Monsters
Possibly one of the most frustrating movies I have ever seen. With a title like Monsters, you think you would have some idea of what you were going to get, but you would be wrong. Magnolia Pictures is doing it’s best to sell this as a District 9/Cloverfield for 2010 and they’re doing a damn good job. They’ve gotten some good festival buzz, cut a great teaser and gotten Neil Kellerhouse to design one of the best posters I’ve seen this year. But do not be fooled because this is not that film.
Monsters is essentially a Richard Linklater movie with aliens present for about 3 minutes of the films 90 minute running time. The rest is 2 characters crossing the “infected zone” in Mexico on their journey back to America. You keep waiting for the film to ramp up and it just never does. Nothing. Ever. Happens. The finale reaches for some kind of poetic beauty but you will be too angry by that point to care. They should cut 15 minutes of the characters talking and replace it with some suspense or action setpieces, or cut 3 minutes of aliens and change the title to “People”.
