Hard movie to watch. It's well made and the acting is the real reason anyone should check it out, but it's quite the downer. I'm usually fine with darker subject matter, but this was two hours of "damn, that's sad."
Bill Skarsgård is credited first, but it's really Tom Holland's movie. Robert Pattinson, Sebastian Stan, Jason Clarke, and Riley Keough all had prominent roles in the film, and they all succeeded in making you hate humanity just a little more than you already do. Holland's character is what we think we would be doing if we were caught in the middle of all that.
I gotta give it to Skarsgård, though, because he acted his ass off and made us feel all kinds of not-so-good things whenever he was on screen. For Holland, who also was excellent, I think it was a definite choice to take on a role so counter to his Peter Parker stuff.
Antonio Campos, who I've never heard of, directed the film. Again, just because I didn't really enjoy it all that much doesn't mean it wasn't a good movie. He apparently likes the intense assignments, having directed episodes from The Sinner and The Punisher, as well as supposedly in talks to direct a prequel of The Omen.
Bill Skarsgård is credited first, but it's really Tom Holland's movie. Robert Pattinson, Sebastian Stan, Jason Clarke, and Riley Keough all had prominent roles in the film, and they all succeeded in making you hate humanity just a little more than you already do. Holland's character is what we think we would be doing if we were caught in the middle of all that.
I gotta give it to Skarsgård, though, because he acted his ass off and made us feel all kinds of not-so-good things whenever he was on screen. For Holland, who also was excellent, I think it was a definite choice to take on a role so counter to his Peter Parker stuff.
Antonio Campos, who I've never heard of, directed the film. Again, just because I didn't really enjoy it all that much doesn't mean it wasn't a good movie. He apparently likes the intense assignments, having directed episodes from The Sinner and The Punisher, as well as supposedly in talks to direct a prequel of The Omen.