There's an interesting idea somewhere in Rupture. It has a quality cast and a director who has done some interesting work. Noomi Rapace seems perfect for the material. The cinematography is good. There's some interesting coloring and some good visual design. It just needed a third act or might have been better served by being a shorter anthology episode of something.
The more I have thought about the film since seeing it, the more I've realized that there is an interesting commentary on humanity and society going on. This is part of what's disappointing though, as a finer line might have been drawn under it and the film might not have spent so much time wandering air vents and speculating about how people hold themselves back with preoccupations of mundane terrors.
The first half hour is compelling and the last twenty minutes get interesting too, but the middle has more than its share of redundant moments and gets a bit tedious. Rapace spends too much of it tied to a bed, and honestly, the whole fear of spiders thing doesn't translate well to the audience.
It's an interesting little sci fi horror film with a couple of nice performances and the more you think about it, the more sense it makes. But i just wished there was a little more there, that if the film had tightened itself up, fixed the script, added a little more to the story, faced its own fears in effect, it might have been something special. And yet, it is the sort of underachiever everyone agrees has potential.
The more I have thought about the film since seeing it, the more I've realized that there is an interesting commentary on humanity and society going on. This is part of what's disappointing though, as a finer line might have been drawn under it and the film might not have spent so much time wandering air vents and speculating about how people hold themselves back with preoccupations of mundane terrors.
The first half hour is compelling and the last twenty minutes get interesting too, but the middle has more than its share of redundant moments and gets a bit tedious. Rapace spends too much of it tied to a bed, and honestly, the whole fear of spiders thing doesn't translate well to the audience.
It's an interesting little sci fi horror film with a couple of nice performances and the more you think about it, the more sense it makes. But i just wished there was a little more there, that if the film had tightened itself up, fixed the script, added a little more to the story, faced its own fears in effect, it might have been something special. And yet, it is the sort of underachiever everyone agrees has potential.