The Nest (I) (2020)
2/10
This might appeal to a small few but read this for an idea of what you're getting into...don't say you weren't warned!
8 June 2021
I rarely give 2 stars but this movie was painful. There is pretty much no dialog in the first 20 minutes as you just watch snippets of the family wake, eat, work, play, and then out of the blue, the dad says their moving to London (I promise I'm not exaggerating). When they get to London the family's dysfunction starts to emerge but, even though hardly anything really happens, there are so many plot holes, and paths that lead no where that it's just confusing...you keep waiting for something to happen. For a moment it seems to hint at a possible haunted house scenario with a locked door that inexplicably opens but that's it, nothing becomes of it and nothing else weird happens, so I question, what was the point? The movie is excruciatingly slow and dark and moody, just watching characters drive, work, stand, fight, smoke, and very little dialog throughout. Although the acting is decent, the characters are extremely unlikable so you don't even care what happens to them, nor can you relate to them. Scenes get thrown in with no explanation or follow through (the horse, the mother) which makes for many unanswered questions, and then it has an incomplete and abrupt ending. If you are able to finish the film you'll probably know the moral the writer/director is trying to convey, but most people won't enjoy the way he chose to illustrate it. This one is a hard pass IMHO!
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