Pontypool (2003)
Sixteenth review is for a Canadian movie that randomly was suggested to me on IMDB and it caught my eye. Claustrophobia, auditory stimulation, radio, off screen death, eerie, virus, zombies. Includes #spoilers :
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Pontypool (2003) Pros: Wow this had so many great moments, did well with a claustrophobic setting and adding more characters to heighten the stress level. Also the intro was fantastic.
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Cons: The pros were very good BUTTTTT this had the issue that The Happening had, vague virus and the explanation we got was so randomly explained away with no depth. Words being infected sounds like a great concept, but it lost me at how he cured the girl in the end and then they tried to relay that information over the radio but in such a clunky way, and in English. English was infected only? The DOCTOR came in and he literally could have been anybody off the street. He had no significance for real, he just seemed like a sleazy conman type, just shifty. Its hard to rate this one cuz the ending just killed it for me. The kiss and homeboy main character starts trying to redefine words on the radio? I think if I read this in the original book form I’d have a little more reverence, first seeing it in my imagination and then on screen, but that ending just felt like I was kicked out of a party because I didn’t know the host. I was having fun and now I feel like an intruder who doesn’t get to continue to have the fun I was having earlier.
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I’d give it a 4-5. The intro makes it not a 3, but the complete second half was like what in the damn hell, shorty had to think Kill means Kiss? When it cut off I was like, Get this the fuck far away from me. I still would recommend it because so many things happened that were exciting, and I’m glad I watched it, I would not watch again cuz once is enough.
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