Hostile (2018)

To me, this movie is perfection.

The Worst Film Ever

Just perfect...

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

I love a good post apocalyptic thriller so I was looking forward to this one. It starts really well, and then quickly becomes odd, then frustrating, then just plain eye-roll worthy. The entire movie jumps back and forward between timelines but does so in a way that feels very jarring. The entire relationship between the two leads felt unrealistic... so many plot points and character decisions just became too much of a stretch for me. I can suspend my disbelief to a certain point but c'mon guys... I really wanted to like it, it was shot beautifully, the creatures were genuinely creepy, and it had potential. Points for originality, I definitely wasn't expecting what I saw (though I did call the 'twist' about 20 minutes before it happened). The message that the writer tries to leave us with is a nice one but feels out of place in this genre and left me with too many questions.

I saw the short for this film and have been hanging out for it for a while. I had expected a survivalist horror, with lots of gnashing teeth and action. Indeed there is an element of that but what I hadn't expected, was a deeply sad love story. This is in many ways a simple film. It uses basic settings combined with a cinematic ploy I'm not fond of cutting, between past and present segments. That said, in the context of this film, it works very very effectively bringing together the final scenes in a very poignant and touching manner. I think the writers, director and actors, are to be congratulated. What has been achieved here is very different and very clever. More than that, its engaging and inherently watchable. I have to confess I had worked out what was going on about two thirds of the way through but that in no way diminished the emotion of the final scene when it arrived. A very special little film, that does remarkable things, with a limited budget. 8/10 from me.

I admit that this film's horror/sci-fi genre is not one that interests me these days and the only reason I watched this movie was because Gregory Fittoussi was in it. (He won an award for this role). Living in UK this did not come to local cinema's so I had to wait till released in streaming media. Genre has more appeal to my husband so we watched together. Juliette is trying to find food for group in post-apocalyptic American, landscape is arid and desserted. Due to the presence of mutant humaniods she has to return to base before dusk. A photo of her with a man is stuck to the visor in her vechicle. The film osocilates between Juliette's present dilemma of returning to base and her pre-apocalyptic, past relationship with Jack, a rich French art gallery owner living in New York. Watching it, I became involved with Juliette's dilemma and with her relationship with Jack, who looked passed the ugliness of Juliette's life to see the beauty within her. Without spoiling it, I just want to say the ending haunted me long after the credits had rolled. My husband also enjoyed this movie terming it 'diffierent' which in his case means 'not formulaic.' This movie deserved a wider release I hope it now finds it.

I can't tell too much, because it would spoil the movie. Hostile got two levels of storytelling, (two different timelines), one is a personal drama between a couple and the other a survival drama in a post-apocalyptic world.Both parts are well played and acted and produced but imo the "mix" does not work out at all. The editing between those switches is very unnerving and tbh I did not like the idea much. Both parts felt somehow alien to each other and did not work together (of course my opinion). Also the end, well, felt forced and somehow plain boring to me.The personal drama story-line I rate 5, the apocalyptic part also, but together I only can give a 3. The story told somehow just didn't add up to nothing, and poetry, symbolism or whatever the director wanted to create, was imo a big failure - the director should have made two movies instead this one or choose one of the story-lines to make a movie. All in all the movie will not deliver much satisfaction to a "serious" audience and the lover of post-apocalyptic movies will also be unsatisfied.Also the girl should learn to shoot or get a bazooka ;)