Mosquito State

If there was a social commentary in this movie, I missed it. It DID remind me a little bit of "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka but everything else was lost on me, I'm afraid. Guess I'm just not as cerebral as I thought. If you want to be aggravated and/or frustrated then you may want to watch this movie; after all, it IS pretty to look at and the music is adequately ominous and brooding, anything else it meant to say only ruffled my hair on its way over my head.

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.

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.

People are strange, when you're a stranger..

I liked the visual styling, but focused too much on mood and too little on why I should care. Shallow, boring.

Mosquito State is a very interesting movie on paper. A cronenburg-esque body horror flick that ties in with the 2007 economic crysis. All the technical aspects of the movie are terrific.

The movie has beautiful cinematography and great music and sound design. Unfortunately the movie falls apart in the story aspect. Beau Knapp plays his role far to cartoonishly to be taken seriously but also doesn't bring a lot of charisma either. He does fine when sulking around his apartment but fails when it comes to interacting with the other actors. The biggest problem with movie is that it's overall it's not very interesting.

I will clarify again that movie is beautiful looking but all the creepy mosquito shots and market crash metaphors can't make up for a Boeing main character who you spend the whole movie with.