- Overall: Interesting intrigue and suspense based sci-fi with a bit of action.
- Who is it for? Anyone looking for some low-key but tense sci-fi just a bit of violence.
- Synopsis & information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4520364/
- Known actors: Kate Mara, Michelle Yeoh and Paul Giamatti.
- Cameos: Brian Cox.
- Setting: Isolated research center deep in the wood.
- Style: Moody, tense sci-fi.
- Intro: A shock, then the long quiet. Slightly unsettling. You get into the mood right away.
- Story: The science-fiction part is intellectual, because there are no visible signs of it. The mood is tense throughout. You don't know what's what and who's who. There's a palpable intrigue, but it's sort of hidden. There's violence, sometimes action. It's very moody.
- Ending: Great. Surprising. Loved it.
- Epilogue: It makes the movie. Perfect.
- Dialogs: Realistic, intense.
- Characters: Each character is extremely well developed and with nice depth. If we could feel them as much as we do, there would be no movie or it would be really bad. More over, there's no real presence of archetypes. Very well done.
- Acting: Excellent. Across the board.
- Visuals: Beautiful, haunting.
- Afterthoughts: Very satisfied. I thought for a while just as the conclusion was getting underway that it would fall apart and lose the mood it had built all along, but no. Really nice.
Interestingly enough, this flick passes the Bechdel test.
