I also found the "music" to be overbearing. There were some impressive gory effects and dramatic photography. Too bad the plot wasn't worked on more to get it tightened up.

"Landing Lake" is sunk by underwhelming acting acumen and proceedings so incomprehensible it is impossible to determine what these filmmakers intended. Except evidently to make their audience both baffled and bored.

It could have been a good movie with that plot. But NOT!!! Its crap all the way. Stay away i say.

Really don't need to say anything more. The acting was beyond bad, except for the accountant character. No real plot, and nothing made sense. Totally unbelievable: who would rescue plane crash survivors, but never ask them any questions. The psychedelic aire was totally off putting: basically, I didn't care about any of them, or what happened to them. I just wanted them to shut up and stop acting like total imbeciles. What a waste of my time: the best parts of the movie were the times I fell asleep during it. Total Crap!