nice to see the only other person to comment negatively was an Aussie.
there were so many things very wrong with this film. it had great potential, but just didn't follow through.
the film appeared to be quite clever for the most part, the rapid increase in intelligence for Alex. the people around him getting picked off by big bad beasties. it all being connected to his childhood. etc etc. but then just as we get this kind of explanation as to whats happening, it goes haywire and Alex ends up just being a nutcase.
my major problem, and the movie actually could have worked if this had been handled better, was that for the whole movie the beasts were real and separate entities from the people they were killing, but at the end he saw them as hallucinations/his friends. what the? make up your mind. and if they were hallucinations the whole time then for f***s sake, someone come up with a movie that isn't 'all-just-a-dream' or 'all-in-his-head'
how boring.
there were so many things very wrong with this film. it had great potential, but just didn't follow through.
the film appeared to be quite clever for the most part, the rapid increase in intelligence for Alex. the people around him getting picked off by big bad beasties. it all being connected to his childhood. etc etc. but then just as we get this kind of explanation as to whats happening, it goes haywire and Alex ends up just being a nutcase.
my major problem, and the movie actually could have worked if this had been handled better, was that for the whole movie the beasts were real and separate entities from the people they were killing, but at the end he saw them as hallucinations/his friends. what the? make up your mind. and if they were hallucinations the whole time then for f***s sake, someone come up with a movie that isn't 'all-just-a-dream' or 'all-in-his-head'
how boring.