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The Dustwalker (2019)
Low expectations, still disappointed
My wife and I found this movie on Hulu and watched the trailer - looked like a low-stakes horror film and it was rated 4 stars on IMDB. We decided to watch it, knowing it was probably not going to be all that thrilling.
We were even more disappointed than we thought.
Dialogue:
I would say the biggest disappointment of them all was the dialogue. It was written the way a bad book writes exclamations. I think the Doc actually said, "Incredible!" at the beginning of a scene. People used nonsense phrases and ignored what others said for the sake of moving the story along. It was both hard-to-follow and difficult to understand.
Plot:
This movie made very little sense. We feel like the "big twist" at the end was both poorly explained and quickly ignored as the movie tried to end on a feel-good moment. The movie is basically, "What if that fungus that kills ants worked on people?" It jumps from scene-to-scene with no context, and lines that seem incredibly important one moment are completely ignored in the next. Basically, it was sloppy. Full of plots holes and unanswered questions.
Acting:
The acting was alright, it's not their fault they had to read a terrible script. The zombies themselves all made weird faces as if their instructions were, "Look like you smelled something bad and are mad about it."
Graphics:
The CGI whenever a zombie-person roared was just - bad. Left for Dead on the PS3 bad. The monster at the end was fine, but unexciting.
The end of the movie just left us with a ton of questions -
Did the alien accomplish the thing he was supposed to do?
What are they going to do about all the dead animals they still have laying around?
Do the people know the monster is a protector?
Why would they continue to study a thing that was supposed to be destroyed?
How did that alien-bug fly a spaceship?
How was the alien able to create that massive dust wall? Magic?
Are there more bugs currently infected like the pill-bug that infected the blonde girl? Is the disease actually gone?
What happened to the grandma, the alien's spaceship, the first teenage girl, the teenage kids' dog, Frank, and Dean's baby?
If we got any of these plots holes wrong, apologies, but we're not going to watch it again to figure them out.