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Cast And CrewCast:Scoot McNairy,Whitney Able
Directed By: Gareth Edwards
Written By: Gareth Edwards
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language
Running Time: 1 hr. 37 min.
In Theaters: Oct 29, 2010 Limited
Genres: Drama, Horror, Romance,
Art House & International,
Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Synopsis: Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon... Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and grow. In an effort to stem the destruction that resulted, half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain the massive creatures... Our story begins when a jaded US journalist (McNairy) begrudgingly agrees to find his boss' daughter, a shaken American tourist (Able) and escort her through the infected zone to the safety of the US border. --
Movie Review:
A somewhat buzzy entry at both the South By Southwest and Los Angeles Film Festivals earlier this year, writer-director Gareth Edwards' spare, guerrilla-style Monsters tries to put a low-fi spin on the science-fiction genre, giving an intimate, ground-account view of a much bigger event, not unlike Cloverfield, Right at Your Door or The Crazies. Despite some engaging production design and budget-level effects work, though, the film bogs down at the midway point due to an inane script, and never really recovers.
Monsters unfolds in a near-future or alternate present day state of distress. It centers on a jaded photojournalist, Andrew Kaulder (Scoot McNairy), who finds himself tasked with locating his corporate boss' daughter, Samantha Wynden (Whitney Able, above), and escorting her to safety, along the edge of a perilous border region infected with extraterrestrial creatures.In certain ways, the movie feels like a little brother or younger cousin of Neill Blomkamp's much more organized and disciplined (and, to be fair, bigger budgeted) District 9, where crash-landed alien creatures are confined to a cordoned off sector while the world around them goes on doing its thing. The backstory here, though (a space probe launched a half dozen years earlier to collect extraterrestrial samples crashed upon re-entry over Central America, spawning aggressive new life forms), is neither particularly clearly delineated or compellingly interwoven into the narrative. So we've got a wasteland road trip with a pair of mismatched non-lovers and some Moonlighting-lite bickering. Does that hold up for an hour and a half? No, not really.
The behind-the-scenes story earns the movie a hearty dose of respect and admiration. Shot with just a five person crew and a cast of essentially two, Edwards and his creative team traveled through Guatemala, Belize and Mexico, finding and utilizing their locations and supporting actors as they went. The result is loose-limbed, and unfolds against a backdrop that isn't overly processed.
Edwards' technical proficiencies are obvious and quite real (in addition to writing and directing, he also takes cinematographer, production designer and visual effects supervisor credits), but do not extend to the written realm, alas. There is quite obviously a sociopolitical undercurrent to the movie (the entirety of Mexico is deemed a quarantined infected zone), but Edwards only engages fitfully on this front, and when he does, it's often in clumsy metaphor, as with the alien creatures who display more aggression whenever American warplanes pass by overhead. (Get it?) It's clear that he wants Monsters to mean something in addition to entertaining an audience, but it's just as clear (if the perfectly generic, rather ill-fitting title wasn't already an indicator) that he hasn't figured out what exactly it's supposed to mean.
Nevermind, too, some howlingly bad dialogue and wrongheaded vocalizations (upon stumbling across a candle-laden church with commemorations to the dead, a character actually solemnly utters, "The vibe just changed"), as well as myriad other narrative details that don't add up — the fact that Andrew is laboring for a compelling still photo of these supposedly elusive beasties, for instance, even though cable television runs wall-to-wall images of them. Edwards has the nuts-and-bolts talents of a filmmaker, but Monster seems, on whole and in piecemeal fashion, a sop to audiences, a work of commercial pandering in lieu of any actual burning passion.
Apart from its impressive production design (forlorn and of a piece) and a rather relaxed pacing that isn't interested in attempting to make a play for breakneck scares, the strongest thing going for Monsters is Able's performance. With her short bob haircut and conflicted awareness of her own entitlement, she takes her unhappily engaged rich girl character and breathes into her a three-dimensionality and life not present in the written word. McNairy, on the other hand, never seems particularly believable as a photographer (a maladjusted indie band drummer is more like it), and so his arc, and indeed presence, induce at first sighs, then irritation, then hostility. In a movie called Monsters, someone should get eaten. It's a shame that it's not him, leaving more one-on-one time with the very able Able.
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