Started well, but fizzles out I was looking forward to this when I found out Sam Esmail was writing and directing, as I loved his series 'Mr. Robot'.
This film, however, is one of those slow-burners that feels like it's building, and building, but then never really goes anywhere.
You get about halfway through and then the boredom begins to creep in, so you start thinking things like, 'I hope this ends up being worth the wait.'
Unfortunately, the boredom only continues to grow, with no 'saving grace' coming to the rescue.
Now, you've got your usual arrogant, wannabe sophisticates in these reviews saying things like, 'God! Just dumb people not understanding this mASteRPieCE! Hurrrr durrrrr!!!'
No, I understood the message fine. This film is about humans being more concerned with a load of mundane, nothing stuff - TV shows, social media, sports, etc. - instead of being concerned about things that actually matter, things that have a drastic effect on our planet and race, and how we have to get along and work together to survive crisis, blah blah blah.
There's nothing there that requires a high level of intelligence to grasp. It's pretty basic stuff.
People are confused about the deer. Personally, I feel like that's more of an 'open to interpretation' aspect. The way I saw it was, the deer were gathering around and just staring out the humans as if to say, 'It's your fault. You humans. That's why this is all happening.'
But it's one of those things where you just take it how you want to take it; I decided to go more on the metaphorical side with it.
Ultimately, this film tries to scare you with the 'This could happen in real life, at any moment' rhetoric, but it puts so much of its focus on that side of things, that it forgets to have a gripping narrative and dialogue to keep you invested.
There was some good there, but the bad outweighed the good, for me.