The One Hundred

The film starts off with a suspenseful "who goes there style mystery" in which a creature reminiscent of The Thing stalks guests at a hotel. The plot gets weighted with a angsty teen protagonist, his deaf father, and a girl with a mysterious blood disease that the monster for some reason wants. The movie takes a hard turn quick with CGI centipedes covering the walls, the characters dying then being resurrected into monster fighting super saiyans only to die again... but then alive again.. I think. This movie is all over the place, but for what its worth me and my friends were entertained and had some good laughs. The main monster design is also fairly interesting. Good if you enjoy monster or creature flicks, bad if you are looking to watch Gone with the Wind or Oppenheimer.

The story starts out well and the action scenes were choreographed well. But the story overall does not make sense and even the flashbacks which try to help tell what happened did not contribute anything to make the plot make sense at all.

Mike Angelo is a great actor but even his great acting chops plus the amazing CGI could not lift up the movie overall. Another good actor in the movie is the deaf dad. The other cast members were forgettable, even the supposed female lead.

We understand that this is a horror film and that not a lot of things make sense. Unfortunately, instead of making the movie appeal to viewers, it just makes viewers confused.

The CGI is very good, although perhaps they went overboard in some scenes. In fact, the scenes done practical are less impressive. Set in a hotel with guests under COVID lock down, one of the guests has brought something back with them. And that is a problem, because everything has to be learned through the subtitles, and that means background and nuances are often lost. So it can become confusing. At first, there are only a few centipedes, but then suddenly there are thousands crawling over every area. And for me, it was difficult for me to become invested in any of the characters. But it was entertaining enough so I didn't feel cheated.

No pun intended - actually this is the German title of the movie ... and I think it is more fitting ... or at least way more interesting than the one they use here (did not check if this is the original title or the international ... not too keen to find out either) ... but more important than the title is the movie ... and how good it is ... I don't think this is really good ... but I have seen worse too.

Interestingly enough some seem to like the cgi ... and while there is worse stuff out there (no pun intended here either) I would not call the effects here something that is ... exciting ... unless you suspend your disbelief ... and go with the flow! The horror of it ... and within! Just saying.

Bang Average unfortunately, It starts out well enough and the first half hour keeps us guessing to who and what is responsible but after the mystery disappears so does any horror element and the movie dissolves into nothing more than a generic action with ''creepy crawlies'' showing little tension from one choregraphed CGI ridiculous fight scene reminiscent of every modern Asian & Hollywood movie to date.

In the end we're left with yet another film we have all felt we've seen a dozen times or more but done better regardless of the quality of the CGI ( personally I thought it looked ridiculous ) over the past few years.

Its such a shame, I had hoped that this wouldn't turn out this way and should really had been a better film if it concentrated more on the horror and not the overly convoluted back story of the characters, there also seems to be a bit of a general layout these Asian movies go throughout that they all seem to play out very similarly.

That said what's going on in Hollywood far out weighs the Issues faced here.