The Tribe

The stupidest movie I've ever seen in my life. What a bunch of horsecrap this entire movie was. Omg.... What a waste of film. Woman are so nieve ? Is that the message of this movie ? Just idiotic !

I had the pleasure of viewing this film at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto back in June. There was much to be impressed about in this first feature. From the choice of frame to the clarity of the performances all the elements were orchestrated to draw the audience along into the inevitability of the situation without ever becoming predictable. The director utilized her (albeit limited) resources to optimum effect to create a feature that stands firmly on its feet with no apologies and which delivers a punch, the impact of which belies its modest budget. The audience left the screening replete after this slow burning thriller, visually and intellectually satisfied. I have the feeling we will be seeing a lot more from promising director Ms. Roxy Shih.

I am not sure where all the stellar reviews came from for this movie. I can only assume that many family and friends of this movie rated it. All the elements were in place to make a great movie, sadly many opportunities were missed while making this lackluster movie.

They apparently had zero technical advisers on the set. A muzzle loading rifle only shoots ONE bullet. It then requires a long and involved manual process to reload it, from the muzzle. You need to pour a measured amount of black powder into the muzzle, then ram some wadding and a bullet down the muzzle (front) of the barrel with a big stick, like the one attached to the rifle. This process takes 2-4 minutes by someone skilled in such a task.

I guess there are some magical muzzle loading rifles out there that shoot as fast as you can squeeze the trigger without the need to reload them. I am in the market for such a magical rifle to use while I am am riding my unicorn.

The genre is sci-fi so such a magical gun makes sense, I guess. I only finished watching it in the hopes it would get better as it had a good start. I did not get better. Much discipline was learned on the part of this viewer to not end this abomination early on during the viewing/waterboarding. An extra star given for the ladies fine attempt at acting. They will get better I think.

The 'Tomato' people owe me 90 minutes of my life back.

...invitation to take a nap.

I kept hoping for an interesting spin in this poorly written snoozefest of a movie...still waiting.

I say it was well acted by the young cast and can see where they made the most of the minimal cardboard dialogue.

Directing and cinematography are well done considering that nothing interesting actually happens.

Production values are decent for an indy but they should have spent some money on a rewrite of the script or chosen a better one to start with.

Minor twists on the Z for Zachariah plot line, but nowhere near as interesting as that young adult book was half a century ago.

Don't recommend wasting your time on this one...but again the young cast did well with what they had to work with, so your call.

For me The Tribe was one of those pick and mix movies, therefore I went in with no expectations at all.

It tells the story of three sisters who live out in the desert, it's set in a post apocalyptic world that was hit by a pandemic and they are fighting to stay alive.

A core rule they have is not to let anyone in should they appear and when they break that rule it changes everything.

With a fantastic leading lady, great setting and interesting premise The Tribe had me gripped and is anything but predictible. Trouble is the ending both makes and breaks the movie in that it is merciless, open ended and totally out of left field.

I enjoyed the Tribe but certainly wanted to have liked it more, the ending just left me with a bad taste in my mouth and I'm honestly not sure what the creators were going with there.

Well cast, interesting but flawed.

The Good:

Great leading lady

Interesting ideas

Unpredictible

The Bad:

Ending is questionable

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

I spent half the movie trying to work out if that was Melissa Benoist

Danika is one of the weirdest looking kids I've ever seen