Mosquito State

...But it was not!

Acting, direction, art concept, script (...to a certain point!) were all fine.

Then it all derailed catastrophically into nothing.

In the end, a sour taste of a fine wine that was bottled in a second hand plastic bottle found lying around...

I was lost from beginning to end. It was interesting to watch because it is very bizarre, but ultimately I didn't get any of the symbolism, I didn't understand what was happening, and by the end I didn't much care.

Mosquito State is one more film that had the potential to be good and just ended up as a big bore, even annoying.

The cinematography and visual effects, along with sound effects are stunning . A proper brooding atmosphere is created ............and then nothing much happens.

Beau Knapp is a great actor, but why was he instructed to play this role as some variation of Quasimodo ? He is the worst part of the film and also the largest part of the film. As has become the new thing in film, he seems to have been told to do everything as slowly as possible. His performance here is career ending bad, almost a caricature.

I have no idea what this film was even about. Taking place during the financial and housing bubble of 2007, there isn't much about this that turns it into horror except the millions of CGI mosquitos and a not well done grotesque make-up job on Mr. Knapp.

If you hate bugs this may give you nightmare's, but there is nothing scary about the story, if it even had a story.

If there was a social commentary in this movie, I missed it. It DID remind me a little bit of "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka but everything else was lost on me, I'm afraid. Guess I'm just not as cerebral as I thought. If you want to be aggravated and/or frustrated then you may want to watch this movie; after all, it IS pretty to look at and the music is adequately ominous and brooding, anything else it meant to say only ruffled my hair on its way over my head.

People are strange, when you're a stranger..

I liked the visual styling, but focused too much on mood and too little on why I should care. Shallow, boring.