The Guest

24 October

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The film had a promising description, and an intriguing beginning. At the same time, some of the footage seemed painfully familiar. I guess I've seen it on TV before. How could I forget such a finely tuned psychological thriller?

It's very simple. Somewhere after the middle of the movie, everything that happens on the screen rolls into an idiotic action movie. I won't say anything about the ending.

The background of what is happening with the main character, as well as his motivation, remain behind the scenes, apparently, according to the original idea, this was to serve as an invitation to the viewer to think up all the terrible horrors that happened to him in the army. However, the crooked ending and the abundance of missed opportunities to show how his actions affected the lives of individual people in the town leave the impression that this is not an invitation to reflection at all, but the banal laziness of the writers.

A trickster made from a great movie with fused potential.

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16 August 2022

28 October 2017

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A typical summer day. On the doorstep of an ordinary American family, he appears - a guest from nowhere. Posing as a military comrade of the deceased son, the hero easily and freely enters the family and is detained indefinitely.

The film almost immediately escalates the atmosphere of anxiety, but you do not understand for a long time what exactly it will turn out. But clearly, it is not a happy ending.

The main problem of this film is the semantic sagging. Motives, reasons, motives - as it were spoken and you can tick, which seems to be explained, but, in my opinion, stitched with white threads. And this film would have fallen into the category of boring and invisible, if not for a number of circumstances. To my taste, the main features of this film are music and the main character. It is not for nothing that some reviews draw an analogy with Drive, although it is largely relative. Here, our hero is also verbose and prefers to act rather than rattle his tongue. It’s also hard to tell if it’s a positive character or a negative character. Arguments can be made on both sides. And with Drive in something, this film shares a musical and visual series. And at first it is rather only music, but the final scenes are a triumph of directorial finds, strong action, visual series and the corresponding soundtrack. Musicians are advised to pay attention to the song Anthonio singer Annie. It's something amazing.

And when the film ends, out of habit you think that it was, as a feeling, mood, impression, meaning. And about the film The Guest I want to say that it goes on increasing and with a weak motivation of everything that happens, it is impossible to break away from this. Good secondary actors, especially the daughter played by Mikey Monroe. An actress with good potential for the future. I did not recognize Leland Orser as the father of the head of the family.

As a result, this film is not a pure action movie, not a mega thriller, but a kind of mixed phenomenon, but definitely very curious and for some reason I want to see the continuation.

And it is nice that the hero, with all restraint, inner danger, crazy look, is not without a sense of humor.

“Do I look like a guy who buys guys?”

8 out of 10

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