Ash Reviews

5.5/10

Ash is a stylish sci-fi thriller with Eiza González and Aaron Paul. It looks amazing and has a cool soundtrack, but the story feels slow and familiar. Great visuals, weak plot.

I was so disappointed with this…

You know, it’s a very used genre but it’s always interesting to see what would happen is pace with aliens, so I was excited for this.

Somehow, even though I didn’t like the movie, it passed so quickly… I thought the ending scene was the 3/4 of the movie and we were about to see something bigger and badder but no…

The movie is missing so much substance, there’s nothing to it, just the idea of it, and a bad script, it’s missing the whole pulp of the film.

Cinematography was great… but not fit for a film, certain parts look like a commercial (if you see it, I think you know what I’m talking about) and others look like they would fit great in a music video… not a film, none of it is realistic.

Who the fuck though the rainbow lights were a good idea?? Very cool to see, wrong film, wrong choice, give us red emergency lights.

Now to the production design. I think it looked great, the interiors were minimal and realistic, although seen over and over again (there is a reason) it works.

Aaron Paul, I love you man, you can do so much better, they just put you there to put face for the movie, totally wasting your presence and talent, makes me very sad, and you know what, it worked, I came to see you cause I haven’t seen you in a while.

CGI: I get it, it’s expensive and we’re trying to be cheap, but cheap can be masked, this is just lousy work, you want some advice? When a ship is landing, don’t make it to be like there are no particles flying around, it’s weird, put the particles in, and mask the fact that it’s bad cgi, literally big productions do it and get away with it…

Lastly, I was so goddamn disappointed, I came off of a hype train after watching alien Romulus and wanted more. I learned that more is not always good.

If you haven’t watched Alien Romulus, watch that instead of this, you’ll thank me later

What in the intergalactic migraine did I just watch? For how pretty the almost cyberpunk cinematography and effects are, it's amazing how much I managed to dislike this. I was into the eeriness, but I really don't think this should have been a horror film. Mostly because the sound design and practicality feel wasted on attempts to jump scare and confuse, when all it does is annoy and fall into cliché after cliché. Sci-fi, especially in the mystery that is space, is the perfect excuse for nonsensical concepts. Instead, it's nearly always parasitic aliens and people losing their minds.

painfully mid. quite literally only getting like rating for the color scheme and cinematography. truthfully, the acting was pretty awful, but the lines they were given were worse. and they were acting the FUCKKKK out of those bunk ass lines bruh. had such high hopes for this-

I liked the third act and colorful aesthetics, but aside from that this was disappointing. Very narratively lost despite a common plot line.

3.5

This movie was trying to be alien but fell way short. Kind of boring . Pass on this and watch alien

got that evil bisexual lightning…
it was alright, there were some cool visuals but it needed just a bit more substance to be great (sometimes the cgi looked like a bad video game though)
yeah idk, it was simultaneously better and worse than i thought it was gonna be 🤔

smh y’all wanna be Alien so bad but u will simply never be that girl. it is a shame Sigourney was alive to see this.

wtf good ideas and concepts but so badly executed not everything needs to be experimental sometimes its good to stick to the proven to be good tactics 4/10

Mixed feelings. The colours and effects were really cool. The plot kinda fell apart a bit towards the end, like full switch and then it got super trippy and I kept thinking it was finally over and it wasn’t.
Loved the main actress though.

decent but it doesnt rlly stand out and is quite forgettable

5.0/10
this movie tried to be unique while doing something that’s been done like literally 10 individual times over by this point - aaron paul was a nice touch

Couldn’t get into it may have to watch again

good theme, better than I thought it would be

Hell yeah. Psychological, stressful, violent, and disgusting in all the right ways

Ehhhh

5/10 it’s a crazy visual film. But the plot is weak and had a weird concept

Rating: 5.9/10 ⭐️

I expected a standard rescue thriller, but it leans way harder into trippy psychological horror.

What Worked:
Flying Lotus nailed the synth score, building heavy dread. Filming in a real New Zealand factory gives the station a super gritty texture. Eiza González anchors the chaotic script, giving the wild sci-fi a solid emotional core.

The Cuts:
Wandering the empty station having flashbacks meant the middle part really dragged for me. Through my faith and flag lens, the themes are super bleak. Calling humanity an “inefficient life form” meant to be consumed is a depressing worldview I can't get behind. Plus, the third act derails into weird action and a frustrating cliffhanger.

Verdict:
A moody thriller bogged down by amnesia tropes and a bleak outlook. Skip it if you want an uplifting story with a clean resolution.

Favorite Line: “The revelation of advanced alien life comes before finding out what happened.”

enjoyable, trippy, cosmic horror but i left the movie with multiple questions

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