I was hoping this was going to be as mindlessly fun as the Resident Evil movies, with Jovovich and Anderson teaming up to adapt a Capcom video game again. It’s not. The entire film is cut like a trailer, which means it is a frenetic pace that is extremely tiring and disorientating.
Much like a trailer, we have a premise but no plot. We don’t get to know the characters’s personalities, let alone get familiar with their names. Because we…
My biggest question going in was, “Why call it Until Dawn if it’s not an adaptation of the game story?” I reckoned cynical marketing reasons, but rather, it seems to be a meta-adaptation of the game mechanics. Except, of course, the unique thing about Until Dawn the game was that your characters died permanently, and here we’re stuck in a time loop…
While I ire the practical effects, this movie’s color grading is awful. Skin tones look almost orange, and…
This is cinema.
Using visuals and sound to not just tell a story, but to truly communicate something. It would be folly to look at this just as a narrative, this movie is saying something true and emotional. Something that cannot be put in words. Cinema. It’s beautiful, melancholic, and hopeful.
Amazing stuff.
I really was into the premise of this when I heard about it.
It doesn’t stick to any of the modes of presentation it tries to use. It’s so inconsistent and doesn’t make any sense, it’s not a documentary, it’s not found footage.
It’s so afraid we might not get it we get literal lore dumps.
It used AI for the most stupid parts possible and for no good reason.
There was a germ of a good idea but every single decision made in the process of executing on it was a bad one.
