The Tribe

A disease has thinned the population to near extinction. Three sisters are left alone at a remote ranch that their survivalist father built before killing himself. The girls wait hopefully for the rains to return, then one day a young man walks out of the desert.

The three sisters are excellently portrayed and are great characters. The clashes between the eldest sisters as they question the instructions left them by their father before he deserted them are electric.

When the outsider arrives the girls appear to be low hanging (and ripe) fruit. But looks can be deceiving and various plans collide to create some considerable drama.

The female leads are excellent giving very believable performances. Cinematography is great, making the most of the rugged desert landscape.

I don't want to spoil anything, but don't expect a whole load of rainbows here.

Simple story, well crafted. I choose to ignore the very last scene (on accounts I don't understand it) but I would recommend this.

Three sisters have survived a pandemic that has devastated humanity . Living in their remote outpost their lives change when a young man looking for sanctuary turns up

With a synopsis like this I was reminded of the Don Siegel/Clint Eastwood 1971 movie THE BEGUILED . It is something of a Western that could take place in a 19th Century homestead rather than a post apocalypse scenario in the 21st Century . Unfortunately the screenplay constantly misses opportunities or more specifically can't make up its mind what it wants to be . The sexual tension created by the character dynamics is explored but quickly forgotten when the plot takes a swift turn . At this point I was expecting the very real female fear of sexual assault seen earlier in Boyle's 28 DAYS LATER to take centre stage but again this isn't really followed up

All this is a pity because it's an independent feature which is impressive from a technical point of few with the main aspect being the striking cinematography . It's a great looking low budget film but goes to prove cinema is visual storytelling and if the story isn't focused it makes for an unsatisfying film

Taste in movies often comes down to atmosphere and this one pulls it off with feelings of isolation and enough effective dialog to keep things moving. It thoroughly holds your attention and the ending is hard to predict; another mark of a good film.

My main nitpick would be that someone didn't fully clean the lens in a few panoramic scenes.

While this story and its characters could have been fleshed out more, that's true of many films in their restricted times. I don't understand the low ratings and suggest watching it for yourself.

It's like they were trying to make it bad. It's stupid but not the funny kind of stupid. Just really bad in every way. Looks like the apocalypse has plenty of lip gloss and hair care products. And also a muzzle loader that works like a repeating riffle for some reason. Just dumb. No excuse. Also I can't spoil this because it was already rotten.

For me The Tribe was one of those pick and mix movies, therefore I went in with no expectations at all.

It tells the story of three sisters who live out in the desert, it's set in a post apocalyptic world that was hit by a pandemic and they are fighting to stay alive.

A core rule they have is not to let anyone in should they appear and when they break that rule it changes everything.

With a fantastic leading lady, great setting and interesting premise The Tribe had me gripped and is anything but predictible. Trouble is the ending both makes and breaks the movie in that it is merciless, open ended and totally out of left field.

I enjoyed the Tribe but certainly wanted to have liked it more, the ending just left me with a bad taste in my mouth and I'm honestly not sure what the creators were going with there.

Well cast, interesting but flawed.

The Good:

Great leading lady

Interesting ideas

Unpredictible

The Bad:

Ending is questionable

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

I spent half the movie trying to work out if that was Melissa Benoist

Danika is one of the weirdest looking kids I've ever seen