A Poor Attempt

Rating: 2/10 (12 November 2016)

Note: This is a personal review based on my preference and likes.
I wanted to like this film, given I was hoping for a scifi film that didn't hang on the action to make it great. This wasn't that film.
The film is slow, constantly throwing out flashes of depressing content and making loud, unnecessary noises to try to create an atmosphere. The audio effects especially put me off the 'big' moments, i'd have preferred mysterious or subtle effects instead of glaring ones the film used.
It reminds me a great deal of the game Firewatch, where on one hand you have this amazing thing and on the other a constant reminder of pain and suffering. Perhaps some people enjoy this contrast but I didn't, it ruined the best parts of the film by constantly dragging you back in to painful parts.
So for me this gets a 2 for: - Poor Audio - Sad Parts break up the story, take those out and it would be passable. At the very least just show them once.. - Poor Audio - Desire to leave the cinema before the film ended, felt bored + Thinking out of the box and being a little different + Special Effects and camera use, some very nice shots in the film