Being Australian and having traveled around Adelaide and South Australia, I could really appreciate the setting of Monolith. Although it was mostly filmed indoors, the scenes outside were lovely.
The movie itself was well filmed, atmospheric, and gloomy. The story did have me completely invested. A mysterious brick that has weird effects on those who possess it. It is a mystery that slowly unwinds as the disgraced journalist played admirably by Lily Sullivan, does a podcast about this brick.
There are quite a few twists and turns with an ending that I honestly did not see coming. This is a rather bleak movie, but one of the better ones. I have said before that Australian movies do bleak and end-of-the-world films really well. Mad Max, The Cars That Ate Paris, and Dead End Drive-In, are just a few.
The only gripe I have though is with the ending, I thought it was a little too ambiguous. But that is just my opinion for what it is worth. This is a great film for those that like their movies filled not with huge explosions but with a sense of quiet creeping dread.
The movie itself was well filmed, atmospheric, and gloomy. The story did have me completely invested. A mysterious brick that has weird effects on those who possess it. It is a mystery that slowly unwinds as the disgraced journalist played admirably by Lily Sullivan, does a podcast about this brick.
There are quite a few twists and turns with an ending that I honestly did not see coming. This is a rather bleak movie, but one of the better ones. I have said before that Australian movies do bleak and end-of-the-world films really well. Mad Max, The Cars That Ate Paris, and Dead End Drive-In, are just a few.
The only gripe I have though is with the ending, I thought it was a little too ambiguous. But that is just my opinion for what it is worth. This is a great film for those that like their movies filled not with huge explosions but with a sense of quiet creeping dread.