Missed potential

Rating: 5/10 (5 January 2019)

The river part is great, and the concept overall is great. Also mainly pretty good camerawork and editing.
But theres 2 that i think ruined it:
1.The characters
2.The structure
So big part of the movie is centered around this group of characters that are straight from an b-horror movie in the style of 5teenagers went to a cabin. All of the characters except the one portrayed by John Malkovich were so obvious and thin plot devices if even that, maby more just filler.
The house section becomes good around at the point when the birth giving starts but still.
A mayor problem in this section is also that we have already seen the main character alive 5 years later, so theres absolutely no tension about her surviving trough the scenes, which would not be a problem if the movie didnt center around trying to create tension to the main character's survival.
So altough I love the time jump structure when it's done right here it feels like it's been slammed on as afterthought. it would have made this a lot better if it would've just used an linear timestructure or then given it a sideplot to keep it interesting.
Also the ending would have been a lot better if they had changed it so it ends to them releasing the birds but not nearly as important, would've been a nice touch though.