Review of Monsters

Monsters (2010)
4/10
Good idea but illogical characters
23 November 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Potentially a really good film, but like so many films it is totally spoiled by characters who do stupid things for the sake of the plot.

She just whined all the time, yelling for him when any half intelligent person would have shut up to avoid attracting attention. They meander around and stop to look at the sights when any sensible person would route march. She gives him her passport when any sensible person would have kept it on their person at all times. He gets drunk when any sensible person would stay sober and alert. They leave their bags and possessions lying around instead of carrying them at all times, even when surrounded by unknown and potentially hostile "guides". Then finally, at the end, when they're being rescued from the murderous aliens, she whines "I don't want to go home"!

You get the picture. You spend more than half the time wanting to slap them, and yell at them to stop being airheads. It only gets 4/10 because the idea is interesting, and it's well filmed, and it's not a standard alien shoot-em-up. The acting / script don't even deserve 1/10.
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