Hybrids

A short film with the status of sketch. few cliches, fight scenes, pathetic heroism, nice scenes of past as way to explain the present. something missing to give credibility to story. but the result is far to be bad and, maybe, the confuse end is the only real sin.

This short is probably intended for a portfolio, or as a proof-of-concept, hoping to find producers for a long version. Like many of its competitors, Hybrids offers good camera work, good photography and good SFX. What it does better than most is providing a full, if simple story, and spending enough time to hint at the background world.

The flaws are forgivable only thanks to the shortness of the film. For instance the monsters, apparently high-tech-using aliens, behave rather stupidly, obviously so as to be showcased in some (very well made) combat scenes. Another example is the losing-a-shoe-during-kidnapping cliché. The script has many such weaknesses, which would severely damage the overall quality of a longer story.

Hybrids is definitely a post-District 9 enterprise. With enough creativity and visual appeal, it succeeds in making me want to see more, on the condition of a more polished and mature writing.

It's a pretty ordinary revenge film. The pretty blonde daughter of the pretty blonde heroine is killed by one of these buggers. Mom decides to devote her life to erasing them. The aliens are strange stringy fellows with very large heads. They don't seem to have any imagination. It's entertaining at times, but just doesn't give us enough data.