Sombras da Morte

I literally had watched this movie in 2013-2014, when I was a children, it's really amazing return back in this media, because I didn't remembered many things at today, and return back watch this, it's similar watch for the first time, a good experience.

The fact that have Aliens on this movie in the France, and it's has a good CGI for 2012 actually, I didn't remembered that this movie is such good, I remember that I was gone to the video store with my dad and we get this movie in DVD Blue-ray and watched in home. I literally was a children, it's creepy return after 10 years. Trust me, it's a good experience. You will not waste your time with this.

I think the main issue here is the extremely brief running time. So much happens straight -away, and so little is explained. We don't really feel connected to our protagonist. Of course he saw his parents die as a young boy, and fast forward to the present day, where everyone is his Parisian neighborhood prepares for a comet to pass close to the earth. There's good ideas, it's well made, but so much falls off and disappears. Nice photography and use of special effects, but little to grasp. That said, the acting is fine and horror fans might find a little to separate this from the pack. A pretty, but middling doomsday chiller.

A comet heads over Paris that starts a chain of events that involves humans morphing into zombies then into Starship Trooper type bugs.

This is a French film that has been dubbed in English and you know right away because they must use the same three voice actors that do all the English dubs. The film doesn't get into what is really happening or any kind of a plot. They just concentrate on these things getting shot or beat to death and that's the film. The effects were good like a lot of melting, bubbling faces and tentacles growing out of bodies. Other than that the whole thing is just blah. There was potential there but they didn't do anything with it.

Regarding an alien invasion of France, this film is utterly dire. It has a wimpish protagonist who every chick in the film seems to have the hots for and every female character in it is either shallow, vapid or both. It gives no real explanation or backstory, but simply belts along, yet manages to be utterly devoid of tension or suspense and has stupid plot holes. Even at 70 odd minutes it still feels too long and is basically a sequence of weird occurrences and mediocre fight scenes. Also, the CGI sucks.

I don't even really have the heart to go into any more detail except to say that it's a total turkey and didn't go down well at all with the audience at the Edinburgh Dead by Dawn festival where I caught it.

2/10, a boring annoying film that doesn't seem to have a clue about what it actually wishes to say and a film to be avoided. Truly dreadful.

The usual nonsense indie, this time hailing from France and flirting with Lovecraftian themes although never really going full whack with the whole Cthulhu vibe. This one involves a typical young uninteresting bloke whose parents died at the same time a comet came close to Earth. This year the comet's back, and various people are being transformed into zombie-liked tentacled nasties. That descriptions sounds far more interesting than the film actually is, because this is a typically pitiful experience in filmmaking, with lots of languid conversations to pad out the running time rather than adding anything meaningful.