Big Sky

Without Kyra Sedgwick and Bella Thorne, this film would not be worth watching. Although it contains a fair amount of suspense, it is very hard to follow. The male characters, including Frank Grillo, stumble through the dialogue. A little more "realistic" action would have been great. I give this film a six out of ten rating because of the fantastic desert scenery, and the female cast. I would have liked for the film to go a little more in depth as far as what treatment is available for the condition that afflicted the actress Bella Thorne. Not too many people are familiar with "Agoraphobia" and how serious it can be. All being said, I would watch this film a second time, and would probably enjoy it more.

The storyline is great, and had potential to be great the whole way through. Unfortunately there's more film, than there is story. For some reason someone decided to spend too much time defining the characters. All that did was create on again, off again, moments of intensity and boredom. All the same, if you're a Kara Sedgwick and/or a Bella Thome fan, this would still be worth watching on a cold rainy day when you want to curl up on the couch with a blanket and bowl of popcorn.

Hazel (Bella Thorne) suffers from debilitating agoraphobia. Her mother Dee (Kyra Sedgwick) takes her to a desert treatment center. She is transported in a box inside a van along with other passengers. Suddenly, the van is attacked by sibling bandits and a girl is kidnapped. In order to save her dying mother, Hazel faces her fears to find help.

Not enough happens to make this thrilling. The characters are split up. They set up something but more needs to be done with it. It climaxes with a convoluted Mexican standoff. Much of it is unreasonable but mostly, it lacks tension or thrills.

I wanted so badly to like this movie. I read nothing but bad things but said, screw it people have awful taste and it sounds like a thriller. I am currently watching this movie ( about 20 min left) and I'm SO BORED I can barely stand it. 😞 I don't mind the acting, honestly it was just OK, especially with some big names. People definitely didn't understand a few of the psychological/emotional things that were creatively expressed in the movie which I especially found promising in the beginning when I saw a few of them. But still, the lack of literally any emotional or psychological "oomph" in this movie made me want to switch to another one at several points (and I definitely would have if I wasn't on a time crunch) I wanted to prove 'em wrong... This one proved them right

As someone who suffers from agoraphobia, the fear of open spaces, this movie does NOT depict it well at all. First off, the blinds in the truck would of been well enough to get across the desert--if someone had the nerve to even ride across a desert with this disorder anyway. We may be afraid of open spaces, but we sure aren't going to be putting ourselves in a tight box either to avoid it. Another thing, they should of interviewed an actual agoraphobe and had them work with Bella to get the acting right. If one of us found ourselves in the desert, we would be doing one of two things--standing frozen still with our palms slightly out and them sweating, while occasionally making jerky movements in response to any noises, etc happening, or moving quickly to the nearest thing we can grasp on to. Tunnel vision for us is NOT to the ground. It would be to whatever object we can be finding some safe solace from, as we quickly make our way to it to grasp on to it as though our lives depended on it. When someone has agoraphobia, they feel as though gravity is going to give out and they will lose all control of their body and environment. We feel as though we will be lost to the sky. We can literally feel the air that surrounds us to a degree most people will never understand, because our senses become that aware when we are in these types of environments and are on edge. If they wanted to depict this, they should of focused on the sky, the vast open space of the desert that goes on and on...the frantic glancing around looking for something to run and cling onto. They should of focused on her hands, held out and sweating--used some sort of sound effect to symbolize the vast openness surrounding her. There was so much that they could of done to make this movie actually about her battling agoraphobia, but they didn't. If they didn't mention she was an agoraphobe in the movie, then there is not one thing that actually depicted her being one. She just looks as though she had some other disorder.