The Mooring (2013)

Simply A Masterpiece

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The Mooring comes across as two separate films. The first half consists of a group of giggly young girls going camping/boating. They are all in trouble due to their addiction to the electronic media: i.e shyness, accident while texting, cyber bullying, writing Amazon reviews etc. They give up the gizmo world and are assigned tasks like "write a hand written letter" or play a board game...things they have difficult doing. I really liked this aspect of the movie as the effect the electronic media has had on society still lacks data points.This was a way to build character and to eliminate cell phones before it digresses into a bad abduction story with a guy who plays violent video games and has trouble relating to people.The main problem I had was there were too many girls to get to know. It was difficult to establish all those characters. The second problem I had was that the first half of the picture was pretty darn decent as a separate film. I resented the second half as it didn't meet with my formulaic expectations: The girls learn skills and then bond and combine their skills to "Rambo" their foe. Instead the second half was a second rate human prey film.For several of the actresses, this was their first film, apparently college drama students. They did a first rate job, perhaps having lived the early roles that they played. Having said that, if you expect a horror film, expect one with more screams then horror. There is really no suspense or terror factor. Might work as a fright film for young teen girls.Parental Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity.

Apparently IMDb requires me to create a really long review. No real character development going in this flick. I could end it there but rules are rules. The movie starts out giving us some nice cinematography. For some reason the gaggle gets on a house boat. Probably someone needed to take a tax deduction on a houseboat and someone else wanted to see their boat in the movies. Not much character development going on here. We could have seen the girls starting out to be in conflict with each other and coming together to defeat the psycho and using their smarts (sans technology) but "nooooooo!" The term "narrative excess" is defined in this film. I really tried to watch this film but I couldn't. I stopped, tried again,stopped tried again, fast forwarded the film, and tried again to no avail. The cinematography was good but it could not save this film.

I watched it it stays boring but sort of picks up at the 45 minute mark. At the end of the movie i was just like ..... what was it even about? like nothing omfg im left so speechless with the 90 minutes of my life this movie just stole that i have nothing to say. There was no creativity absolutely no character growth or defining plot. When they died i did not care because there was no build up to any of the girls. The killers motivation and back story of the buck toothed hooker looking chick was not delved into. I wanted to know her motivation for what she did at the end. Im so glad i did not pay to see this movie or i would be very angry with myself. This movie is not even worth the cheap cardboard DVD box it is contained in. I rated this movie a one because unfortunately there is not a zero. I would like to add one so that this movie could get the rating it deserves. All this movie is is a turd somebody laid in the toilet that was badly in need of a flushing and was left because the one who laid it forgot about it. Avoid this movie like the plague i wish i could sue the creators for theft of my lifespan. So long 90 minutes of my life heed this warning viewers i don't want you to loose 90 minutes of your life to this pointless horribly thought out uninspiring piece of garbage. And to the girls who acted in this movie just remember some jobs are better left off of your resume.

I thought this film started off okay and i thought all of the actors were okay and i liked the idea of all of the girls going away on a camping trip with this older women.the idea of the trip was to get away from home and explore and have fun and the women who is looking after them doesn't want them to have any mobile phones with them which i thought was all rather "convenient". So lets think about this now,a group of girls are going away on a boat trip far away to camp and they aren't aloud to have any mobile phones with them.its rather dumb if you ask me. so of course if something bad happens to them they wont be able to call for help. the film was quite predictable,its one of those films where you know something bad is going to happen and you know when it will happen. The film starts off with a girl and her family out on a camping trip.her parents are putting up a tent and while they are doing this the girl is wandering around away from them and she's listening to music and she has her headphones on which again was all rather "conveniant". I really am getting tired of all these horror movie clichés. so predictably because she has her music blaring in her ears she never hears when a man comes up behind her then he puts his hand over her mouth and drags her away.the girl barely put up a fight which annoyed me,as i thought she could have done more to stop him,and quite conveniently her parents never see or hear a thing because they're too busy with their stupid tent to even realise their daughter had wandered off.she may have been a teenager but they still should have been keeping an eye on her.the man drags the girl all the way through the woods without the girl making so much as a sound which is so Dumb,and of course there is no one else around in the woods either,once again how "conviniant".we see the man drag the girl onto his boat and then the film skips to Ten years later and we are introduced to a group of girls who are all going on a camping trip as i mentioned above,the older women is like their carer so she looks after them and so forth. As i said before i thought the start of the film was okay,it had a few problems but i was able to put up with that and keep watching because i liked the idea of a group of people out on a boat travelling out to their camping ground.Now Granted i didn't know much about the characters but i was willing to let that go too because the movie seemed interesting even if it was a little slow.we started to know a bit more about the characters when they reached their camp site and they camped around a fire but after that,that's when everything goes down hill.A strange looking boat pulls up in the river right near their camp site that night. once again should i say how "conviniant".it just happened to pull up there of all places where the girls are.the couple in the boat were fooling around and making loud noises and stupidly one of the girls yelled out hey keep it down over there!.i'm guessing that was supposed to be a joke but the man on the boat obviously didn't see it that way and he yells at the girl to shut up through his loud speaker and he calls her names and of course that's when i knew the man on the boat was a psycho because who in their right mind would start yelling angrily at a girl just because she was messing around?.(its called A joke). And predictably the guy on the boat does turn out to be a psycho and there is a women on the boat with him and she was acting so weird it was obvious she was just as nutty as he was!. once again can i say predictable. we find out the couple are working together and they are killers and they start to chase the girls and they end up getting killed off one by one. i must say the man does most of the chasing predictably and his partner the weird women she seems to just be going along with the whole thing for craps and giggles.she never does anything other than follow the psycho around.I thought the story would go somewhere but it never did. the man and his weird partner spend the whole film chasing the girls around in the woods.why are they doing that you ask?.No reason its never explained. This film had potential but sadly it fell into a pile of crap! and by the end of the film i didn't care what had happened at all because there was such a lack of story and motivation of the killers. Frankly i thought the ending of the film was Lame and the surviving girl at the end of the film does not even put up a fight which made me not care about her stupid week character.whining and crying seemed to be the only things she was good at and nothing else. And at the end of the film when i found out who the weird women really was that just made me Angry.To sum things up i Didn't like this film i thought it was Boring and forgettable.skip this Film and Take A Nap instead.