I just got back from the World Premiere at the Tribeca film festival and this film was just all over the place. It starts off really good with tension between the characters as they try to connect a little. They basically start off on a journey through Afghanistan to find a person the locals consider holy and god like. They travel and travel until they reach a spot where an RPG is fired by the enemy at their direction. A small and quick fire fight leads to a death and the death of a lot of the enemy, strangely, the bodies cannot be found. I will stop with the spoilers there because that one is only minor and slightly affects the story.
Next, our characters continue to try to find this mysterious person but soon, one by one, they discover something that should have never been found.
The film did get a few jumps that I saw especially in this scene where during night time they are watching headlines on a road, suddenly, they split up and fly into the night sky. Fricken weird.
At around the half way point, the film started to get worse and worse. The dialog sounded bad and forced like they weren't even trying. I know, working on a schedule of 24 days is tough but they should have practiced more.
Next, the film keeps transitioning from night time to day time, like, every scene which is really annoying after the 10th time.
Next, there are so many fricken plot holes that I just can't list them all. They leave out very important parts of the 1 hour and 30 minute film that really could've helped.
It was slow. Plain and simple. The last half made the movie feel like it was a 2 hour film when it was only 1 hour and 30 minutes. It took its time which made it kinda worse.
The gore is very minimal BTW. Only one really bad scene showed in the trailer.
The enemy is -well- not scary. Not at all. Kinda weird more so. The don't explain its origins. They don't explain why it doing what it is. It does does what he wants.
The characters are literally the dumbest characters I have ever seen with times where they would miss crucial moments or just not care. Like in a fight scene we see two guys fighting. Then a shot of a character looking on, not doing anything. Then fighting again and that guy is breaking the fight up. And there is a huge part in the end that is really big that made me say "You should have looked!!" Finally, the huge problem. The ending. The director didn't know how to end this film. He even said it himself after it was over. It was strange, confusing, and so messed up that I left the theater with a big "WTF just happened?!" look.
Also, the trailer shows just about every good part of the movie so don't be surprised when you think you should be.
I have it a 5 because it had some good parts (beginning) but a lot of somewhat bad parts too
Next, our characters continue to try to find this mysterious person but soon, one by one, they discover something that should have never been found.
The film did get a few jumps that I saw especially in this scene where during night time they are watching headlines on a road, suddenly, they split up and fly into the night sky. Fricken weird.
At around the half way point, the film started to get worse and worse. The dialog sounded bad and forced like they weren't even trying. I know, working on a schedule of 24 days is tough but they should have practiced more.
Next, the film keeps transitioning from night time to day time, like, every scene which is really annoying after the 10th time.
Next, there are so many fricken plot holes that I just can't list them all. They leave out very important parts of the 1 hour and 30 minute film that really could've helped.
It was slow. Plain and simple. The last half made the movie feel like it was a 2 hour film when it was only 1 hour and 30 minutes. It took its time which made it kinda worse.
The gore is very minimal BTW. Only one really bad scene showed in the trailer.
The enemy is -well- not scary. Not at all. Kinda weird more so. The don't explain its origins. They don't explain why it doing what it is. It does does what he wants.
The characters are literally the dumbest characters I have ever seen with times where they would miss crucial moments or just not care. Like in a fight scene we see two guys fighting. Then a shot of a character looking on, not doing anything. Then fighting again and that guy is breaking the fight up. And there is a huge part in the end that is really big that made me say "You should have looked!!" Finally, the huge problem. The ending. The director didn't know how to end this film. He even said it himself after it was over. It was strange, confusing, and so messed up that I left the theater with a big "WTF just happened?!" look.
Also, the trailer shows just about every good part of the movie so don't be surprised when you think you should be.
I have it a 5 because it had some good parts (beginning) but a lot of somewhat bad parts too