This movie is a lot of hard work. It starts poorly, all of the characters introduced are chavs who you would hate to know in your real life.
The first act is quite a boring stretch. I just couldn't bring myself to care as every character just was kind of annoying, constantly talking or screaming. It wasn't enjoyable.
The "nice" character is the most frustrating. He's a very standard trope, the fat loser "hanger on" mate who can never get the girl. He's so incredibly irritating that I was waiting for the shoe to drop in his inevitable twist. I will praise them for only one thing, they kept it going for so long that I was convinced that it wasn't going to happen. When it finally did happen, I really wasn't sure if it was pre-planned or coincidence because it was introduced in quite an awkward way.
The big "event" that happens at about 45 minutes in is a solid enough event, but not really a twist like I feel it's meant to be. The synopsis of the movie and the general acting of the two owners ruins any idea of a twist especially since the reveal is slow paced. Especially since after the 45 minutes mark it takes nearly another 20 minutes before they finally confirm the really obvious twist.
After that the rest of the movie is just a drag. Characters walking around a dark house, sitting repeating the same points to eachother over and over again.
They try and be stylistic, as a character goes more insane the screen zooms into a cramped ratio to make you feel uncomfortable but it didn't work for me. Instead we are meant to be scared of a 90 year old woman wobbling around the place. No one makes intelligent decisions. Characters are in a house full of some type of gas that doesn't seem to effect anyone until the storyline needs it to...but during fights characters will repeatedly have their gas masks pulled off and will forget about defending themselves to put the mask back on even though the gas doesn't effect them at all. It's awful.
There is one final reveal which was decent but it was like the twist I mentioned earlier. I wasn't sure if it was deliberate or not. I also had guessed something similar would be revealed just not in that exact way.
Overall, there are too many slow elements. The reveals are generally all easy to guess even if sometimes they wait until (probably) too late in the film to finally reveal them.
Maisie Williams is the best performance by far. McCoy does a solid performance too but everyone gives a pretty good performance. It's just what they're working with isn't very engaging outside of about a 10 minutes sequence in the middle of the movie that is also somewhat ruined by some of the decisions made.
The first act is quite a boring stretch. I just couldn't bring myself to care as every character just was kind of annoying, constantly talking or screaming. It wasn't enjoyable.
The "nice" character is the most frustrating. He's a very standard trope, the fat loser "hanger on" mate who can never get the girl. He's so incredibly irritating that I was waiting for the shoe to drop in his inevitable twist. I will praise them for only one thing, they kept it going for so long that I was convinced that it wasn't going to happen. When it finally did happen, I really wasn't sure if it was pre-planned or coincidence because it was introduced in quite an awkward way.
The big "event" that happens at about 45 minutes in is a solid enough event, but not really a twist like I feel it's meant to be. The synopsis of the movie and the general acting of the two owners ruins any idea of a twist especially since the reveal is slow paced. Especially since after the 45 minutes mark it takes nearly another 20 minutes before they finally confirm the really obvious twist.
After that the rest of the movie is just a drag. Characters walking around a dark house, sitting repeating the same points to eachother over and over again.
They try and be stylistic, as a character goes more insane the screen zooms into a cramped ratio to make you feel uncomfortable but it didn't work for me. Instead we are meant to be scared of a 90 year old woman wobbling around the place. No one makes intelligent decisions. Characters are in a house full of some type of gas that doesn't seem to effect anyone until the storyline needs it to...but during fights characters will repeatedly have their gas masks pulled off and will forget about defending themselves to put the mask back on even though the gas doesn't effect them at all. It's awful.
There is one final reveal which was decent but it was like the twist I mentioned earlier. I wasn't sure if it was deliberate or not. I also had guessed something similar would be revealed just not in that exact way.
Overall, there are too many slow elements. The reveals are generally all easy to guess even if sometimes they wait until (probably) too late in the film to finally reveal them.
Maisie Williams is the best performance by far. McCoy does a solid performance too but everyone gives a pretty good performance. It's just what they're working with isn't very engaging outside of about a 10 minutes sequence in the middle of the movie that is also somewhat ruined by some of the decisions made.