bastionrobin
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Coma's art direction for the setting is incredible. There are a lot of shots that look like a surreal painting with concepts I find very enjoyable followed by a great soundtrack.
Some of the camera angles help with establishing the scale while others seem to highlight some of the less detailed vfx. Camera is a bit too shaky at times a well and is dangerously close to giving me a migraine.
Where the film is at its weakest however is the excess amount of info dumping and explaining concepts they should have built up to. We get an explanation to the antagonist entities 1/3 of the way in the film. I think a bit of ambiguity would do wonders to make it more engaging and leave the audience wanting more.
The characters are a bit tropy with many of them feeling more like quotas than people. One character functions as the jerk who doubts our protagonist. The girl who is there for exposition and to be a romantic interest. And the old guy who knows he is the chosen one. Jerk basically sets up that he likes girl REALLY early and we haven't even had a full minute of screen time of them developing.
I think this world would function better as a video game. Characters have different abilities they can use, a series of weapons at their disposal and different ways to traverse the world that could provide a cool Centaur in a Maze type of loop.
The monsters (Reapers) have designs I find very enjoyable. The concept around them however leaves much to be desired while having some, kind of uncomfortable underlying message about coma patients the writers didn't need to include. Again, ambiguity would be beneficial here and make them a more frightening antagonist. I like how they come across as a Rorschach ink blots, maybe play into that, and tone down the particle effects because they become very noisy visuals that could be refined and looking better if they didn't have such a vfx heavy design.
Some of the camera angles help with establishing the scale while others seem to highlight some of the less detailed vfx. Camera is a bit too shaky at times a well and is dangerously close to giving me a migraine.
Where the film is at its weakest however is the excess amount of info dumping and explaining concepts they should have built up to. We get an explanation to the antagonist entities 1/3 of the way in the film. I think a bit of ambiguity would do wonders to make it more engaging and leave the audience wanting more.
The characters are a bit tropy with many of them feeling more like quotas than people. One character functions as the jerk who doubts our protagonist. The girl who is there for exposition and to be a romantic interest. And the old guy who knows he is the chosen one. Jerk basically sets up that he likes girl REALLY early and we haven't even had a full minute of screen time of them developing.
I think this world would function better as a video game. Characters have different abilities they can use, a series of weapons at their disposal and different ways to traverse the world that could provide a cool Centaur in a Maze type of loop.
The monsters (Reapers) have designs I find very enjoyable. The concept around them however leaves much to be desired while having some, kind of uncomfortable underlying message about coma patients the writers didn't need to include. Again, ambiguity would be beneficial here and make them a more frightening antagonist. I like how they come across as a Rorschach ink blots, maybe play into that, and tone down the particle effects because they become very noisy visuals that could be refined and looking better if they didn't have such a vfx heavy design.
This is a film that really break the mold for modern films. Focused on good visuals and metaphorical ideas. Not for the action obsessed viewers most of us have become. It is definitely a story that takes its time to set a mood and creat immersion with its cinematography, art direction and overall visuals. THINK MORE "2001: A Space Odyssey" over "Lord of the Rings". If you don't like it that is completely fine however since it is a bit more of a niche movie. Trailers were misleading obviously but it was an interesting subversion of what it actually was. Probably some videos out there explaining it. LASTLY, it does tend to get slow at points; I will admit that since I found myself getting board from time to time. One of those movies you can get your own interpretation from.
