Portals

They sure know how to make effective trailers nowadays, they totally fooled me. Decent, noteworthy directors orchestrating a movie produced by my favorite horror medium & "Portals" was the result - I am indeed very disappointed.

I was deciding on what to watch with my sister, "Portals" had just came out, so I showed her the trailer & it's a nice trailer, nothing too impressive, but certainly intriguing. So started 80 minutes of a regressive horror entertainment. "Portals" take place during a series of world-wide blackouts, followed by mysterious cosmic anomalies popping up all over the globe & they scare some people and draw others in. Directors involved have previously gifted us a few good movies including "The Night Comes for Us", "Blair Witch Project" and the less than good "Beyond Skyline". To start positively, the qualities of "Portals" include some (not all) cool and creative production design / cinematography choices, dark sci-fi sound design and decent enough acting. Sadly, the script contains very little substance, moves at a snails pace and will very likely leave you dissatisfied or even irritated. Frankly, "Portals" doesn't make any sense and doesn't even compensate by being effectively ominous, eerie, open-ended or just the good kind of style-over-substance. It's hard to fish for the best in this movie, because nothing really excels, but the cake probably goes to Timo Tjahjanto for the segment of "Sarah" - stretched out and underwhelming, but better on the background of everything else.

"Portals" angered me which not a lot of movies manage to do, it would've been better already by just cutting off 20 minutes from the runtime. Hardcore sci-fi horror fans, cosmic horror fans, forgiving anthology fans - you can try to have a go at this but beware, it's extremely lacking of literally everything. My rating: 3/10.

A complete mess of a film. A sure time waster. I saw this only cos of the director Timo Tjahjanto. His other films r solid horror/thrillers n i am shocked why he agreed to direct a seg. Even his seg is badly shot with the annoying flickering lights n shaky cam. Generous with a 2 for one head blasting scene.

This is not how a movie works, there is has to be an ending, a conclusion of the story not just putting some random cinema. and what is all about the gore ? it's absolutely not on point for this kind of genre, i tough this is sci-fi it is not !! don't waste you're time for this movie. this is just a garbage.

I watched it for free on Crackle and I still think I'm due a refund.

This is really bad. No redeeming qualities about this movie.

The only reason for watching this film could be family or friends involvement in the cast. Perhaps your granddaughter or a neighbour or a second cousin is in the cast here. It works as a hobby project but I feel like it's a waste.

Poor acting, poor narrative, poor effects and most importantly a wasted potential.

If you enjoy gore and "eye popping" bloody stuff which gives no meaning - search no more.

I am very sorry for the actors who tried to do a decent job, but this is not something you put in portfolio.