The Monster (2016)

Really Surprised!

Nice effects though.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Extremadamente larga. Con escenas innecesarias y muy aburridas. Pretenciosamente intelectual

The story is so generic that it's unbelievable. The mother hits a dog or a "wolf" and her car doesn't work anymore because of that hit. The dead animal is missing.Hmm, I guess the monster took the corpse in the middle of the road and the mother and daughter didn't notice it.When the tow truck guy is outside and the monster is approaching him, the mother and daughter shout at him to turn around yet their windows are closed.How the fvck do you expect him to hear you shouting inside the car when your windows are closed? And why was the monster dragging his body from underneath the car when the monster is a size of a black bear? When the ambulance finally arrives (of course the two people from the ambulance are going to die since those two characters aren't important at all), the monster throws the guy's body at the windshield.Seriously, what is up with the monster throwing people's body and pieces at windshields? It's not scaring anyone.When the mother drives the ambulance and makes the audience think they're finally safe, the monster (for some odd reason) catches up to the ambulance and rams its head to the side of the ambulance and the retard mother starts losing control of the steering wheel.Are you fvcking kidding me? There's no way in Hell that monster was strong enough to move a truck just by ramming its head on it.The film keeps showing us flashbacks so we can know more about the relationship between the mother, daughter, and the dad (sort of). Am I supposed to care about their background story? The two main characters don't interest me at all.I find it hilarious how the monster runs away whenever someone flashes a flashlight at its face.The little girl kills the monster just by using a lighter and a spray and use them as a flamethrower. That's it? How creative.This movie is so fvcking stupid. The story is so simple that a little kid can easily come up with it.

I respect where Bryan Bertino was trying to go with this film, but he falls short. While he does gets a decent start on character development that mostly works despite some overwrought writing and acting, the static set piece and drawn out end battle bleed away any real tension. Flashbacks are overused and ultimately come too late and the well shot and creepy final locations overstay their welcome. Few films are able to pull off this Babadook-esque having your cake and eating it too morality monster mash, and despite a good college try, the Monster fails along with all the others.

You really just want to punch these characters in the face more and more as the film progresses. With every new instance of whining, cursing and pointless bickering, you feel the anger and frustration swell inside you. I wanted the monster to eat them and get it over with. I have never seen characters that annoyed me so much and made me hate them. And it took less than 30 minutes for that to happen. It's amazing. Add to that the poorly written dialogue and plot, and you get one difficult movie to endure. Forget the terror coming from the threat the monster poses. The real terror is waiting for the characters' mouths to open, as one anticipates the crap that is about to come out. The characters are so poorly written that they are not even consistent in their annoying behaviour. Oh no. The scared girl who five minutes earlier wouldn't even leave the car suddenly enters the woods for no reason. Then she sees something scary, but still doesn't run back to the car, and instead calls to her mother who (as everyone in the audience knows by now) has no intention of paying attention to her. See, if we know she is not going to answer, but the girl (who, as the first act of the film has established, knows how deranged her mother is better than anyone in the world) acts as though she doesn't, that makes the audience angry and frustrated. Unfortunately, almost every round of dialogue between characters and every action they undertake is at best questionable, if not outright nonsensical. I was screaming by the time the monster made its appearance, but not from terror; I was screaming at the characters, hoping they would die.