Hope

holy set design.

i have so much to say & process.

was very much looking forward to this. like almost as much as odyssey and dune iii. that’s how stoked i was for this film.

luckily i had the chance to see it 2 days before the release. so here we go…

first of all. can we praise how fucking incredible the set design is in this film… that first act was fucking cinema. truly spectacular, every corner of the streets of hope were absolutely terrifying. so much blood, dead corpses, destruction, you could feel the horror of the mysterious monster before it was even revealed. which i fucking loved btw.

phenomenal camera work, cinematography. the camera dep + the production design team absolutely deserve an oscar bc holy shit it was visually terrifying and beautiful all in one.

stoked to see hoyeon from squid games in this, she absolutely ate her roll. like wow. she deserves more films.

hwang was a funny ass cop, great performance

zo in was a straight up bad ass.

now for the ugly, which was disappointing ngl.

vfx. i could hardly watch how bad the monster / alien whatever you wanna call it. like truly horrendous visual effects. meg 2 had better vfx than this shit. like come on…

now in terms of storytelling, yes there’s just a lot of adrenaline packed into it. but what really tilted me was the fact that the old man… forgot his name… the one that was shitting in the woods… said he witnessed “3” monsters… the same one that massacred the entire town right…. and then some avatar meets fucking resident evil licker looking motherfucker who can apparently take 10 fucking grenade launchers to the face and not die… shows up to the party when clearly we just saw there were 3 more of the same ones…. like what?!?!

that just really threw me off and truly hurt my watch especially after how fucking good the first act was before they got to the woods.

idk man, i really want to love this film, but it just felt rushed after the first act. like someone decided to change the entire look of the first monster during filming.

overall my heart was pumping out of my chest + had some great laughs and it definitely deserves some love, but it just flopped towards the end imo.

bummer, but hope part ii delivers better.

( ps. wait till the credits roll before leaving )

8.8 / 10

can we change the ending lmaoo

When nature called, she yelled

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It was pretty good and fun to watch in the theater, the movie changes a lot the last 30 minutes or so but it was a fun way to spend the afternoon overall.