Mosquito State

I was lost from beginning to end. It was interesting to watch because it is very bizarre, but ultimately I didn't get any of the symbolism, I didn't understand what was happening, and by the end I didn't much care.

Mosquito State is one more film that had the potential to be good and just ended up as a big bore, even annoying.

The cinematography and visual effects, along with sound effects are stunning . A proper brooding atmosphere is created ............and then nothing much happens.

Beau Knapp is a great actor, but why was he instructed to play this role as some variation of Quasimodo ? He is the worst part of the film and also the largest part of the film. As has become the new thing in film, he seems to have been told to do everything as slowly as possible. His performance here is career ending bad, almost a caricature.

I have no idea what this film was even about. Taking place during the financial and housing bubble of 2007, there isn't much about this that turns it into horror except the millions of CGI mosquitos and a not well done grotesque make-up job on Mr. Knapp.

If you hate bugs this may give you nightmare's, but there is nothing scary about the story, if it even had a story.

As several critics had described it as horror I thought I'd give it a go. But no. This is an absolutely bland film that goes nowhere. It was more focused on economics and wine than anything remotely interesting.

Straight up, don't waste your time even if you like pretentious art house films. This one is shot quite nicely, lovely visuals. That's about all I can say about that.

Acting, eh. Lead is not bad, but since the film is so bizarre, yet ultimately so dull and lacking in any sort of payoff the actor's attempts at an odd, 'super intelligent' savant type weirdo are just that, odd.

I know it was set before the 2007 stock market crash and supposed tomake some sort of statement about futility seeing the future and being a small organism that should return to its ecosystem or some nonsense. Whatever! It was dull, made no sense, had no payoff with all the mosquitoes, the girl, the jerks at work or the huge deformities on his body. Boring.

OK then ... one star for the somewhat unusual idea. One star for the terrific cinematography. And one star for this film's ability to hold me until the end, to see what the outcome might be. Tempting as it is to take away that last star, I'll leave it there, But rarely do I agree with nearly all the other reviewers like I do now. If there were allegories or metaphors or allusions or anything else instructive here, I missed it completely.