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In Darkness (2018)
What a silly ending!
At the beginning, In Darkness plays like a good thriller centered on a blind musician who witnesses an horrible crime (with her ears) and then lives in a permanent paranoïa. Natalie acts - reasonnably - well. The director knows his jobs. Fine.
And then things begin to unravel. Deeply. The plot turns to farce. Useless violent scenes are followed by useless dialogues. Just an example: would you torture a woman in van driving on a road, after kidnapping in a crowded street? Would you do that or, first, ask to give you what you want? Non, overkill, of course. Don't you think you could have met your victim, at night, in her appartment, without risking to be arrested by the police? Oh my...
And that is far from being the sole inconsistency of this mediocre scenario.
The worst being the so called BIG FINAL TWIST (Night Shyamala get out of this picture!)
Silly. Meaningless. Laughable.
You're left exhausted and bewildered by a big big mess.
The scanrio has been co-written by Miss Dormer, and I guess she has managed to have some big melodramatic scenes, like actors competing for the Academy Awards like to play.
Well, when a melodramatic scene makes no sense whatsoever and destroys the credibility of your character, you could do better without.
Why a "5" note? Because of the photography, the level of acting and the idea at the start.
I would give a much lower note to the script alone.
The Walking Dead: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2017)
The last day of the rest of the series
The walking dead are not walking anymore, they are rolling around, headless and aimless. Who do they think we are? I mean, do the producers of this dumb... really think that we will continue to love a series when it as no purpose anymore, and no final objective? As another ex-fan has already said, this may be one of the worst episode of the history of TV. Come on! Except for its first episode, the whole seventh season was endless flashbacks and meaningless blah-blah- blahs. Heroes were uselessly humiliated, villains were dumb as... (oh yes, Negan hasn't killed Rick because he wanted to show that he was better than him? Really?). Why, oh why did you insult our intelligence this way? And after a very frustrating season where nothing really happened, we come back to the same situation as the beginning of the season. Lest the cliffhanger of the last season? Come on! Who are you trying to cheat? TWD has been, for quite some time, a very good series. But thanks to (very) bad scenarists and producers, this success is now not more than a pound of dead and rotten meat. I don't care anymore fort TWD. I have been tricked one time too much to watch this nonsense. It's over for me. RIP or rot in hell TWD, I won't shed a tear.
American Horror Story: Tricks and Treats (2012)
Horror supermarket: delicious!
What a pleasure! What a pleasure to watch a show with a plot which is so much fun! Scenarists must have been giggling like little girls as they wrote it. Imagine that: Little Riding Hood becomes Snowhite, Shock Corridor meets The Exorcist. And Doctor Moreau hires a hooker. Add just a nuance of Halloween, Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre and you have the best horrific show you can imagine. So good, in fact, that horror movies may have to find new ways to scare people in the future. AHS is the sum of it all. A no brainer punch in the belly. A real treat. This second episode of season two owes a 10. At the very least. For a little hour, you will laugh, you will frown, you will simply be perfectly entertained. What can you ask for more? This episode is a classic. Don't miss it; American TV has rarely been so good and daring. How do you spell "masterpiece"?
Monsters (2010)
Nouvelle vague for a new century
Is this film a sci-fi or horror flick? I don't think so. The real story is about two aliens, lost in their lives and our world, trying to find a way out of the mess of their existences. Am I the only one to find a striking similitude between the pairs Withney Able/Scoot McNairy and Jean Seberg/Jean-Paul Belmondo in Godard's "A bout de soufflé"? Monsters is definitely a slow film about feelings, lies, deception and love. A very sensitive road movie on this universal "mal de vivre" that plagues young adults who have not achieved their dreams. Gareth Edwards is a true genuine genius. He has written the screenplay (even though the actors had all possibilities to improvise), shot the movie with a prosumer camera like the ones you can buy in every good store, and he has done himself all the special visual effects and compositing. And his film look great from start to finish! Traveling through Mexico with a very very small crew, he has shot his scenes on a day to day basis, filming what he could film, hiring comedians - often no professionnal ones - to fulfill his needs. I have seen Monsters ten times, and each time I discover new nuances, new emotional colors. The photography is simply gorgeous, and knowing that it was done by the same person who wrote the screenplay, operate the camera and did the FX... well, it simply baffles me. I love Monsters because I can relate deeply with the two main characters. I love Monsters because it conveys very subtle feelings, helped by a beautiful score by Jon Hopkins. I love Monsters because it simply is a wonderful piece of art. Don't watch this movie expecting action, violence and creepiness. Watch with your heart, and enjoy.