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The 5th Wave (2016)
Just does not make sense
I wonder how much money was spent on the effects, explosions, helicopters, consuming fires, great stuff. I was thinking, you cannot get anyone other than the US to blow such large budgets on B-rate movies.
Others have left very well written reviews, and I will just add other bits that annoyed me.
Firstly the elephant in the room. If an alien species has developed the technology to travel across galaxies, possibly faster than light and possibly solving the problems of acceleration effects on living organisms (how do you reach the speed of light, even if you can, without killing the passengers), then the secrets of the human body and any life on earth would be less than elementary school. Humanity and every other form of life could be wiped out in seconds, if they so wished. Carrier human bodies could be made in a "workshop", no need to use real humans. At a press of a button, human existence would be history (and any other living being).
If you get shot on your thigh, you cannot stand on and cannot extend your leg, and certainly cannot roll on the floor on it and on the fresh wound, climb back into a bed etc! I'd imagine your shot leg would become an incredibly painful appendage, with every little move you'd try to make. Also, as a test, shoot your leg and then try to sit on your cast iron bath's thin rim, and hold your balance while being stitched. OK.
Camera action was frustrating in many cases concentrating too much on actors' faces than on their surroundings and the action happening around them.
Sending out a squad of disparate and ill prepared children and teenagers on a mission, using sticks and stones technology (remember you have just crossed a galaxy), is just incredibly dumb script writing.
The whole premise is dumb. The script is terrible. The story is incredibly unbelievable. I'd rather watch a super sized, bullet proof alligator bringing down helicopters, than this!
The Silent Sea (2021)
Slow, very bad science, illogical actors, plot holes
My opinions in no particular order.
It is quite slow in places, and tries to make too much of family relationships with flashbacks etc. Luckily you can always skip forward.
The pivotal theme of the background story is that a future earth has dried up: no oceans, no lakes, no rivers. How is that even possible when earth is covered 70% by water?! Did the sun go crazy? Perhaps, but then humanity would have all been fried to extinction well before the oceans ran dry. It would have been more believable to mention huge radioactive ocean contamination, maybe...
The special ops team is not "special" and not a "team" at all, they look and behave more like a bunch of friends on a picnic. So similar to Alien but so far!
The illogical actions, just so many of them. The team's captain, low IQ and incompetent. Fails to secure, ensure, communicate, protect, act decisevely, regroup, he fails in almost everything.
No dialogue, no communication amongst the members of the team, to relay and inform of the discoveries! Had I discovered a body in the fridge and the samples missing, I'd be screaming down the mic within seconds.
Then we have a seasoned doctor who (like most doctors) is quite at ease performing autopsies and cutting bodies open, and in the next scene suffering a total break down when they discover a body!
On the moon's surface, team precariously low on oxygen, running to make it to the station in time, yet the 5ft doctor has to help carry the injured team member? And afterwards the whole team sitting around while he is eventually dying on a rock, with no knowledge whether they can even make it to the station? Without sending some of the men at least forward to prepare and unlock the doors?
And again, the whole team are running to escape from the deluge, and the commando at the rear letting a 5ft female doctor hop along carrying a very large samples case, instead of taking it himself! On one hand running to escape danger, but obviously not in a hurry?!
In many cases the team's actions so slow, so hesitant, with no sense of urgency, even when they are running away from danger. They stop to talk, to look at each other meaningfully, spending ages on inaction...
In the end scenes, a seasoned commando, faced with a crazy sociopath/murderer/traitor, and with a tidal wave right on them, takes his sweet time and small talk before finally deciding to shoot him, and when he eventually does, in such a clumsy manner, that ends up getting shot himself!
Communications down and the whole team cannot reach earth base using the station's ultra powerful transmitters, yet the traitors in the team carry pocket radios which do the job just fine?! Why can't the captain also carry one of those little pocket radios then?
How could this mission ever leave earth with no clear instructions, and having to depend solely on random chance to discover a hidden and undocumented 50% of the lunar station. They do not know what they are looking for and what they are meant to retrieve. It is utterly illogical. No, it is trash.
How can green plants grow in complete darkness?
The lunar water carries a novel virus which is undetectable and allows the water to replicate when in close proximity to "living cells". Define "living cells"? And where does the extra matter come from? Why did the substation fill up with water, what "living organism" triggered it? And again where did the extra matter come from to fill up the whole lunar station?
Devil's Island (2021)
Rashed, undeveloped, more a draft than finished product
My comments in no particular order and in my opinion only.
Not bad acting from main actress. She is just pretty enough to pull it off when she is on camera, solo, for most of the film. It would not work with a less good looking actress.
A couple of scenes are bad, for example not spotting the box at the end of the pier instantly and not until she literally turns to look at it head on.
Many plot holes. Did Michael's boat really drift with the currents to arrive right outside her house? Come on!
You do not jump in the water and swim to an unknown boat to climb in and investigate (because you are vulnerable in the water, you do not know if you can climb into it once you get there, and you get wet), you rather get into your boat and go to it!
What was wrong with Michael? Why does he continue his crazy attacks once he has been exposed and with a gun pointed at him? What is he, some sort of special forces ninja guy all of a sudden? Infatuated, maybe, completely loony and not been locked up already?
Why is Mrs. Hunter even in the story? It's meaningless. Maybe Michael killed her and then also killed Mort. But then there would have been chaos at the village. And even with Michael gone, the attacks continue. Are they all homicidal sociopaths? Come on.