Monolith

This movie has its issues but it also has entertainment value. If you enjoy endless vistas of desolate mountains then even if you don't care for the film itself, the heavy reliance on breathtaking shots of the multi-coloured Utah (likely the Paria mountains).

Beyond the geology and macho car, the kid is good and the hopeless terror of the protagonist is sometimes genuine, other times humorously not.

Everything is armored and automatic, is that safe, or rather a recipe for disaster? Well, find out when a suspective wife takes a completely unnecessary trip through LA desert. Surprisingly it is not unwatchable, and does keep the suspense going throughout the movie, however a few things really keeps it in the lower bracket of entertainment:

First - child is crying all the time, alarms are beeping, woman is shouting, it is just pathetic and unpleasant in a way that it does not advance the movie anywhere.

Second - the main character, Sandra, has every negative trait in the book, she is jealous, irresponsible, clingy, weak (physically and mentally), bad decision maker etc etc. You just want to throw something at the screen due to her stupid actions. At least she is a cute singer...

Third - for the life of me I could not understand why she took her child with her and not left him with her mother-in-law, even if she did decide to drive to LA, what was she hoping to do there with the child?

I think overall rank is somewhere between 4 and a 5, I decided to be generous and give it a 5 due to being at least interesting for the most part. Watch if are planing to buy a Cybertruck :-) Exact score: 45 / 100.

Not sure why the negatives. The acting is decent. Effects on the car are cool. Shrug, movie was OK for me. Solid 5 out of 10. I have watched far worse.

I'm Italian but I have not been part of it. The film is not perfect (many mistakes by the plot and the actors) but I was very convinced of the concept of the story, taken from an Italian graphic novel. The protagonist might be less stupid, but the things he does go hand in hand with the plot context. The film deserves, a great innovation in Italian cinema, and a good bet for foreigners.

For a certain situation to happen, a lot of things have to go sideways. And you have to understand that it doesn't have to be logical, it just has to bring us where we end up. So the main character going there, is terrible, but to some extend acceptable. What is unacceptable though, is her behavior with a kid in the car.

Which is one of the points leading to a certain situation. But really there is no love lost for someone like that. It's tough to root for someone or feel for someone like that. Then again it's all about the kid isn't it? Yes and you could also argue, it's just a movie. And that's where it loses me or my interest. So the tension is almost completely gone, maybe if you accept certain things, you'll be on the edge of your seat. But I do doubt it very much