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I saw this the other night and I was impressed.
The child actors din't make you want to kill them. The brutality was. Very. The CGI actually bore watching and was not the only point about the film. The people making the film are amongst the first to realise that you need more than the CGI. It gave the audience a ghost who caould actually stand being looked at full on without looking silly (see Resident Evil's licker), and although it stripped the figure of some of it's terror generating power, by the time it shows up fully the kid has stopped being afraid of it.
The story worked well against the Spanish Civil War background, but never needed to to over explain it.It came across as just another setting here this could work as opposed to hammering some political point across (apart form the traditional 'wars hurt kids' one). It looked good and was good to watch, slow burning until the explosive finale, and even then not just explosions for the hell of it. These were deeply unsettling shots of human pain and misery brought about by an understandable greed. The people were fully rounded and had motivations behind their actions and the voiceover at the close did not make me puke in the same way as Jean Reno's at the end of Ronin almost did.
I rather liked it. |
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