dynagirl

I've never seen a film that started out good take such a dive into complete and total awfulness. Seriously. I'm not kidding. The first third of the film, I'm thinking "why does this have such bad reviews?" It's visually spectacular and it's got an intriguing set up. But then you find out. For a while you doubt it'll get that bad. Maybe it'll just be mediocre. Eventually you wish you'd never even turned it on because now you're far enough in that no matter how bad it does get, you have to see how it ends. When you get to the end, you wish you'd actually turned it off when you first realized it was going downhill. Yeah, that bad.

The characters were underdeveloped and there was only one moment of good suspense. If they'd followed the science angle more it probably wouldn't have so bad. But instead they went into monster movie territory and ruined any potential for an interesting story.

It's not that often that I delve into movies past to find something to watch, but I've been so impressed with Lena Headey's work in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" that I've been checking out her past work. Boy am I glad I saw this one. What an outstanding film. Aberdeen is a pretty heavy character-driven drama, so I'm sure it's not for everyone, but I was pulled into this film from the start and it never let me go. Every time I thought I knew where the story was going to go next, I was happy to be wrong. And the performances alone from Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Headey really make this emotional journey well worth taking. Highly recommend.