Barb Johnson

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER Fair warning. Look away and DON’T READ further if you plan to watch it regardless. I’m not kidding. Major Spoiler. In my opinion the end of a movie is so important! You’ve spent an hour and half plus of your time and expect a good ending to wrap it up in a bow. Most important if the movie is based on a true-life story, don’t change story by killing off a MAIN CHARACTER for some kind of an altruistic storyline. Absolutely didn’t make sense AND the real truth was JUST AS GOOD and altruistic. After I googled it, I was shaking my head wondering why. I would have given it a 4 star rating if this messed up ending wasn’t fed to us. I wonder how many people think that Anthony is dead. (Sorry if I ruined the movie for you.) I found this excerpt from a Roger Ebert review of the movie: “And I was disturbed by an end credits’ photo montage, in which the story’s heaviest, most shocking development involving Anthony’s fate is revealed to be a complete fabrication. But maybe I shouldn’t have been: with “Rockaway,” you don’t have to know all the details of Budion’s life—or have even seen “Stand By Me”—to get a strong feeling of what’s honest here, and what isn’t.”

A viewer HAS to be a fan of this genre, if not then you’ll be questioning EVERYTHING about the movie. Since I loved the Alien v Predator franchise, this new take on the story was easy for me to get into. In order to enjoy Sci-fi/action horror, one must SUSPEND DISBELIEF; if not then you’ll be miserable and miss the whole entertainment experience. This was a badass, innovative storyline in an exciting, brutal and lawless time. “Prey” served as a PREQUEL for the franchise showing that aliens have been here before … a long time ago. Who knows maybe this one built the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, and Stonehenge in England.

Bottom line … I don’t like movies which are too lazy to write and film an ending. This is a fictional story, don’t let the viewer have to sit through a movie and then leave us hanging without a resolved ending. Your movie is unacceptable bc of this. If it were a true and factual story, I could understand, but it isn’t. It’s fiction, get it? Give us a payoff or payout for tolerating the script dialogue that we all know people don’t speak like this. It looks good on paper, but rolling off lips sounds fake and stiff. I couldn’t recommend this and DEFINITELY NOT a movie you’d ever want to watch again.

I only watched it bc I saw that Julia Garner starred in it. Loved her in Ozark. Idk why I didn’t pull up the reviews first. “Assistant” a gigantic waste of time. Entire movie was extremely boring, beyond depressing and then suddenly the credits started rolling. No resolution to the ending. It’s low budget and it shows. My advice: don’t waste your time. I rarely post reviews, but if I can save one person from suffering through it, I can spare a few more minutes posting this. One star is generous.

Insane gag sights. All star cast was worth watching. Silly beyond words. Watch with friends for maximum laughs.

I enjoy looking back 25 years at hi-profile celebs in movies but this film was historically very inaccurate. Either the acting or the script made it stiff and showed the director didn’t know how to address problem. I love watching movies of this period but this is miscasted and not authentically rugged as the West would. Cleaned up, modernized version, more like a series made for TV. I usually love Ali Larter in other roles but she was way too modernized and beautiful to be in this movie. Her put-on 19th century accent was so phony that I cringed listening to her.

I never read other people’s 3⭐️ ratings about movies … I’m only interested in the 1s and 5s because those represent the reviews which speak passion or aggravation of wasting 90 minutes of their lives, but I can’t give this movie either of those. I did stick with the movie until the end. Our antagonist raised his ugly head at the very beginning, but there is definitely a big twist at the end, (( the twist doesn’t make any sense in hindsight, BUT don’t dwell on it too long or you’ll drive yourself crazy.)) Greed is always at the center of a good mystery/detective story and this movie doesn’t deviate from that formula. I didn’t read anything prior about this movie before I started it, it just caught my eye on Tubi. A few minutes into the movie, I thought it was going to go in the direction of Sci-Fi genre, and green men were responsible for the town’s problem, but eventually it circled back around … NOT Sci-Fi at all; just greed. Some acting was more than horrendous, but I didn’t let it assuage me from watching it. It was an interesting but extremely low-budget movie. It moved along. It’s probably going to be somewhat of a cult-following movie.

As far as ‘zombie’ movies go, it was definitely watchable. It is a cross between vampire and zombie creatures who move incredibly fast! Very intense when our protagonists went deep down into their lair to kill them in the dark basement. No shortage of hordes of extras attacking. Lots of mail-biting action. Johnny Strong is good.

As with people whose conversations with perfect strangers turn to negative talk about their spouses, avoid them AND this movie at all costs. Almost from the beginning scene, you’re telegraphed the story line.

Regrettably, I spent money to see it in theatre. Stayed to bitter end, but it was so hard to watch. “Chewing-up-scenery”acting. I couldn’t wait until the end. Was in middle of the row, so it would have been rude to climb over ppl to leave early. Taught me to sit on aisle in future, or better yet, wait for DVD to come out and rent or borrow from library which is free. Time wasted is all this movie is worth!