The Coming

I was in the mood for a bit of a nail-biter of a film, and I came across this one while visiting you-tube. I was part way through watching it and paused it to make a tea. Although I had been enjoying the movie, I became curious as to other's thoughts and started reading the site's comments' section; it was then that I came to realize this movie is in fact a low budget film produce produced by someone who appeared to be a relative newbie to film-making, or at least that was the case when it came out in 2009. That said, I continued to watch this film with this fact in mind, which left me quite impresses, given what I presume were financial limits during filmmaking and an unknown cast. I am looking forward to finding and watching other films by this gentleman, and in seeing his career grow. I would also like to see if there is more out there by the various actors: ) So sit down and enjoy this thought-provoking and creatively crafted film.

The movie is not bad, it's interesting and all actors play very well. But the story is rather desirable, everything is a known cliché from other movies, the deja-vu feeling is present all the way. Everything is like a collage, head-to-head fragments, and too much dream in a dream ... To find out, in fact, that everything has never happened, it's just what: a young boy's dream, the nightmare of Young Tommy?

I watched the movie on YouTube while searching for science fiction movies. The plot development is quite slow, and while waiting for things to come together and make some sort of sense, I considered several times bailing. I held on though and towards the end, when I thought it was starting to make sense, the movie abruptly ended in a very unexpected scene. Most of the movement in the plot, occurs in the last 15 minutes. I wasn't even sure it was science fiction until the last scenes.

In the course of the movie, you are introduced to a variety of townspeople, each of which have town history that is not often discussed. I would have liked the ending scenes too have been moving more slowly, so there would have been a deeper understanding of the relationships between the townspeople.

The movie has an interesting theme, and the premise was thought provoking. By the ending scenes though, more questions had been raised them answered.

This is one of those movies that spoil you for Hollywood fare, because this is almost as good, yet was made by a rookie on a low budget. Throw 10 or 50 million bucks into the mix and the result should be far better... but here, it wouldn't be. Sure, a few things could be improved on, but you don't miss them here because the storytelling, editing, and directing are so good.

The acting was B-grade in a lot of places, but that's OK. Most of the leads were solid and the movie was about what was happening more than it was about any individual, so the acting didn't feel like the point.

My one complaint is with the ending, which confused me. The whole movie was leading up to... something, but I'm not sure what it was. Maybe I'll watch it again sometime to try and figure it out. Despite its low budget, it is enjoyable viewing. Very impressive debut!

This is a mystery movie with a drama beginning, a family middle and a science fiction ending. It takes the loose ends of UFO news and alien stories and weaves them into an interesting, sometimes even exciting plot but, unfortunately, leans on some stereotypes that come with the different genres, too. Well, what else do we expect from this kind of movie, I said to myself having watched it.

If we take this thought as a question the answer is: We want to be entertained, okay, but we want to be taught a little lesson, too. The film provides us with some nice tries in this direction but these don't get beyond the early stages. The best attempt, in my opinion, is the one that tries to explain the strange things happening in the town and worldwide with mankind's fear of itself. This idea, expressed in the talk between Tom, the protagonist, and Ezzedine, the mysterious oriental character, reminded me of William Golding's novel "Lord of the Flies" and Simon, its strange saint figure, who says: "Maybe it's only us". This could have been a worthwhile motif for "The Coming" if it had wanted to be more than enigmatic.

But all in all, this movie is entertaining in a thoughtful way. That's why I give it seven out of ten points.