Adonis Complex

+1 Star for the weirdness of the beginning......

But now the movie is going to have to start showing some substance.......

Weird, home owner / health nut, and really NUT in general shows up and weirdness ensues....

-1 Star that Ben and Ave sit still for the foolishness of Tad.......

Okay the movie is kinda silly....

-1 Star for some serious unbelievable silliness, but really there's not that much to kill the score on

The ending wasn't impressive... but....ah well...

4/10

Not a bad movie, but seriously folks, can't people involved w/ the production STOP giving 10's to their movies just to bump up the aggregate score? 1) you can just tell when someone's making up a review, you don't need ESP. And 2) even those admitting to involvement, a 10?, seriously? If you truly love great movies then stop insulting movies like Casablanca, Psycho, Gone w the Wind, even Night of the Living Dead, etc, by giving your movie better ratings than the classics, it's embarassing. Show a LITTLE objectivity and SOME restraint by giving it what it is, a 4 to a 6.

The lead antagonist is not the only one suffering from delusions in this film. Adonis, like its Imperfect Host, has a little bit of an identity crisis. The film is unsure if it is a black comedy, a thriller, or a slasher. It never fully commits itself to any of these genres, and instead chooses to slowly oscillate between these three centres of gravity, managing an uneasy orbit through this trinary system of pathos and despair.

Somehow, this works. The acting is lumpy, and the pacing is a little deranged, yet it is watchable from start to finish. There are attempts at obfuscation, of layered narrative and meanings within meanings; all of this is fairly trite, but not so malodorous that I was compelled to rage-quit the movie.

There is little originality in this film, but that really isn't what this melange of genres is about. It does manage to engender feelings of unease and tension, and this is what counts. Watchable, if you have the time to give to an imperfect, but adequate, low-budget attempt.

It had a 5.7 IMDb review so I gave it a try. DON'T MAKE MY MISTAKE !Terrible movie. 0/10 !

Mind you, this is not a great movie nor is it anything we haven't seen before but they sure did a good job at keeping it interesting. Even dough the movie does not advertise itself as a horror comedy, it boasts a great deal of dark humor but never at the expense of the unsettling dynamic and atmosphere. The acting is not award winning level but fair. The movie score is effective. Overall, there is no boredom here and the film does not suffer from its obvious low budget. Its a good little movie to watch when you're in the mood for something dark and you just don't know what to put on.