Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

buse_wearn First of all my mind made up too many scenarios, like family members are full of barberians who were trying to some kind of hypnotical experiments or Alicia has a serious mentall illness but later than it all became make sense (which is too long for explain) and finally get involved with it. I've just loved the ending, mix with herbal tea, 15 valium and also unknown 3 pills of course she would have a fatal heart attack! Ending was all about traditional treatments againts modern treatments. In general this movie is just not for everyone so it doesn't make it boring. Great movie with disturbing scenes.

jimbo-53-186511 Alicia (Juno Temple) arrives in Chile from the USA to visit her cousin Sara (Emily Browning) and her colourful group of friends. Tired from the long flight, Alicia's initial instinct is to get some sleep, but she's coerced by everyone else to join them straight away on their road trip. Sara jumps ship halfway along the journey to go back to Santiago to do an exam leaving Alicia with Sara's friends who are strangers to Alicia. However, Alicia isn't keen on Sara's friends which causes friction between Alicia and the rest of the group in her absence.There's nothing wrong with the concept here, but writer and director Sebastian Silva seems to lose interest very early on in attempting to flesh out Alicia's problems resulting from her sleep depravation. It might have been better if Silva would have spent more time focusing on how Alicia's sleep depravation was affecting her mind and perhaps offer more insight into her as a character. Instead he seems more content in creating a film which is mean-spirited for the most part and also puts a lot of his focus on the obnoxious and unlikeable supporting cast. Michael Cera is supposed to be the creepy, unnerving guy here, but he lacks the screen presence or the acting ability to really make this aspect work. He's nothing more than a creepy pervert (and an irritating one at that). The rest of the supporting cast fare no better with only Emily Browning managing to show a bit of gravitas with the limited screen time that she was given.The screenplay is also a complete joke and throws in many ridiculous scenarios; Sara disappearing back home to take an exam leaving Alicia with a bunch of strangers. What's even more strange is Alicia later gets a phone call from Sara saying that she knew this was going to happen (like she set her up for it), but then that thread was closed making me wonder what the point of it was? Worse still, we then see Alicia doing all kinds of things that are completely out of character which seemed to have stemmed from when she was hypnotised - OK you could say that somehow she may have become possessed following the hypnosis, but how and why? I'm all for films that leave you with things to think about, but it felt like Silva just couldn't be bothered putting any effort in and just left it for the audience to do all the work.The film ends in an open ended way which to me is always a bit of a gamble. It can work if the narrative and characters are fleshed out in such a way that it leaves you thinking about it at the end, However, the thin plot that was served up here meant that this was never going to be the case and it once again highlights the laziness of this film.Ending on a positive note, I thought that Juno Temple was excellent in her role. Accentuating vulnerability and naivety when required, but then effortlessly switching to her darker alter ego. She really was great and it is a pity that Silva gave her next to nothing to work with. Although Temple is a promising young actress and her performance makes some of this tolerable, the film as a whole is mean-spirited, obnoxious and not a particularly pleasant viewing experience.

Lasse Enemark Kastrup First of all I don't think anyone could miss the point of this movie, as much as Claudio Carvalho did, who currently got his review on the "front page" by calling it weird and boring, while rating it a 2. This movie has such a psychologically depth, you rarely find in movies nowadays. The movie will make you keep questioning who or what is behind all these terrible things that happens and how it started, all the way to the end of it, and even beyond. Did someone drug Alice? Was she haunted by evil spirits? Or was she just plain paranoid and mentally unstable? Or perhaps none of the above - or even all of the above? One of the many points of this movie, is that no matter how civilized and educated we are as humans in todays society, in worst case scenario, we will still believe in something that goes beyond our comprehension - and that there is more between heaven and earth, then we know of. I won't rate it no where near a 10, because I've seen way better, but it's definitely not a boring movie (depends what kind of genre you're into). So sure, if you just want a movie where you can sit back and laugh about it and predict how it's gonna end an half hour before it actually ends, this is definitely not the movie for you. Howeever if you like psychological thrillers - including some spiritual aspects - this is your movie. This movie is not for the narrow-minded!

kosmasp I guess with a title like this, you can be excused expecting something different. Maybe even the trailer suggest something else (haven't seen that obviously), but the movie at hand is a very weird one. It seems to go one direction and then strays away and gives us this "What the heck?" kind of movie.There is nudity in here, which I didn't expect, but it shouldn't influence your movie watching experience in a good or bad way. It's just there ... just as the things the characters do. It's also very interesting to see how the characters (humans) are light when it comes to seeing hurt animals and how they react when another human being is hurting. There is a bad behavior sort of theme running through and it's pretty clear what the "message" is supposed to be ...More than interesting experiment, if you let yourself experience it