This found footage movie is one that has a ton of potential and during the usual boring BS parts where we get to know the characters, sets up a lot of potentially interesting things. And then it does fuck all with it. Absolutely nothing with it, which I can deal with. I was happy to not see the typical dysfunctional found footage characters arguing a ton. But then not only does it do nothing with everything they set up, they do nothing. Period. Nothing. With an ending that lands like a wet fart that my theater laughed at.
Spoilers tagged below.
This film decides to make an incomprehensible mess of itself that you can vaguely follow, but none of it is interesting. The fatal flaw here is that none of it is good, interesting, and any time they are about to show something interesting they cut to some nonsense like our main character looking at his feet or something. But this repeats on a loop. You're freaked out the first night when shit is going insane and there's blood everywhere and people are screaming. You're less freaked out three nights later when our protagonist is looking at stoic bloody people again.
Dead ass they just loop the same bullshit over and over and add nothing new or interesting. The new things they DO add are so out of place and nonsensical that it just doesn't add anything either. And it's not good. You have nothing to invest in these characters from the moment shit goes down because any characterization or any potential story parts do not matter. Can you believe that the opening phone call we get is the scariest part of the movie? Because they never show you what happens DURING that call. Instead we just have to kind of wonder about what's going on in this time splitting multiversal bullshit that avoids that entirely.
And the ending, my god the ending. The theater laughed uproariously at what I'm sure what supposed to be grotesque and terrifying when our lead randomly cuts off his penis and then goes stumbling in the desert with his intestines hanging out. My girlfriend equated a lot of this to birth and relationships to mothers and I probably agree with that interpretation, but fuck me if it says anything interesting about it. I don't know how you make a movie where all the interesting stuff cuts away. It's absolutely crazy. No idea what they were thinking.
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