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The movie started well, caracters study was good, the actors were decent, but then I realized the movie was dragging and not wanting to get to the the fulcral point of the narrative. When I realized the core plot only started being developed almost at the end of the run-time, I felt something was off. It ended being a run of the mill twilight zone wannabe but very stretched out. The message had good intentions, but it was written in a very forced artificial way. This could have been a much better movie, if it had gone the sci-fi route, but I guess they didn't know what they were aiming for, or maybe they did, but the execution was flawed. It has a very decent photography, and it's a shame how it ended so abruptly. It kept me hooked until the end, but the cheap ending, and some redundant micro plots, didn't do it for me. The plot holes were also lazy writing. With a bit more effort in the narrative, they could have had an Indy gem.

This movie was actually pretty good. The tension between the characters, the mistery, the cinematography. What I'm seeing regarding the bad reviews is "Oh, that ending", "What was this movie about?", "Oh so boring"... What's funny is that I dare to guess that most of these reviews came from people that enjoyed the TV show Friends to the core. Obviously they wouldn't like it. Cinema is dying because people stopped enjoying cinema, and are so impatient in their lives, that the only thing they find rewarding are thrill rides that feed them that immediate injection of dopamine that allow them to feel alive.

Thinking is too much to bare, they want to sitdown, feed on popcorn, chug on that coke and shutdown their brains, because, life is hard. And they are entitled to it, but, we are getting to the brink of excessive laziness from the viewers part. People are rushing everywhere as if their life depended on it. They are losing patience, and stop enjoying the little things.

A movie is not only about a freaking ending, but the whole emsemble. If I leave a movie and it stucks in my head long before I left, then, I can say that that piece of art made a difference and probably made me think differently. That to me is a good movie!

Well, overlong, over boring, no pace, it seemed some of the actors were not even trying. I guess the desire of wanting to like a movie overblew it's ratings, but while watching this yesterday I was deeply disappointed. What was the point of this movie? It was ludicrous seeing some of the characters being shocked with some of the events in the movie, where we the viewers, in other movies, have seen so much worse. Not that I'm a fan of violence, but here nothing was out of the ordinary. The reactions of the characters was very unrealistic, like "Whoa this was shocking", "Please don't show me that picture" as if it was something awful, but it was kind of artificial inserted and forced, due to the fact that the movie couldn't actually show that and be PG13 at the same time. It's like asking the viewers to imagine something horrendous without giving them a hint of what they should be imagining like "Just imagine that that thing we are implying is grotesque". As a parallel in Alien (and yes it's an R-Rated movie), most of the things that we were asked to imagine (people being slaughtered and killed, and even the creature itself, which is badly lit) all have a good hints, either visually or with sound (someone being killed in the background, doing nasty gurgling and screaming noises), with no need to show the scene itself. This one, was a kiddies movie, which actually couldn't be shown to kiddies, so it never knew how to present itself. I don't think this one will birth a new sequel. DC is really screwed and fragmented, better start over again, but this time with a long term plan!