john muckelbauer

The first half of the movie is pretty interesting - complicated histories and relationships among the 6 or so characters of this ensemble film. But then, inexplicably, all that complexity just evaporates and turns this into an action movie, with incredibly forced twists and no real sense of exploration at all. Mostly a very disappointing movie

It’s definitely a “thinker” movie in the “art film” tradition as almost nothing happens (plot wise) and the little that does happen makes no sense. So it’s not about the “story” at all - but the characters (All of whom are very unreliable), The philosophical dialogue, setting, scenes, etc. Contrary to the reviews it’s not a “horror” movie in the usual sense - it def uses the tropes of horror, but in this case it’s Way more “existential dread and despair” - nothing scary or macabre about it