Sauna (2008)
7/10
Midway thru the film, it goes bad on us..Big Let Down!!!!
6 April 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Comcast is going to reimburse my $6.99 for this half good, half crap movie, believe that. First of all, whoever slapped the subtitles on here has bad comprehension of our English language. Some of the stuff wasn't put in context right(if that makes any sense). Secondly, it started off w/ the right atmosphere & excellent potential, than right smack in the middle it went off in left field! I mean waaay off, and never found it's way back! I had to keep rewinding b/c I'm the type that has to understand what I'm watching to enjoy a movie. It start making no sense once they found the village midway through the film. It's like the director didn't know where to go w/ it...or was in a rush to end it. The editing was horrific towards the ending also. Example: One minute Eerik was sitting down having a sensible conversation w/ a lady, the next minute he was way over at the sauna(swamp) flipping out. How he got there or why he even went is beyond me? Than his brother (Knut) was in the village & show some men talking. The very next scene it's suddenly night with Knut standing at a doorway in a trance. Two eerie looking arms reach out & stick a tooth in his mouth. Than the 2 border soldiers they arrived with appear behind him and he turns around and tells them to save their soul, and hands them the tooth..STUPID. The scene than changes to the next day. They never really explained to us "exactly" what the building in the middle of the swamp (was), or how his brother became whatever he became, or allowed us to c what he became for that matter. At one point, the only child in the village said dude's brother isn't the same person anymore & took everyone to the swamp, but it never tells us why or what he did w/ them at the swamp. Nor did we ever see them again & only seen the back of the brother b/c the film ended 5, 10 minutes later. The ending puts the icing on the cake & really throws us off. I was like, what just happened??? The acting was powerful & really good, but man, the director blew this movie BIG TIME
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