Disappointed

Rating: 4/10 (9 July 2019)

Spoilers Ahead Do Not Read Last Chance!!
I had very high hopes for Ari Asters 2nd film, I loved Hereditary. This film started off with a very interesting setup with good acting all around it. It started off with the main character Dani's sister killing herself & their parents via carbon monoxide poisoning but here's what started as a trend for this movie on setting up character back stories/plot lines and then never finishing or touching back on them. Things are terrible between her and her bf Christian, she finds out about his secret Swedish trip with his friends and she joins them they get there and the person who invited them is a local of this Colony by the way (SKETCHy!). They have fun for awhile but then they find out about the life cycle view these people half which is peoples lives are seasons ie 1-18(Child/Spring)18-36(Teen/Summer) 36-52 (Worker/Fall)52-72 (Retire/Winter) or something along those lines anyways only really matters for setting up this next scene to show what happens when people hit 72 at this place so they have a huge feast then they all gathered and the couple who turned 72 and was celebrated today launches off rocks from a few hundred feet and splatter there heads open but the husband survives and then a village comes and smashes his head like a balloon, the movie being good stopped right here if this was a short film and just stopped it would have been 8/10. But Ari had way to much ambition & not enough vision on this one beautiful cinematography was wasted on a terrible pointless script we never learn much about any of these characters they mostly die offscreen and theres a lot of weird nudity much like hereditary. The main girl Dani for not much of an explained reason happily watches her bf be murdered not a tear she smiled very sadistic actually. Also worth noting Christian the dull bf was sewn into a gutted bear before being burned alive. Very little script, this is as much of a plot as there was tbh. Hoping his next one has more less ambition more execution. I watched this with 3 people 2 of us would have walked out early but 1 of us loved it so we had to stay. Do not waste your time with this movie unless you really love cinematography.