I wasn't even going to watch this film, despite having seen it available on my usual "borrowing" sites, but several IMDB user reviews convinced me to give it a shot anyway.
The film starts off strongly and is well conceived and actualized. For about 2/3 of the run time. Casting was great (Eva Green does a wonderful job), sound tracking was very very good (not overbearing but useful enough ala "Under the Skin"), the production value (with minimal but effective CGI) is very high.
It's just that it lost me at the end. Once the full plot was revealed, it made me think that the setup was ridiculous, whereas before this point, I was pretty into it. And the last 10 minutes of the film are difficult to watch because the director begins to go way over the top in order to, I'm not even sure, scare (?) the audience and beat us into submission. I
In any case, regarding the setup, was this woman actually a Umu or a human Umu hybrid? If the former, why carry about a normal life when you could use your powers for good? IOW, why even work in that sweatshop to begin with if you could make a lot more money just "curing" people??? Also, why does a superhuman spirit creature care about taking revenge on someone from halfway around the world who was only a small part of the sequence of events leading to the need for revenge in the first place?
I'll give it 6/10 for the first 2/3 - Just don't expect a really solid ending.
The film starts off strongly and is well conceived and actualized. For about 2/3 of the run time. Casting was great (Eva Green does a wonderful job), sound tracking was very very good (not overbearing but useful enough ala "Under the Skin"), the production value (with minimal but effective CGI) is very high.
It's just that it lost me at the end. Once the full plot was revealed, it made me think that the setup was ridiculous, whereas before this point, I was pretty into it. And the last 10 minutes of the film are difficult to watch because the director begins to go way over the top in order to, I'm not even sure, scare (?) the audience and beat us into submission. I
In any case, regarding the setup, was this woman actually a Umu or a human Umu hybrid? If the former, why carry about a normal life when you could use your powers for good? IOW, why even work in that sweatshop to begin with if you could make a lot more money just "curing" people??? Also, why does a superhuman spirit creature care about taking revenge on someone from halfway around the world who was only a small part of the sequence of events leading to the need for revenge in the first place?
I'll give it 6/10 for the first 2/3 - Just don't expect a really solid ending.