Big Sky

I wanted so badly to like this movie. I read nothing but bad things but said, screw it people have awful taste and it sounds like a thriller. I am currently watching this movie ( about 20 min left) and I'm SO BORED I can barely stand it. 😞 I don't mind the acting, honestly it was just OK, especially with some big names. People definitely didn't understand a few of the psychological/emotional things that were creatively expressed in the movie which I especially found promising in the beginning when I saw a few of them. But still, the lack of literally any emotional or psychological "oomph" in this movie made me want to switch to another one at several points (and I definitely would have if I wasn't on a time crunch) I wanted to prove 'em wrong... This one proved them right

She never disappoints. Although this is a slow film..,it's worth watching. Don't expect much.

Big Sky offers a premise with plenty of potential, centering on a story that could have delivered gripping tension and emotional depth. While the idea itself is engaging, the film suffers from a sluggish pace that makes it harder to stay invested in the unfolding events. Some scenes felt unnecessarily drawn out, causing the suspense to lose its edge. Despite this, the narrative remains interesting enough to keep watching, and the underlying concept is solid. With a tighter pace, it could have been much more impactful.

Hazel (Bella Thorne) suffers from debilitating agoraphobia. Her mother Dee (Kyra Sedgwick) takes her to a desert treatment center. She is transported in a box inside a van along with other passengers. Suddenly, the van is attacked by sibling bandits and a girl is kidnapped. In order to save her dying mother, Hazel faces her fears to find help.

Not enough happens to make this thrilling. The characters are split up. They set up something but more needs to be done with it. It climaxes with a convoluted Mexican standoff. Much of it is unreasonable but mostly, it lacks tension or thrills.

From thequickflickcritic.blogspot.com/

I am forever a sucker for movies set in the wide open expanse of the American west. This penchant is what sucked me into seeing the low budget dramatic thriller "Big Sky".

Now admittedly I don't know what severe agoraphobia looks like. But I imagine that Bella Thorne does a pretty damn good job of depicting how this insidious psychological affliction debilitates and paralyzes those who can not bear interaction with the outside world. And Kyra Sedgwick as her less-than-model yet loving mom and the consummate acting pro is first-rate despite being rendered incapacitated early on in the proceedings. There's your propers, kids. The rest of "Big Sky" is so implausible, inexplicable or just downright impossible it loses it's way pretty quickly, never to regain any true traction.

Make it a big whiff on "Big Sky".