Site

Took a chance on this indie film, and Site is more than just sci-fi-- it's smart, emotional, psychological, and full of high-concept ideas. I can see how some might expect a horror movie and be disappointed if they're looking for mindless entertainment, but it's quite the opposite and you need to pay attention to get it. The mix of supernatural mystery and real historical events is intense but handled with care. It's a slow build, but by the end I was hooked, reflecting on its themes of trauma, redemption, and how the past echoes into the present. One of the most intelligent genre films I've seen in a while.

Without knowing what I was in for here, I opted to watch the 2025 movie "Site" solely because I had the opportunity to do so. I virtually didn't know what I was in for, and thus harbored no expectations whatsoever to the movie. So in a sense, I suppose, then writer and director Jason Eric Perlman had every opportunity to entertain and impress me.

The storyline in the movie, as written by Jason Eric Perlman, was a bit sluggishly paced. It took forever to go anywhere in the narrative, and I have to admit that my interest in the movie was waning with each minute that writer and director Jason Eric Perlman spent setting the scene.

Of the entire cast ensemble in the movie, I was only familiar with actors Jake McLaughlin, Theo Rossi and Yoson An. The acting performances in "Site" were good.

Visually then the movie was quite alright. The effects were good and looked nice.

Watchable, sure, but hardly an outstanding or noteworthy movie. Nor is it a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time.

My rating of writer and director Jason Eric Perlman's 2025 movie "Site" lands on a generous four out of ten stars.

SITE is one of those films that sticks with you, and makes you wish all new Hollywood films were as bracingly original. It's thought-provoking, suspenseful, risk-taking, and yet somehow emotional with the characters' stakes. I enjoyed it even more than "Arrival," and appreciate how they nailed the ending without being heavy-handed. Overall, a superb independent film that teaches us the past and future may be more entwined than they appear.

There are real world atrocities that should better be left to be discussed and shown by historians instead of exploiting them. Unit 731 is one of them. While I get the fascination and the need of trying to make sense of things too violent for our mond to grasp, this is not it. Spinning new lore and even conspirary theories around war crimes could be considered a crime in itsself. There were real people who were tortured and killed there. While I think it was not the intention to lessen the atrocities committed there, to me it does exactly that by giving real life occurances a supernatural spin.