A masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (8 May 2018)

There are plenty of good reviews about this movie. It's very difficult to top them and I'll spend no effort to do so. This is about the genocide in our living memory which we indifferently watched on TV screens just like J. Phoenix put it while he was shooting a footage as a reporter in the movie. The reality of the scenes hits you so hard as to make you think you could be one of those souls stranded in the hotel if you were born under wrong circumstances. The acting, directing, story telling, everything about this movie looks impeccable. Technically, there could be some minor flaws to a trained eye, but the little cinematographic details are simply obstructed by the sheer power of the story. A movie about a million people who were butchered with machetes can't escape the violent and disturbing scenes but the blood and gore were craftily kept spare to keep the focus on human drama. Even then, you feel the violence much more powerfully than cheap Tarantino movies, in which brains and guts are lavishly splattered all over the place for redneck audience consumption. In the same vein, I can't imagine any horror flick that could instill the same kind of horror that this movie will fill you with.