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Alien: Covenant (2017)
Just stop. Go make Alien 5 instead.
I'm an Alien fanboy. Loved the original stuff and I thought Prometheus was a decent film but I have to say, Ridley Scott, thanks for bring us Alien and Ellen Ripley but just stop with the rehash, bro.
Do you really need to do the whole alien deposited into space thing again? Does the protagonist need to be a female again? Why are some of these characters so dumb (not as bad as Prometheus tho)? I guess when you have a large cast of humans, you need to find a way to kill them off.
I'd recommend the book over this film. There are some subtle differences in events but I feel like you get more out of each scene with the book. It fleshes out the whys and hows a lot better.
The new aliens were cool. I like how they made references to other films. I don't know how I feel about David being the creator of the xenomorphs though but I guess you could tell it was going in that direction in Prometheus. This movie was just okay. It's better than the movie Life...come on sci-fi horror genre, bring your A game.
It Comes at Night (2017)
Slow Grind
This movie is slow. There's some suspense build up but it never gets close to the apex of a heart attack, not for me anyways.
Spoiler:
Movie starts with grandpa debilitated from a sickness and is in quarantine. Grandpa is then mercy killed and burned. So this says immediately there is some kind of infection going on. Grandson is going through some grievance over the death. He's a 17 yr old kid so reality hits hard.
The family lives in a boarded home in the woods, far outside from the hustle and bustle society. During a dinner scene, they are eating a small amount of food. So this says they are low on food, at least it hints at it.
Things happen when a stranger breaks into their home. A lot of trust issues and stranger danger. Some trading happens and offer of truce. Things start to look up but then more bad things happens. In the end everyone dies because this infection > human.
I think the movie tries to portray the kid as going through trauma over the death of his grandpa but he could also be getting sick. I believe he is trying to deny that he's sick but his dreams is saying "dude, you're sick".
That's the gist of it. Just a lot of drama between people and internal conflicts.
KL Zombi (2013)
Meh...
Not your typical zombie movie, and not a good one either. It's a mix of Shaun of the Dead / Sherlock Holmes type of zombie action comedy but it's pretty bad. Is this suppose to be a spoof? I guess so or just chalk it up to a low budget movie that shouldn't have been made.
Warning, spoiler but you're not going to watch this anyways. It's pretty obvious from the start how things will go down from start to finish, foreshadowing if you will. Byproduct of some miracle cream causes an outbreak and the miracle cream reverses the outbreak, sounds like Biohazard (resident evil). There's no consequences for anything that happens in this movie except the main character gets a girl at the end. Human to zombie back to human. no one dies even after being bitten and losing a large amount of blood and flesh. No one is affected after eating human flesh. All is good.
The acting here is quite mediocre/bad. It's hard to identify with any of these character since they are all simpletons that don't take anything serious especially the main protagonist. So the main guy is an idiot and doesn't notice people turning, much like Shaun from Shaun of the dead. It's about 1/3 of the movie until he realize the situation and he goes around trying to save his peeps, much like Shaun. He uses his hockey stick which disappears and reappears between scenes. Before he fights zombies, he stands around and does some visualization of how he will defeat his enemy, much like Robert Downey Jr in Sherlock. Got boring quick.
First act was okay. Some scenes were funny but nothing laugh out loud. Just a HAH... The build up was a little slow to the outbreak. The second act what just um..disappointing as the comedy slowly diminished to slapstick comedy and dumb choices made. The movie drags in the 3rd act which tries to be serious to wrap up.
What else... Kids easily kills zombie with giant boulder supposed they could lift and throw or take them down with their bare hands. What?!?! No...Kids in movie is already a no no. Kids with strength of a tiger? The girl was a little stiff and the boy was a goof.
The one redeeming qualities of the movie are the hot actresses and a couple of good dissing. Do not watch.