★ 4 / 10
Knows what it wants and goes for it
Gimly
Knows what it wants and goes for it, but could really have done with better cameras... and editing... and effects... and dialogue... and acting... _Final…
Knows what it wants and goes for it, but could really have done with better cameras... and editing... and effects... and dialogue... and acting...
_Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
★ 3 / 10
A mess. What were they trying to accomplish by making it?
jadavix
We've all seen movies that feel like they can't make up their mind what they want to be, that never find their tone, or have an off sense of pacing, where…
We've all seen movies that feel like they can't make up their mind what they want to be, that never find their tone, or have an off sense of pacing, where nothing seems to happen for a long time, and then too much happens in quick succession, and you're either not paying attention or have stopped caring.
"Monster Party" is guilty of all that, sure, but it's a bit different to the norm in the sense that it's final scenes seem like they were directed by a completely different person than everything that led up to it. We get a long, tedious introduction sequence, finally the violence we have all been waiting for at the half way point, some totally uninspired pseudo-thriller cat-and-mouse sequences, and irritatingly non-threatening villains.
Then the movie goes full horror in the last fifteen-or-so minutes, with some supernatural type events that I'm not sure it bothered to explain.
The only actor in the movie who could play scary is Lance Reddick, better known as Cedric Daniels on "The Wire". He is underserved here, as he is in every movie role I've seen him in. The decision to leave the real villainy up to some younger Bret Easton Ellis type characters is fatal to it ever becoming scary.
What is really egregious to the movie, however, is its totally out-of-whack pacing, its plot making no sense, and the mood seems going for a slow burn at the beginning and then turning into ridiculous hyper-kinetic carnage at the end. Or, the fact that the movie has too many characters with too many motivations, and you don't care about any of them and none make any impression, or, blah, blah, blah...
I could go on for a while listing everything wrong with this movie, but I'd rather just stop here.
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ANOTHER dead torrent!!!!! RESEED PLEASE!!!!!!