O Mistério da Ilha

The early parts of 'Sweetheart' reminded me a lot of 'Castaway' and it made me appreciate 'Castaway' a lot more than I ever did before. It's extremely hard to make a movie entertaining when you have only one character and the only plot device is your character trying to survive. 'Castaway' was lucky enough to have the extremely watchable Tom Hanks in the lead role - I could watch that man paint a house and probably enjoy it. 'Sweetheart' has Kiersey Clemons, who while obviously not on the level of Hanks, did a commendable job of keeping the movie watchable and pushing it through to the next stage.

This is a very dark film. A lot of scenes take place at night and it can be quite difficult to make out exactly what is going on a lot of the time. Also the film is very short. Coming in at just 82 minutes, they obviously didn't want to push things with what can be quite a slowly paced film at times.

If you're not enjoying the beginning of 'Sweetheart' I would suggest you push through it. The film does get better as it goes along. As some more characters come into the mix and we get more of a view of the monster - a very unique monster that I quite liked the design of - things certainly become a little more enjoyable. I was a little let down by the ending. I would've liked to see a little more creativity used, but that's not a major. I enjoyed 'Sweetheart' without ever really loving it. Worth a look, but don't go in with your expectations too high.

I am sorry... but if you are going to watch a movie about an African-American girl scout or Corporal Nola Darling, against an over-sized Gill-man, you better stop the cinéphile pretense and realize you are going to watch just that, so put on your Jack Arnold hat with a feather "a la Guillermo del Toro", and leave the intelligentsia pose for latter, when you sit to watch Díaz, Martell, Brillante, Reygadas, Alonso, Encina, Tarr and the rest of the crowd.

Quite original, wet, salty, sandy and scary horror movie if you ask me, even if it loses impact and power when we finally see the fish-man, and it turns into a hand to hand match between the woman and the thing. It tries to explain everything, but it also leaves a few questions unanswered, which makes it more intriguing.

I am glad I saw it, on this umpteenth "quarantine" Sunday night.

I don't know what the budget was for this movie, probably not that much as you never really see the "monster" but the story itself is well made with the right amount of suspense to keep you interested for the entire movie. They did a good job creating a malicious ambiance. Another example that you don't really have to have a big budget to make a decent horror/thriller. The cinematography was good and the acting of Kiersey Clemons was on top for this movie. Not much other characters but in this case you don't even need them. Surprisingly better then I thought it would be, certainly worth a watch if you like a bit of suspense.

I think that most of the ratings for this movie are a little low. I found this movie interesting and it kept me wondering what might happen next. The acting was a little better than I expected, good enough to carry it along without wanting to turn it off. The only thing that irritates me is that I found myself thinking that Jenn's initial survival skills were a little lame.

I really enjoyed this but the creature design was like something out of Power Rangers or Guyver. Cheap rubber suit that wobbles and in one scene it looks like a puppet with a hand in it.

That's my only criticism. The setting was great, the acting was fine, the suspense was handled well with a good premise.

Don't rush to see it but if you've got time to kill give it a go.