Monsters: Dark Continent (2015)
Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to protect US interests from the Monsters, but the war is far from being won.
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Sadly Over-hyped
Good concept, poorly executed.
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Seemed to be a lot of, "Amarica kill the terrorising aliens, the aliens didn't deserve it, but when America does kill the Terororising aliens, the terrorising aliens exponentially grow in number and ferocity." One scene showed a girl who sympathised with the terrorising alien, having empathy for the little scratch the American had on his head. It felt a bit like she was saying "I know possum u have a boo boo, you poor pettle. Now let me go spend my caring on the TERRORISing aliens... poor buggers get all this emotional grief just from lumbering about like a peaceful land whale!!"
As a war movie, this could be rated much higher, but it pretends to be sci-fi/horror movie. It is not. It is a war movie with many human monsters, a few special effect monsters thrown in to pretend it is sci-fi/horror and unlikable characters (at least for me). If you want a movie about a group of young men going to war and how they react to the horrors of it, I am sure you can find other, much better movies that don't pretend to be something other than they are.
In all my years of watching movies, this is certainly the worst. It's like the writers just lost interest half way through it. 2 hours of my life I'll never get back!
Another one of those movies shown as part of Film4's 'Creature Feature' that I would probably never have rented. Having missed the first 5 minutes though I will now definitely get this on Blu Ray, to own.One thing I've come to learn though is that the ratings on IMDb are now pretty useless as any sort of guide as to whether a movie is worth watching or not. 4.3? Seriously?? What a joke! I'm a huge fan of Starship Troopers but for me movies like Monsters: Dark Continent is what science fiction is really all about. No grandstanding, no witty quotable one-liners, no A-list actors, and no endless streams of explosions or action in a desperate attempt to keep the mass of ADD watchers from getting distracted.Most importantly it explores the human condition against a futuristic imaginary backdrop. I'd describe Monsters: Dark Continent as enjoyably hypnotic providing of course that you allow yourself to enjoy it.