Ascension (I) (2002)
1/10
Beware !
20 March 2012
Warning: Spoilers
I really looked forward to see this movie. I am a big fan of horror/apocalypse stories and a religious/psychological twist is not a bad addition. On the cover it said that the movie was inspired by Tarkovskij, that the Writer/Director will become the next Lynch/Cronenberg. It had all these different movie festival price/selection tags. My thought was: Wow! this will be an awesome dark story that really scares you and it will probably mess with your head as well. Boy was I wrong. This is definitely one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I have seen many bad ones. It has no story what so ever. Terrible, amateurish and quasi intellectual dialogue, luckily there isn't much of it. The visuals are extremely poor, no atmosphere and the cinematography is non existent. SPOILER WARNING - The movie is about three women (dressed in cloaks) of different ages that walk up the stairs in an old abandoned factory, only one makes it to the top... THAT'S IT. That takes 1 hour and 43 minutes so you can imagine how much time is wasted filming rusty staircases and old concrete walls... with a video camera. The whole movie feels like a bad high school movie project in every aspect, not only the budget. No offense to the makers, making movies is hard. But, having all these tags and recommendations from serious film festivals makes me question the knowledge and intellect of those people. Their only excuse would be if they were not sober when they watched/reviewed this movie. DON'T SEE IT! If this is considered good, I am definitely from the wrong planet.
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