Outpost 11

This is a nice little slab of weirdness. Not the best acting, although not bad either. Odd storyline. Fairly low budget. But there are some interesting ideas, and I love the aesthetics of it. A challenging mix of sci-fi, classic war film, horror and psychological drama. No, not great, but it kept my interest until the end and I was glad to have seen it.

Having just watched this film and still digesting it I can say that the acting is great in the film and the idea is actually a good one. The thing that made me quite angry with the film is that it is just plain stupid as in it got to the end and the plot of the film made no sense to me whatsoever.

If this film was made to be all about the screenplay and very little to do with the plot then it is is worth probably more than 5 stars, however as i suspect that there is meant to be some great innuendo behind this film which i cannot for the life of me fathom without being in the writers head then this film deserves a 1 star.

I am actually a little angry still that i spent an hour and a half watching this but at the same time can appreciate the way it was made...

I don't know anyone that i could recommend this film to personally who wouldn't turn round to me after watching it and call me something not very nice but being a weirdo myself i guess i can empathize with the weirdness of the film?!

After a very stylish and interesting opening credits (which i actually gave the 1 for!) I'm sorry to say that this film is terrible in my opinion. I don't think at any point during the film I had my interest aroused. I kept watching in the hope that it would improve...but it actually got worse! Exploding hares (wtf), spider animation like "morph" from the seventies, a constantly masturbating old soldier (why?)and over the top ham acting from 3 of the 4 main cast members...just plain awful. 90 mins of garbage. If this film had some sort of hidden "meaning" behind it or is meant to make you "think" then I'd love to know what the hell it was supposed to be! Believe me, don't waste your time or your money on renting or buying this.

We looked at each other when it was finished & said, "Did that even make sense to you?" The reply was "no." The very last scene rewinds to a scene earlier in the film, but that even made no sense in the grand scheme of it all.

The best parts about it were:

One of the characters is very, very creepy. Luckily, I'm pretty sure he was meant to be. But I'm not sure if, in the 50's, there was really stuff you could inhale while you uh.....had your guy "me time". But what do I know about that sort of stuff. Anyway, it was a bit weird.

Other good aspect was it was a bit steampunk, which I like.

The acting wasn't bad.

After watching a lot of random movies by following others, we have decided that any blurb stating "in a remote, isolated........." means "there are 4 of us who decided to make a movie ourselves with no budget on a swatch of land owned by someone someone knows, because someone has access to some film kit"

It's a modest budget production but there are some great ideas here, good performances and a tension-inducing sense of claustrophobia. A great example of UK indie genre film-making.