Caviara

This film starts out like a Kafka short story, but it quickly unravels in every direction. The plot turns incoherent, the characters are poorly written and lack any real depth. It tries to build a mysterious atmosphere, but ends up being nothing more than dull. At first, you keep hoping the curtain of mystery will lift and reveal some kind of key to the puzzle. The trouble is, there isn't one. There's no mystery, no key. The film has no point at all. Out of the ten most boring films I've ever seen, I'd easily rank this as number two. A complete waste of time. The pacing, in addition to being uninteresting, is unbearably slow. I nearly fell asleep. I almost walked out halfway through. I forced myself to sit through to the end, thinking at least I'd finally get some clarity. But no-nothing. Zero. A total flop. Honestly, it works better as a sleeping aid than as a film.

This film had everything it needed to be a success. Well, almost everything. It had the money, it had the technical means, it had the lead actor. But what this film lacks is a good script. In the end, we're subjected to an avalanche of clichés, each one more syrupy than the last, shots blatantly copied from Jurassic Park, and unbearably dull stretches of screenplay.

As for the secondary character-the little girl who doesn't speak the same language as the main protagonist-we really could have done without her. The actress gives a poor performance, the role is pointless, even awkward. The film would have been better if she simply hadn't been there.

The special effects are decent, but the number of dinosaurs is disappointingly low. Overall, the result is just bland. The kind of film you half-watch while doing something else, fiddling with your phone, and forget entirely a week later.

In a word, a pointless film that would have been better off never being made. Not worth your time.

All the ingredients were there to create a good old-fashioned horror movie: solid direction, great lighting, and a decent cast. However, the script is so weak that one might wonder if it was written by the intern on duty during the writers' strike. The characters' psychology is nonexistent, if not outright absurd-Iris seems indifferent to everything, completely jaded. It's as if having a malevolent entity in her basement is just an everyday occurrence for her. She doesn't even seem surprised when she sees it for the first time. As for the ending, I've written it myself at least ten times before. A film to pass the time, but one you'll forget by the next day.