Creatures From Elsewhere

This is literally, and I'm not even kidding here, LITERALLY, the worst movie I've ever seen. It makes "The Room" look like "Citizen Kane." In fact, I'm going to re-watch "The Room" right now just so I can appreciate it more. If 2020 was a movie, it would be "The Green Knight." You have been warned.

Based on how others are trashing this film, I'm wondering if we even saw the same movie. This is a pretty good motion picture, and easily superior to "The Conjuring 2", which was just a tired repeat of the vastly superior "The Conjuring." It helps if you think of 3 as a supernatural thriller rather than a conventional horror flick. This one skews towards action and investigation rather than jump scares and thanks to the flexibility and likability of the Warrens, it still works. In fact, I'd encourage this production company to think outside the box and rather than prep for a "Conjuring 4" film, opt for a limited run series on Netflix or some other streaming platform. The Warrens are ready for it, audiences are ready for it, the only question remaining would be, is Hollywood ready for it?

This is good but not great film, although it does do something I genuinely appreciate, it breaks from the usual plot line of this type of story. I was so surprised with the reveal of the main character's origin, that I thought for a while that I must have misunderstood. Once I realized I wasn't confused, the movie became much more interesting. It is never explained, or perhaps I missed it, why "H" possesses the elite military level skills he has, but whatever, I'll let that slide. I also have take issue with a particular anti-ballistic armor that is featured, since it does not exist and is laughable. Can't let that slide - it is distracting and unnecessary. They could have easily tweaked that sequence to use realistic armor. That kind of lazy script writing costs the movie a star.

Quite good - very nearly as good as the first one. We get a few minutes of "Day 1" in the beginning, and then the film picks up where part 1 left off at "Day 474" (or whenever). This time around we get to see the monsters clearly and often, and they hold up well. Hope there's a third film that explores the origin of the creatures - or perhaps even a limited run series on a streaming service to wrap up the story.