Thursday, May 31, 2018

Hostiles (2017)

Also Known As: Feinde
Year of first release: 2017
Director: Scott Cooper
Actors: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi
Country: USA
Genre: Western, Drama
Conditions of visioning: 28.05.2018, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English/Cheyenne version with German subtitles
Synopsis: In 1892, after nearly two decades of fighting the Cheyenne, the Apache, and the Comanche natives, the United States Cavalry Captain and war hero, Joseph Blocker (Bale), is ordered to escort the Cheyenne chief, Yellow Hawk (Studi) to his ancestral home in Montana's Valley of the Bears. Confronted to the dilemma between his warrior anger and the progressist political order, Jo and his team travel through the West and meet different type of hostility. When the widowed settler, Rosalie Quaid (Pike), is taken in by the band of soldiers, Cheyenne and WASPs experience also compassion to the suffering of each other.
Review: After the first scenes and encounter with each character, the rest of the movie is quite predictable and indeed, no surprise is coming. SPOILER The bad Comanches will die, Captain Jo and Rosalie Quaid will get closer, the old Cheyenne will end on his land. The first scene is quite harsch and has is counterpart at the very end. The good thing in the story is the acceptance that both sides have hate, show hostility but can also show empathy and compassion. Only some Comanches and white cowboys are presented as absolutely bad and devil.
The character of Jo is quit interesting because he is the one confronted to the dilemma and we feel it from his acting. Rosamund Pike's character almost only screams and whines. If this was intentional probably to show the women as weak and desperate. The very early death of the Frenchie acted by Thimothée Chalamet is almost funny as it exaggerates the darwinian vision of the wild west. The first to die is the weak. 
The movie has good intentions but lacks of originality. Really for Western fans.
Rating: 5 /10

Turbo kid (2015)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2015
Director: François Simard, Anouk Whissell
Actors: Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside, Edwin Wright, Aaron Jeffery
Country: CDN, NZ, USA
Genre: Action, Adventure
Conditions of visioning: 20.05.2018, Streaming, French version
Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic future, the Kid (Chambers) survives alone and hidden in a room with comic books and gadgets. A girl named Apple (Leboeuf) imposes herself as his friend. When she gets kidnapped, the Kid armed with an ancient turbocharged weapon starts a quest against Zeus (Ironside), the sadistic and self-proclaimed leader of the Wasteland.
Review: Following the experience of one Godzilla I continued to look for some rare movies on youtube and found Turbo Kid. The story is as basic as Mad Max. Rescue the girl from the bad guy who has something to do with the heroe's tragedy. The originality lies on the creativity for the scenery, the costumes. Reminding me the Filipino movies such as Resiklo and a range of Filipino cheap movies.
The main villain Zeus is supported by a greatly designed villain, Skeletron (Wright). The Kid and Apple are supported by the Solo-looking Frederic (Jeffery). The constellation of characters has some parallel with Star Wars. Zeus/Emperor and Skeletron/Darth Vador for the dark side of the force. The Kid/Luke and Frederic/Han Solo for the other. 
The effects are indeed cheap, but compensated by the camera movement and the cut, so that the BMX bikes look seldom ridiculous. And that is good because the remaining scenes have gore or 80s touch. Globally I found the the effects cheap but clever implemented and giving not only the nostalgy of the 80s but also a funny effect.
For the fans and the curious, you can also watch the original short called T is for Turbo here
Rating: 6 /10

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

The rider (2017)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2017
Director: Chloé Zhao
Actors: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Lane Scott
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
Conditions of visioning: 14.05.2018, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English without subtitle
Synopsis: Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), a rodeo bronc rider with some renown, learned everything he knows about horses and riding from his parents, Wayne (Tim Jandreau) and the now deceased Mari Blackburn. Brady is recovering from a fall off a bronking horse in a rodeo, the most serious of the injuries being a skull fracture which required a metal plate being inserted into his head. Including checking himself out of the hospital earlier than advised, Brady is determined to get back up onto horse as quickly as possible. Being a cowboy is all he knows. But deep in his heart he knows that returning to the rodeo in particular is something that is probably not in the cards without increased risks.
Review: Being shot within the cowboy community in South Dakota one could almost consider this movie as a Western. The story is nevertheless rather a personal drama about the ability to accept a defeat. In this case defeat against fatality. Brady struggles for life, for his dream of rodeo. His dilemma is visualised via the contact with horses, with his family, with his friends, with the wild and wide nature that look like a reflection of himself. 
The acting is amazing of authenticity. The non-verbal communication within the family is so genuine. There is no need of much dialogue to understand what is happening and how the characters are feeling. The competences shown by Brady with the horses must be also natural, and if not Brady Jandreau would be an amazing actor and learning machine. 
The photography is very meticulous so that both characters and horses are depicted with moving portraits rather than movie pictures. Having characters and horses portraited with the same visuals almost humanises the horses. Even the credits valorise the horses at the same level as the humans. This match perfectly with the relationship between the cowboys and their horses as presented in this movie. One can be for or against it, but artistically it is very well done.
Rating: 7 /10

Designated Survivor - Season 2 (2017)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2017
Creator: David Guggenheim
Actors: Kiefer Sutherland (Flatliners, 24 TV-series), Natascha McElhone (The Truman Show), Adan Canto (Narcos TV-series), Italia Ricci (Supergirl TV-series), Maggie Q (Naked Weapon), Kal Penn (Superman Returns)
Country: USA
Genre: Polar, Thriller
Conditions of visioning: September 2017 - May 2018
Synopsis: One year after being appointed President of the USA, Tom Kirkman (Sutherland) still tries to be the best man possible in both family and politics.
Review: As it was easy to start watching the first season of this series, it was easy to continue. The episodes are still easy to follow and digest, don't require much brain power and easily put you to sleep. I sleep much better after watching Designated Survivor than the depressing Black Mirror for sure! But is that a valid quality criterion for a series? I don't think so.
The series doesn't seem to really know where it is going on the long-term, but rather quickly reacts to include current political events in some episodes. Unfortunately it does it in a not very subtle way (the government shut-down, medical care...) or by introducing fake countries obviously inspired by real ones: the ridiculous East/West HanChu copied on North/South Korea, the state of Kunami behaving like several Arabic countries, and those are not even the only examples.
The terrorist threat is now in the background and re-appears when convenient, while the series still offers his lot of discussions about who is the most faithful to Kirkman, who betrays him, and every episode has virtually the same structure that concludes on how a great guy he is. That is heart-warming for a while but quickly feels repetitive.
Add to that a mid-season twist motivated by an actor leaving the show, some romance, and some more trials-and-error by a series still trying to find its pace after two seasons and trying to give something to everybody (family, technology, future, past, global warming, politics, spies, action, romance, good intentions, rivalry...), and you will understand that I was not thrilled by it. This lack of direction is clearly my main criticism to the series.
As in the first season, product placement is still very present and culminates when Hanna hands over her wireless headpiece while saying "here is my Bluetooth" (who says that?!?) in a shot perfectly framed around a Range Rover logo. Somebody must have been proud of this double combo...
On the positive side I liked seeing in small roles 80''s actors like Bonnie Bedelia (Die Hard) and more importantly Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future) playing fantastically a lawyer. The audience seems to have liked him as well as it looks like he has been peppered in all the sub-sequent episodes, in the apparent usual manner of the series to quickly adapt to ratings and current events.
I just found out that the series will not be renewed for a third season (not a surprise to me) except if saved by an online distributor like Hulu or Netflix.
Rating: 3 /10

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 5 (2018)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2018
Creators: Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly)
Actors: Clark Gregg (Iron Man 1-3, The Avengers), Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons
Country: USA
Genre: Action, SF
Conditions of visioning: March - May 2018, VOD, 32" TV screen & 10" tablet
Synopsis: The team led by Phil Coulson (Gregg) doesn't get a break. Barely recovering from their latest success, they awake apparently in space, and first have to understand why they are here before doing something about it. Many more challenges await them.
Review: They did it again. After three seasons establishing the characters and the tone while still evolving very fast and increasing the scope and stakes, and a fourth season managing to pack two original storylines, this fifth goes again in a totally different direction, raises the stakes one notch to give our favorite team a challenge at the level of what the Avengers usually deal with, and does so with again a two-part adventure that make you feel like you watched two seasons in one.
I love how the characters fully embrace the new challenges, well summarized when Mack says: "We’re in space. It’s the one thing we haven’t done yet". Well he is about to get even more surprised. This one line invites you to accept a Universe that could seem outrageously exaggerated but that is in fact in line with the escalation in the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, to the point that series makes references to the contemporary events of Avengers: Infinity War in its last three episodes.
The special effects in the first half of the season are as good as always, and I was even impressed by some beautifully made landscape scenes with well-inserted effects. And the opening title is changing and nice as usual. The series gets a bit lazy in its second half, sticks more to indoors and the effects in the last two episodes look a bit cheap in spite of their grand scope.
Enemies change in the course of the season (nice to see Florence Faivre from The Expanse, a nice series that I unfortunately learned had been cancelled) and characters evolve in unexpected directions, a characteristic trait for the series.
However, I started to be less excited by the series in the last ten episodes, but I don't know if that is due to the format (I am not used to watch series episode per episode, I usually binge-watch whole seasons) or to a real need for renewal...
This fifth season was produced quickly after the fourth, but the sixth will not air before June 2019, both constrains allowing for the series to pause before the events of Avengers: Infinity War and resume after Avengers 4 is released.
Rating: 6 /10

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2009
Director: Guy Ritchie (Snatch, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
Actors: Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man 1-3, Avengers 1-4), Jude Law (A.I., eXistenZ), Rachel McAdams (The Time Traveler's Wife, Midnight in Paris), Mark Strong (Kingsman 1-2)
Country: USA, D
Genre: Action, Comedy
Conditions of visioning: 17.05.2018, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes (Downey) is bored to death when not challenged by apparently unsolvable cases. In the waiting time he torments his former partner soon-to-be-wed Watson (Law), until an old case with mysterious implications re-opens.
Review: I complained about the 2011 sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and now that Netflix proposes this first movie as well, I could watch it again and remember that it is even worse. I dislike in particular the fact that Holmes uses his deductive genius to be better at ... street fighting, a choice obviously necessary to orient the franchise towards fast-paced action rather than mysterious crime-solving polar.
I really didn't like this direction, and also found the editing too hacked (well, Guy Ritchie...) and the music too present. Moreover as the intend was not to show an origins story (for example the meeting between Holmes and Watson), we dive directly into their live at the point when they split, and no time is really given to get to know them, no more than to know Irene Adler for example.
All of this made me come to miss the good old Hammer Sherlock Holmes like The Hound of the Baskervilles, and I dream that this poor American version awoke some proud British story-tellers that decided to take back their own national hero and show it in the much better TV version Sherlock the following year. Everything is so much better done in the series: actors, adaptation, stories, characters, villains, ... and to the comment I read that the movie is good in that it shows Sherlock in its original timeline (inlike the one of the series), I would invite to watch the episode 0 of the season 4: The Abominable Bride.
A conclusion to the trilogy is sadly announced for 2020.
Rating: 2 /10

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2001
Director: Ron Howard (Apollo 13, The Da Vinci Code, EdTV)
Actors: Russell Crowe (Noah, Gladiator), Ed Harris (The Truman Show, A History of Violence), Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream)
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
Conditions of visioning: 14.05.2018, VOD, 32" TV screen.
Synopsis: John Nash (Crowe) is a brilliant but asocial mathematician starting his studies. His life will change when he meets Alicia (Connelly) and starts his dream-job.
Review: I hadn't seen this movie in maybe 15 years, and had forgotten how good it was. It belongs to this category of movies about cursed geniuses like The Theory of Everything that I have recently seen, or Good Will Hunting that I think I never have.
It is based on a the true story of the real John Nash and even if the events have been tweaked for better cinematographic impact, I found that it is a very poignant story and that Russell Crowe, at the height of his career just after Gladiator, delivers a fantastic performance. He is in tandem with Jennifer Connelly, more beautiful than ever, as they will again be in the 2014 Noah. And more good actors complete the cast like Ed Harris, Christopher Plummer and Paul Bettany that took me a few minutes to replace as the voice of Jarvis and then Vision in Marvel movies like Avengers: Infinity War.
I also found the story to be well built, with a twist at mid-movie that makes you wonder what is there left to tell, then be surprised by the resolve of the main couple in front of the difficulties they are facing, and touched by the ending.
Definitely a great movie.
Rating: 8 /10

Monday, May 21, 2018

The bookshop (2017)

Also Known As: -Der Buchladen der Florence Green
Year of first release: 2017
Director: Isabelle Coixet
Actors: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, James Lance
Country: E, GB, D
Genre: Drama
Conditions of visioning: 07.05.2018, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview,
Synopsis: Florence Green (Mortimer) is a free spirited widow and opens a bookshop - the first such shop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough, England in 1959. Resisting to plans of the local establishment embodied by Mrs Gamart (Clarkson) and the considerable local apathy of the town she struggles to establish herself. She proposes the modern literature including Nabokov's scandalizing "Lolita" and Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" to the narrow minded local townsfolk. And it works. She finds her first customer and soon best ally in the figure of Mr Brundish (Nighy) who is himself sick of the town's stale atmosphere.
Review: The plot has potential to enhance conflicts and to stage duel on words between the three main characters. The only duels we see are with James Lance. The rythm is very slow and basically the two characters in favour of the bookshop, Florence Green and Mr Brundish do not undertake any action to defend it against Mrs Gamart, which motivation is never explained. 
I have no clue about the objective of Isabelle Coixet with this movie.
Rating: 2 /10

7 days in Entebbe (2018)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2018
Director: José Padilha
Actors: Daniel Brühl, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan, Lior Ashkenazi
Country: USA, GB
Genre: Drama, War
Conditions of visioning: 23.04.2018, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English/German/Hebrew/French version with German subtitle
Synopsis: In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The group of terrorist is supported by two German idealists, Wilfried Böse (Brühl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (Pike). The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After some debate between Yitzhak Rabin (Ashkenazi) and Shimon Peres (Marsan), the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages.
Review: The story focusses on the one hand on the reaction of two German left extremists. And treats all the Palestinians and Ugandans as Stormtroopers who cannot think much and almost do not exist. On the other hand the movie shows the apparent conflicts within the Israeli government in particular between the rather peaceful Rabin and the warrior Peres. From there on, it was hard to watch this movie seriously as no-propaganda. 
José Padilha makes an action movie, genre that he mastered with Tropa de elite in 2007. There is a kind of tension and doubts on the German side. There is a will of revenge à la Tom Clancy on the Israeli side. This brings the expected climax with the successful attack of the Entebbe airport. While Tropa de elite presented realistic doubts in the personality of the policeman as symbol of the justice, the Israeli have no doubt, except the dancer wife of one of the squad members. 
I am quite disappointed from the movie. Such good actors, such a conflictual topic, and a very biased script.
Rating: 2 /10

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Hellraiser (1987)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 1987
Director: Clive Barker
Actors: Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Andrew Robinson
Country: GB
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Conditions of visioning: 13.05.2018, Cinema am Ostertor, English
Synopsis: Larry (Robinson) and wife Julia (Higgins) move into an old house. She discovers a hideous creature in the loft who pretend to be Larry's half-brother, Frank, who is also Julia's former lover. Having lost his earthly body to a group of demons, the Cenobites, he had been brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. Frank forces Julia to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to recover fully his body.
Review: If you feel bored by the kind of horror movies Hollywood spit out every year, you want something really original and really thrilling, watch this! And stop reading so that you will get the full surprise. 
The story does not sound original but step by step you discover what each character is capable of, to get one's goal. There is a lot of manipulation, of lies, of abuse of power. Only the last 10 seconds could be removed as it does not match with the movie. As if it was forced by the producers to open for a sequel. 
The images are strong. From the SM looking Cenobites to deformed bodies of other Cenobites to raw flesh. You need a strong stomach to survive the movie. And all is so amazing, so creative, wow! The lights are used like in Murnau movies but in colour rather than in black&white and less exaggerated. The result is very good for the thrilling effects. The sound effects, the heart beating, the voices coming from the house, the slight noise by cutting flesh, wood or anything, the noise done by the Cenobites, by the insects, all these is worked excellently and covers many things without being just an inventory of sound effects. They really match to the storytelling. And this is always a great job to me when soundtrack and moving pictures match! Many of these effects are used since the 2000s with lots of exaggeration or monotony. Mostly because it does not match the story but only intends to announce an effect with ponderousness.
The characters look very 80s but the roles are timeless and therefore the movie can be appreciated today as in the 80s.
Rating: 8 /10

The movie shows also creativity in the posters. See below. 



Grain (2017)

Also Known As: La particule humaine
Year of first release: 2017
Director: Semih Kaplanoglu
Actors: Jean-Marc Barr, Ermin Bravo
Country: TR, D, F, S, Q
Genre: Drama
Conditions of visioning: 16.04.2018, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English version with German subtitle
Synopsis: In an undefined near future, Professor Erol Erin (Barr), a seed geneticist, lives in a city protected from multi-ethnic immigrants by magnetic walls. For unknown reasons, the city’s agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis. In a meeting at the headquarters of Novus Vita, the corporation which employs him, Erol hears about Cemil Akman (Bravo), a fellow geneticist who wrote a thesis about the recurrent crises affecting genetically modified seeds. Erol sets out on a journey to find him.
Review: On the paper the story makes sense and sounds interesting (imdb or allocine). By watching just the movie, I would not say it deals with migration, even if some images at the beginning show a border like in Ceuta or Mexico/USA. I would not say it deals with corporation, even if we see people working in Novus Vita who have a controlling view on the biology, like we all suspect about Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta. I do not really know how to describe the story apart from a guy following another one without much talking and with a kind of untold admiration. A kind of initiation in a spartan and rather ecological way of life.
There is no much emotion in the movie apart from what the sceneries gives. Therefore the acting is difficult to appreciate. Having a black&white picture helps a lot in having beautiful sceneries, portraits and picture in general. A poetic movie could have been the result, but it is not by lack of lyrism and of dialogues. Jean-Marc Barr fans may get a poetic impression of the movie because this guy looks peaceful and poetic by himself.
The movie may attract many people due to the critics it got, but disappoint them because of the lack of story and of poesie.
Rating: 4 /10

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Lady Bird (2017)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2017
Director: Greta Gerwig
Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Conditions of visioning: 22.04.2018, Schauburg, English version with German subtitle
Synopsis: Christine "Lady Bird" MacPherson (Ronan) is a high school senior from the "wrong side of the tracks." She is bored, feels blocked in her emancipation in the Californian Sacramento and even worse in her Catholic high school. She longs for adventure and emancipation. She aims at applying to a university on the East coast.
Review: I am a big fan of Greta Gerwig since we met via Frances Ha. And I am today even more fan. In her writing and directing she manages to show quite common life scenes of the teenager with its full intensity: the importance given to the first partner and to the first time, the impression to be special, the will to be special, the wish to look like somebody else, etc. There are plenty of conflicts with her mother, with her father, with her best friend,with herself. Excellent writing work managing to make a common story so tense that I was stuck to the screen.
The role of Lady Bird is therefore fascinating. It is easy either to see oneself or friends in the teenie times. With both the nostalgia for that time and the remorse. The great originality and amazing strength of the movie lies more in the acting than in the role itself. Saoirse Ronan manages to give intensity to her character and not only because of her intense eyes. Her gestures, her intonation, her visible conflicts. Excellent acting job!
Rating: 8 /10

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Tooth Fairy (2010)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2010
Director: Michael Lembeck (many comedy TV-series episodes including Friends)
Actors: Dwayne Johnson (San Andreas, Welcome to the Jungle), Ashley Judd (Heat, Olympus has Fallen), Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music)
Country: USA, CDN
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Conditions of visioning: 09.05.2017, VOD, 14" computer screen.
Synopsis: Derek a.k.a. "The Tooth Fairy" on the ice rink is a hockey player that sometimes spoils other people's dreams. He will thus be summoned to a 2-week Tooth Fairy duty.
Review: Every action hero had to go at some point through the challenge of starring in a comedy, which humor works on the contradiction between a big serious tough guy and very light situations usually involving kids: Kindergarten Cop for Schwarzenegger (I think he started the trend on purpose as I read in his autobiography), The Pacifier for Vin Diesel, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (no kids involved) for Stallone, Death Becomes Her or The Whole Nine Yards for Willis (not goofy comedies but his action character is usually already funny). For "The Rock" Johnson it was the first attempt at comedy but not the last, although still the goofiest to date.
It is funny that I have recently been watching or thinking about several movies involving the Tooth Fairy mythology: Hellboy II, Rise of the Guardians, Don't be afraid of the Dark. This version is quite children-oriented, although it includes jokes that maybe adults will enjoy more, especially wordplay around "tooth" and "wings" (for example the Fairy Tool Evolution written by Charles Darwing..., "you can't handle the tooth", "nothing but the tooth" ...).
I found the movie too dumb for my taste at the beginning, with the mandatory training period for Johnson's character as Tooth Fairy. Fortunately at around half-movie comes the predictable character change, then the predictable last conflict followed by redemption and the predictable happy ending, all less goofy and more feeling-oriented, which if not original were at least watchable.
Note the nice small roles for Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music) and Seth MacFarlane (A Million Ways to Die in the West, Ted, Ted 2, Family Guy TV-series)
Rating: 4 /10

Saturday, May 5, 2018

A quiet place (2018)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2018
Director: John Krasinski
Actors: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe
Country: USA
Genre: Thriller
Conditions of visioning: 03.05.2018, Cinemaxx, German version
Synopsis: Two parents do what it takes to keep their children and soon to be newborn safe in a world full of creatures hunting every sound they can hear.
Review: The fact that the movie focusses on the silence reminds me Blindness with Julianne Moore focussed on the blindness. The plot sounds like for an horror movie. But it is in fact an excellent thriller. Because we almost never see the monsters. Instead we follow the family (including a deaf girl played by Millicent Simmonds) and their silence, their fear, their way to adapt to this silent world. And therefore without much SFX we enter into a new world. Great! 
The story is quite simple but the evolution of the characters and especially of Millicent Simmonds are very interesting as they are based on human events such as the love to a member of the family, the birth of a new member or the discovery of oneself.
Because the actors almost never speak, all their acting and our attention is given to their expression, to their movements. And even if Millicent Simmonds seems to be quite always the same face, she becomes more open during the movie. Emily Blunt and John Krasinski manage to act love, fear, protection, accusation, despair without a word and this makes it sublime. 
There are many ideas to make visible their adapted organisation that are quite creative. Red light/ Yellow light during the night to know whether the place is safe or there is any monster around. The sand to pave the ways for the bare foot walkers.
This movie is a great combination of tense thriller and amazing acting! Brilliant!
Rating: 9 /10