The Bad:
I'm not sure this is really a "bad" but the movie just wasn't a horror movie to me. It was, undoubtedly, a well crafted suspense flick - but just not really horror. It was like they took a great science based suspense story and tried to "horror it up" with some mystical mumbo jumbo. To some extent I think this weakened what could have been an incredibly powerful film.
There were some really "unbelievable" survival sequences - you know the ones, they're in almost every movie. That always really bugs me.
There is a character in this movie who should have died - yet, in the "epilogue" sequence at the end - there he is, going about his business as though nothing happened.
The ending was kind of "okay - but what did all of this mean". There really was no sense of closure or feeling really as though most of the rest of the movie had been adequately explained. I guess after the brilliance of the rest of the movie I just expected - more - from the ending.
All in all:
Definitely worth a see - but don't go into it expecting typical horror because you will be disappointed. Even the gore (it's a gross anatomy lab for most of the movie) isn't very "gory".
I'm not sure this is really a "bad" but the movie just wasn't a horror movie to me. It was, undoubtedly, a well crafted suspense flick - but just not really horror. It was like they took a great science based suspense story and tried to "horror it up" with some mystical mumbo jumbo. To some extent I think this weakened what could have been an incredibly powerful film.
There were some really "unbelievable" survival sequences - you know the ones, they're in almost every movie. That always really bugs me.
There is a character in this movie who should have died - yet, in the "epilogue" sequence at the end - there he is, going about his business as though nothing happened.
The ending was kind of "okay - but what did all of this mean". There really was no sense of closure or feeling really as though most of the rest of the movie had been adequately explained. I guess after the brilliance of the rest of the movie I just expected - more - from the ending.
All in all:
Definitely worth a see - but don't go into it expecting typical horror because you will be disappointed. Even the gore (it's a gross anatomy lab for most of the movie) isn't very "gory".
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