Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
- Released: 2022-07-20
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Horror, Mystery
- Stars: Eddie Jemison, Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Barbie Ferreira, Brandon Perea, Donna Mills, Terry Notary, Mark Casimir Dyniewicz Jr., Jennifer Lafleur, Sophia Coto, Ryan W. Garcia, Andrew Patrick Ralston, Gloria Cole, Conor Kawalski, Lincoln Lambert, Mark Casimir Dyniewicz Jr., Evan Shafran, Keith David, Wrenn Schmidt, Devon Graye, Oz Perkins, Jacob Kim, Pierce Kang, Roman Gross, Alex Hyde-White, Hetty Chang, Liza Treyger, Courtney Stephens, Caden J. Lovgren, Malcolm Jae O'Shea
- Director: Jordan Peele
Comments
- robrohori - 30 June 2024
Good premise but dull film
Why oh why did this film last for over two hours? Probably because the director wanted to put in loads of random scenes that had no bearing on the actual plot. I've seen some critics call these scenes 'red herrings' but that is being far too generous. These scenes could, and should, have been left on the cutting room floor or saved for another film entirely.
The acting in the film was fair enough especially Daniel Kaluya who always impressed but he wasn't enough to liven this up. Most of the cgi was ok but nowadays even an advert for flip-flops has good cgi. Try getting a decent flow to the plot and stop boring the audience. I think they must have run out of cgi budget though when it came to the scenes inside the alien when it was devouring the people. I'm surprised we couldn't see the crew waving the two bedsheets around the actors while holding a desk lamp for the lighting .
Probably the best thing about the film was the horses....but then I could have got that from a bank advert. - JustMovieGeek - 14 June 2024
Fascinating message with odd choice of twist
This film like other works of the director is something that should be shown more. If humanity needs for entertainment with cost of exploiting animals or other natural resources something worth it? With use of different character backstories, their passions in their world, and the consequences they have to face really captures the meaning of line between making good entertainment and respecting the natural world.
What I didn't enjoy is the twist from a UFO really being some form of alien lifeform that just didn't make it all the better for me. If origin of alien being in space then how could such a creature survive that vacuum of space or why a round smooth flying monster be seen as a cloud standing still in camera footage. The revealing change of the creature going in some form of, idk a blooming flower felt more for flex of creative design rather than an actual biological purpose.
Honestly this film would been better if the creature didn't had an extraterrestrial design and more paranormal or cryptid design. Something more beastly monster like gill-man, Wolf man, and such. In more Earthly nature and not Arrival alien oohs and ahhs kind style.
Again I don't dislike the message but think something more Earthly understanding on history of movies and shows exploiting some Earth's animal can be something we can connect to. When show the story was made before figure out how they do it really shows with an odd idea to change typical UFO mystery to large mushroom cap monster is not good move in my opinion.
