I am a prodcued writer director and part-time critic. The reason the movie generally fails is because people don't think like this, and it didn't delve into the supernatural part of the movie like it seemed like it would.
Ultimately the movie doesn't touch base with reality yet doesn't delve into the hypothetical or experimental, so it doesn't end up going anywhere. There's a lot of overacting, and the screenplay feels written by one person instead of a team. The script is unimaginative, and by that I mean it's based almost in a hyper exaggerated, brutalized version of reality with zero sense of one event having any relationship to another that takes the world, makes it unbelievable yet doesn't create one of its own.
The videography stands out as bad, and doesn't serve to make the film more interesting by capturing or creating distinct, visceral pictures. It's almost the opposite of a Coen brothers' film, in which things move naturally and the landscape is captured in a mindful, symbolic way where one scene interacts with others throughout and establish motifs, etc.
The characters ramble without purpose, are superficial and lack substance, and the overacting is unbearable. The reactions are ultimately unbelievable, which is ultimately the worst thing a movie can do seeing as how it can make the impossible believable. I am also reacting to the praise being given to a "first time filmmaker." You need to make a few features before you make a good one.
