milesgreg

It's not terrible. Doesn't deserve under a 5. There are way worse movies out there. It's easy to watch. It's much better than 65, which is pretty much the same exact movie. I watched it again thinking I liked it more than most the first time and I stand by that. I've watched this movie twice! The quality is there, somewhere. The soundtrack stands out at times as well. And sure enough when the credits role M. Shyamalan was the director, who is capable of making a good movie and James Newton Howard did the soundtrack of which I had no idea. And that brings us to why it's got such a low rating. A general M Shyamalan hate. Watch it and judge for yourself.

The bad: Jadens acting, especially at the beginning, is horrendous but he does grow throughout the movie. Maybe the movie was shot chronologically and he was taking lessons during it because he does grow into the role. I can't get myself to say "better" though. Will smith is totally fine in this. Maybe a little phoned in at times. The production design of their civilization was terrible. And there are some awful plot holes. One: it gets freezing at night but there's a thunderstorm..? What, are we stupid?

But again, it's totally watchable and undeserving of a 4.8 while 65 has a 5.4 and that movie is actually stupid. I'd still give it a 4 though cause dinosaurs.

This movie looked horrible from the previews that were out years ago but after giving it a chance it turned out to be pretty entertaining. You can tell in the first scene as it cuts back and forth between a flashback and an interrogation that it just might have some quality. The handsome man known as Guy Pearce almost pulls off his character but falls short. It wasn't his fault though. It's the writing that lets him down. It is nonetheless a solid quarantine weekend movie.