Outpost 11

Having just watched this film and still digesting it I can say that the acting is great in the film and the idea is actually a good one. The thing that made me quite angry with the film is that it is just plain stupid as in it got to the end and the plot of the film made no sense to me whatsoever.

If this film was made to be all about the screenplay and very little to do with the plot then it is is worth probably more than 5 stars, however as i suspect that there is meant to be some great innuendo behind this film which i cannot for the life of me fathom without being in the writers head then this film deserves a 1 star.

I am actually a little angry still that i spent an hour and a half watching this but at the same time can appreciate the way it was made...

I don't know anyone that i could recommend this film to personally who wouldn't turn round to me after watching it and call me something not very nice but being a weirdo myself i guess i can empathize with the weirdness of the film?!

One has to wonder if this is simply a British way of descending into madness, as it certainly is a strange movie. "Albert, you must re-hydrate the Omega Core. Oh no, not that!" Graham gets a phone call, and asks who is it and then says 'it can't be, spiders don't use phones." Mason hunts, shots at things and they explode. A frozen man is out in the snow, his head cleaved in half. Is it real, or the result of a psychotropic chemical? It is not a horror movie, but three men in an isolated cold and wilderness outpost, monitoring radio transmissions of the enemy, but really only hearing static. One could say they went bonkers. In many ways it is both boring and intriguing.

This is a nice little slab of weirdness. Not the best acting, although not bad either. Odd storyline. Fairly low budget. But there are some interesting ideas, and I love the aesthetics of it. A challenging mix of sci-fi, classic war film, horror and psychological drama. No, not great, but it kept my interest until the end and I was glad to have seen it.

We looked at each other when it was finished & said, "Did that even make sense to you?" The reply was "no." The very last scene rewinds to a scene earlier in the film, but that even made no sense in the grand scheme of it all.

The best parts about it were:

One of the characters is very, very creepy. Luckily, I'm pretty sure he was meant to be. But I'm not sure if, in the 50's, there was really stuff you could inhale while you uh.....had your guy "me time". But what do I know about that sort of stuff. Anyway, it was a bit weird.

Other good aspect was it was a bit steampunk, which I like.

The acting wasn't bad.

After watching a lot of random movies by following others, we have decided that any blurb stating "in a remote, isolated........." means "there are 4 of us who decided to make a movie ourselves with no budget on a swatch of land owned by someone someone knows, because someone has access to some film kit"

Spiders, sorta'. Amyl nitrate or something like it. Masturbation'. Exploding rabbit. Splitting headache. "James has eaten his own hand." "What new madness is this?" "No you're not. Spiders can't use the phone."

And that, my friends, is my review. Personally I think it's worth watching at least once, twice if you've got mind-altering substances.