Reviews

Despite an all-star cast and established directors and a good budget, the movie manages to be very much of the "low" side of mediocre. Yes, it has all the things you'd expect; action, shoot-outs, a bad guy who is very nasty but despite all of that, it managed to be very lackluster. The movie doesn't all-out suck but it falls so very far short of where I think a movie with that cast, crew and budget should be that it sucks.

This is topped off by something that is increasingly not just poor, but infuriating and, frankly starts to become insulting. In the same way Hollywood, even in 2022, portrays anything to do with computers as an army of monitors and complete gibberish flying over all the screens, Hollywood continues to think all European cities are a 20 minute drive away from all the other European cities. I am sorry to inform Hollywood of this, but Europe is geographically quite similarly sized as the USA and has about 50% more population. You don't drive much of anywhere in 20 minutes. Berlin to Vienna? 8 hours without traffic; it's the same as Boston to Washington DC.

How hard is it really to portray every-day things more realistically?

In general, the movie is 'OK', although I'd recommend drinking while you do, so that you are less sober toward the end of the movie.

The acting doesn't spoil the movie. Quite the opposite, it's good. What makes the movie troublesome is how shallow and poorly thought through the storyline is. So 'Vesps' are blind and orient only by sound. The hard reality is that they would die outside in the wild. Animals would make sounds and all be wiped out. Sounds are everywhere; the wind blows = sound. Water flowing = sound.

Also they are found in a cave and then in short order (weeks) the USA is decimated... it is not possible for a species that size to reproduce so rapidly as to cause that. Biology is still subject to the laws of physics and you just cannot give birth to that many creatures in that short a time period. The material that makes them has to come from somewhere... and that just takes time.

And then the seeming inability of anyone in government to coordinate any resistance when quite ordinary people figure out the weakness instantly? I know movies are about the suspension of disbelief, but some plots really push this a little too far...Just put up sirens, nets etc.

But that is actually nothing compared to the last third of the movie when the 'nut jobs' enter the scene (the reverend of the cult).... what the actual f..k? Up to that point the movie was 'so-so', but that just pushed the movie from 6-7/10 stars to 4/10. From Dusk till Dawn handled the plot-break rather well. But this movie didn't.