Into the Void

Yeah I get that it is supposed to be a zombie movie with a heart. And I'm not dissing Canadian productions, I actually do enjoy the niceness in a lot of Canadian shows and movies but in this film it just didn't seem to work and proved to keep this a bit dull, slow, and weird. When seeing what it was I did have high hopes, but a better Canadian zombie love story would be The Returned with Emily Hampshire.

The "zombies" are not really zombies nor do they seem overly dangerous- the hero walks among them with no problems or even getting attacked. The dialogue is painful, although the actors are not terrible. There doesn't seem to be a point to this movie. It's too awful to be enjoyably bad.

Well, I sat down to watch the 2019 movie "Into the Void" from writer and director Jordan Cantello with the notion that it was a zombie movie. Little did I know that this was a 'zombie movie with a heart'. Well, watch the movie, and you'll get what I mean.

I didn't enjoy this movie. It was purely too mundane and unfathomably slow paced. So slow, in fact, that I gave up 45 minutes into the ordeal. Why? Well, absolutely nothing of any interest had happened in those prolonged 45 minutes and I didn't care one ounce about the characters in the movie. So continuing to watch it would just be considered self-torture.

Well, I will say that the movie was nicely filmed and had some good enough production value to it. However, I didn't enjoy the storyline, nor the fact that this wasn't really a zombie movie in the traditional sense. So I was rather disappointed with this pseudo-dramatic dribble that was "Into the Void".

Actually, the title of the movie, "Into the Void", is a clear indicator of what you will be in for when you sit down to watch this 2019 movie; a whole lot of nothing.

I am rating "Into the Void" a generous two out of ten stars, solely for its production value. There was absolutely nothing enjoyable or entertaining in this movie for my liking, and I have zero interest in returning to watch the rest of the movie, as I simply couldn't care less about the storyline of the characters in the movie.

-1 Star for the horrible acting in the opening sequence

-2 Stars for the stupid stupid forest scene with the 'We're gonna take your bag' guys. Lets see how many irrational moments we can put into a scene shall we?

And in the end there were not any real positives I could see at all in this 'Love Story' I was surprised I made it through the whole thing without shutting it off.

This movie really hits home, given the state of the world right now as we face off against a pandemic. Right off the bat, you see some characters wearing face masks, which helps in setting it apart from many zombie films.

It's well shot and the love story is interesting. Some really nice thriller moments as well. It breezes by and there is never a dull moment.