Michael's Movie Grade: D-
A boring monster movie.
The last thing that a film about monsters having taken out a large percent of Earth's population should be is boring. Yet that is just what this movie is. Despite the clever idea of the monsters not being able to go over a certain height, this movie just feels like it is copying so many other monster movies. Everything here has been done a million times before and there is no new spin on any of this. Because of this the only thing this film will do is make you think of better movies you have seen. A lack of originality could be made up for if the movie was fun, suspenseful or scary but it is none of these things. The characters are incredibly bland. Even a good cast (Anothy Mackie, Morena Baccarin, Maddie Hasson) can't make these characters the slightest bit interesting. The action scenes lack any real excitement and seem to really drag on. The monsters themselves are boring and instantly forgettable. Worst of all though is that the sci-fi setting doesn't feel properly explored and simply feels like a bland copy of what we have seen in various other "end of the world" movies. There is a twist at the end that simply makes this movie even worse. The twist answers none of the questions that the story raises and in fact adds more confusing questions on top of them.
I will admit that the lighting and cinematography do give this movie a certain sense of atmosphere but that is not enough to save this mess.
You could forgive how unoriginal this film is, if it wasn't so boring at the same time.
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