Owl Mountain (2018) User Reviews

Worth to watch and think about it

[auste-87881 · 10/10 · 27 February 2018]

Very catchy and interesting movie with a great soundtrack and acting. I really enjoyed the scenario, this confusing but very interesting storyline wings. It's one of the best Lithuanian movies I have ever seen. Worth to watch it.

I suggest to watch this movie more than once

[julijamisiunaite · 10/10 · 27 February 2018]

An extremely interesting movie with several inclusive storylines. There is plenty of symbolism and places to go deeper. Recommendations for everyone!

One of the best movies

[sigita-janusaityte · 10/10 · 1 March 2018]

Amazing acting of young actors, very catchy story-line. All the movie makes to think about what we have in our lives now and how should be grateful for that. Worth to watch more than once.

Unwatchable

[catamentality · 3/10 · 23 February 2018]

Extremely dragged out time wise. Acting is mediocre to say the least. Unnecessary amount of sex scenes for no particular reason. Story is confusing even to people who have lived that era and experienced similar things.

Only redeeming factor was the cinematography, everything else made the movie tedious to watch and extremely boring.

Barely Watchable Movie

[asta-skujyte · 2/10 · 17 February 2019]

In this particular movie there are only two things that I see as pros: it's the camera operator's work and the atmosphere of fear, chaos, and uncertainty. All the rest aspects, such as plot or characters, are just sadness embodied. To put it simply, this movie is just stuffed with various bits of Lithuanian history after WWII, when Soviet Union occupied the country. Partisan movement, mass deportation to Siberia, collaboration, conformity... These are the topics that "Owl Mountain" tries to cover. And fails miserably. The main reason of this failure are dozens of different characters, each having their own line that you are forced to follow, even though you cannot remember their names anymore - it's just that there's too much of them! The idea of showing the afterwar period through the eyes of multiple characters is great, but executed in the worst way possible, leaving the viewer tangled in a bundle of untracable storylines. The characters themselves are pretty bland. Even the main one, a young partisan, is just a good looking guy on the screen, but totally empty as a protagonist. Actors who played their roles in this movie were either confident and knew what to do in the set, either totally lost and completely unfit to work with the camera. There's no inbetween. There were lots of errors of facts (from historical and linguistic point of view), that made this movie barely watchable. But the main thing that put me off the most was unecessary sex scenes that took away from this movie more, than gave something. Either they were used as an attempt to deny a popular soviet-era anecdote, that there was no sex in the Soviet Union, or it was just a clever marketing trick for young people, because, as we all know, sex sells. To sum this review, the trailer of this motion-picture basically shows all the best bits that it has to offer. The rest are just boring fillers, and it's up to you if you want to suffer through two hours of very mediocre Lithuanian history lesson.

Welcome to another day in the Lithaunian cinema world

[gerdasaleng · 4/10 · 9 December 2019]

Plotless nonsense.

There were some great moments, but as a whole this film is actually worthless. I took my mom to the cinema to watch this film, because we both are cinephiles. Guess what, she hated it. I hated it more. It was boring, dialogues were poorly written, I couldn't understand the plot and the story just wasn't worth to be told.

It seems to me that there are three types of Lithuanian films:

1. "Historical" films about partisans, war victims and other traumatic experiences that we still cannot get over and these type of films are the only ones to actually deliver some films worth watching.

2. Creepy, uncanny, weird and stupid films about "life", "death", "existence" which are so dull and incomprehensible you wish to leave the cinema immediately. Most of these films win worthless Lithuanian cinema awards at the award ceremony and the directors of these films are very proud of themselves.

3. Stupid comedies with stupid jokes, bad acting, cringy dialogue and terrible plot. No need to add anything.