Anon Nymous

This started out well. A holiday scene in a beautiful location. My type of film. Something to carry me away from the concrete greyness of city life. Things turned darker as the film progressed. OK. I expected that in order to move the narrative along. But the final stretch was just perplexing. Histrionic and melodramatic, yes. But not quite sure if that makes it a 'horror' film (it's not a genre I'm that familiar with). What the story lacks - in spades - is a motive. We have no idea why the hosts act as they do. Perhaps they'd lived troubled lives which may have helped to explain their actions, but IF that was the case, it went unexplored. I'd put this in the same category as Alex Garland's recent film 'Men', which also falls in the final act and, in so doing,makes you question everything you watched that preceded it. Disappointing - to say the least.

I caught the hype so decided to check this movie out. I have to say it's probably one the dullest films I've ever seen. I can't believe they took an interesting real life story and managed to make it so boring. But there we are. I heard that Gaga's acting was good but she seemed very wooden to me, and wasn't able to imbue her character with any warmth or humanity - she seemed very one dimensional so I didn't care about her story arc as time went by. And it was a LOT of time. Like, almost three hours. So long to say so little. All the advance publicity doesn't feel justified and I'd say it's probably the biggest movie disappointment of the year. The fact that reviews were embargoed until pretty much the last minute, should have been a clue and I wish I'd now listened to my instinct. One for the Razzies.