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Pretty good film without any woke nonsense...

posted 3 years ago by cyguration (3951)
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I like that this film escalated steadily into an explosive, action-packed climax.

Most films do the opposite, I find that they have a strong start and then fizzle in the middle and then have an okay ending. This movie did the complete opposite, started kind of slow, picked up steam, built tension, and then had an action-packed finale.

Some people in other threads talked about stereotypes but I have no idea what they're on about in that regard. The twist with the terrorists was nice, and the fact that this wasn't another female empowerment trappings typical of most Netflix films is what gave it the legs to keep it interesting.

Also, I loved the fact that the movie mostly maintained consistency with the themes: Losing humanity, the struggle to avoid being overtaken by the primal urges, etc. I imagine this will become a nice little cult classic in some year's time. Hopefully they avoid any sequels because I can only see them doing the whole concept a disservice with needless over-plotting and over-exposition.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

The story had potential, but they pretty much killed it by using the kid's memory of what happened as the main vehicle of the movie. If a director chooses to do that then they need to be very careful and insure that the movie being told through the eyes of one character doesn't ignore that fact by going ot scenes that would ahve been completely unkown by the kid. Does the kid know what happened in the cargo hold when he was in the other part of the plane? Does the kid know what his mother is experiencing when she is in a different part of the plane? The whole movie would have been better and avoided being stupid if it was simply presented as normal story and not have the bulk of it as a flash back told a character that was really only aware of a small part of what actually happened.

[–] Kaiserblade (17) 3 years ago

I think you got it wrong there. It was not being told back by the kid. They showed what happened at the beginning as a film narrative not the kid's. Do you think the kid was telling them what happened to his mother when he was a baby??

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I think they were mixing things up. Some of it was shot as if it was the kids explanation of what had happened, otherwise they wouldn't have pulled in woman to talk to the boy. But yes some of it was clearly just a flashback. The problem is it was never made clear what was what so you had no real clue as to what the people on the ground have been told or anything else. It just seemed sloppy.

[–] cyguration (3951) 3 years ago

Uh, they made it quite obvious that majority of the movie was from the mother's perspective, hence her flashbacks of what happened leading up to the plane incident. As Kaiserblade aptly pointed out, they only showed you the beginning of the film with the boy to hook you into what was going on.

Keep in mind that majority of the beginning segment was from the military commander's perspective, since he had no idea what was going on and neither did we as the audience. We only saw the boy when he escaped from the lower compartment AFTER spending some minutes with the commander and Fahid.

Once the woman is brought in to talk to the boy that's when we flashback to the events leading up to the terrorist/vampire attacks.

[–] chilone (17913) 3 years ago

I had complete clue. No confusion on my part.

[–] ATG6 (3000) 2 years ago

Yeah, they gave away part of the plot by starting where they did. Better to just tell a linear story so the suspense is real throughout. Redeemed with a great ending though.

[–] Ninneveh (8) 3 years ago

I agree 95%. The only tentative "woke" thread was early in the movie when we were shown Farid in the cockpit. At that point I knew they were going to try to fool the audience into thinking he was the terrorist because he was muslim, only to instead pull a bait and switch and make the terrorists white guys. My prediction was correct of course, but the movie was plenty enjoyable regardless of that. Would love a sequel.

[–] Kowalski (76257) 3 years ago

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[–] Ninneveh (8) 3 years ago

I predicted it early on, and it played out exactly as I thought. If you can't see that they were playing the "flip the stereotype of terrorists being only muslim on it's head" angle, not sure what to tell you. Its exactly what happened on screen. All the muslim characters were good, and the white terrorists plus 1 token black guy at best bad, and at worst psychopathic. It was even referenced by Farid in a meta-context when he said something to the effect of how the terrorists set him up to look like he was the terrorist by faking the conference he was invited to, which is exactly what the movie tries to do to the audience in the beginning. To the movie's credit, it made the woke element tolerable to swallow since it was integrated into a clever plot. So regardless of it, the movie was A-.

[–] cyguration (3951) 3 years ago

Yep, well said.

I didn't even mind that because the passengers -- once they were privy to the terrorists making it look like the Muslims were the terrorists -- noted the real reasons why the terrorists were doing what they were doing (attempting to crash the market).

The bad guys had a pretty cool plan, would have gotten away with it scot-free had the vampire lady not been on-board. I actually would have loved to have seen a little bit more about their organization and what they were up to, since they were actually mercenaries hired to carry out a pseudo-terrorist attack.