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Intinction (2022)
Cannibal nuns can't save everything.
Ouch. Still worth watching, but rough even for an indie film. It trades on the concepts alone, doesn't back much of it up with technique. The acting really isn't very good, and the dialogue doesn't help much. Film editing and cinematography show some creativity, Sound editing is stylized but doesn't really create a believable soundscape. Music is good. Concepts are great, makeup for the nuns good, set dressing and props decent. Really doesn't hit on any level, until the very last scene, and the end credits. Stay through the credits. A few sparkling moments with the nuns themselves, the last scene and the credits are enjoyable enough to make it worth watching such a short film.
Atlantic Rim (2013)
You Can Enjoy It...
Not really spoilery, but vaguely mentions things that happen.
So, the other reviews are right. The direction is bad. The acting is wooden. The dialog needed work. The lighting isn't subtle. Interior SCI Fi sets don't match exteriors. Settings and scenes and plot aren't logical. The music is meh. Makeup artists were possibly non- existent. New York City mostly looks like someplace in California (or maybe Florida).
But you kind of expect that. I mean, it's a knock-off, low budget, Fi-Sci interpretation of somebody else's idea. What's amazing is picking out things that they did BETTER than Hollywood. Like the headsets the guys on the oil rig are wearing. Although for movie shooting, the lady's mic should have been lower, it was a smart way for them to get along without boom mic operators AND it's something real people would need to wear. The conference between the admiral and the others after the oil rig disappears? That could really happen, and if it did, it would happen with iPads on a desk instead of stupid holographic displays. (Although who buys magenta light bulbs for their office, you must tell me!) And by putting two women in their really-way-too-big submarine interior, they passed Bechdel in the first set of scenes, without really even trying. The cast looks like a group of real people rather than modeling school rejects, and the effects were MUCH better than I had any reason to expect.
Don't expect too much, look for the craft, and mentally write teleport platforms just offscreen in about half the scenes, and you should have no trouble enjoying this.