Review of Monsters

When the closing titles appear a friend of mine said out loud 'What the hell' and i was able to feel the rest of the audience share in his disappointment. It appeared to me more like a road trip movie with an alien invasion as a sub-plot, not what people expect are want to see out of something called Monsters, the monsters themselves were also a bore they looked like big glowing octopuses that sounded like a whale. Monsters was more like The Motorcycle Diaries or Sideways instead of a War of the Worlds type of film, Motorcycle Diaries and Sideways are two films which i adore and are two of my favourites films ever, i probably wouldn't be saying that if aliens were thrown into the story.

The problem with Monsters is how throughout the film we are given a build up of suspense we are aware from the start that the two characters are going to meet peril with the aliens and we see the build up to the start and that build up is just a complete let down as the first two minutes are the most exciting or only exciting parts of the entire film.

Monsters does though have some positives though mostly the cinematography by the director Gareth Edwards (who did show potential to me) but considering the lack excitement he should have given us more emotion towards the characters. But Monsters isn't a drama its a sci-fi and should be treated as a sci-fi and this film lacks in whats most important to a sci-fi film and that is the excitement.