Review of The Lights

The Lights (2009)
5/10
Not bad for a low budget film. If you can sit through the slow sections, it has some decent thrills.
12 March 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Ok, started out great. A wife serves dinner to her husband. And decides to tell him, rather than writing a letter, that she is leaving with another man. Very stupid move. I mean she knows her husband. She should have just taken off. So, the guy starts freaking out, takes out a shot gun and wants to know who she's been seeing. Cut.

We are now shown some teenagers planning a trip to see some meteor shower, and they hit the road. This segment with the teenagers look like it was directed by a different director. The whole look of it is TV/Video/Cheap cinematography. It's not a bad watch. We get some silly dialogue. And the actors did the best they could. The music throughout was decent as well. There was a scene with these two couples of teenagers that ran with a bunch of midget horses that must be the happies thing I've seen on film. So, in that regard, going from a happy setting to what they will eventually collide with is very good.

Meanwhile, a couple of religious suit dudes knock on the wacky husband house. He kills them both. A biker breaks his chain, knocks on the killer's door, gets killed.

The kids watch the meteor shower and then their car won't start. They shack up in the killer barn. The killer shows up. They meet the killer. Two of the kids get killed. A sheriff gets killed. Two of the kids survive.

It's a low budget film. Some back story. Some decent acting. Nothing great. Music was good. Worst is the digital video feel of the cinematography. The cinematography itself was ok.

Rating is a C, 5 stars.
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