Under the Skin (2014)

Who payed the critics

Best movie ever!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The worst part about the movie, isn't the incredibly slow scenes.. where you are shouting at the film "OKAY I GET IT!! MOVE ON!!" It's that you WANT to watch the actual movie!! It's like you're waiting on the film to start and it never truly does. Instead you are stuck staring at clouds and listening to piano music. Is the music pretty? Yes. But am I watching this film FOR the music? No. I want to see some aliens. I want to see more of the story. I don't need bombs exploding to get my attention, but I DO need more than the same scene repeated over and over.. and over.. and over. I mean- essentially we just stare at ScarJo's body and face the entire time with no real progression to the story line.That's not a problem, because she is beautiful.. right? It's really low hanging fruit to just have naked people in a movie for the sake of having naked people in a movie. I assume anyone watching this movie and "LOVING" it.. just really loves to see some boobies/booties and everything in between. And everyone else is trying to just be as pretentious as the director. I have seen art in movies.. and real, *moving* music paired with really emotional scenes. This was just.. so boring. So .. so boring. I found myself wanting to open my tablet and check my email.. go make another coffee. It could not hold my attention and I usually love indie films. This one just did not do it for me.

Spoiler alert. The movie intrigued me enough that I bought and read the book. If you read the book, you will see why the movie could not and did not follow it more closely. In the book, Isserley was a 4-legged animal (highly advanced ape, I think) modified by extensive and painful surgery into something a person who was not looking very hard could think a human. In the book, Isserley's victims didn't disappear into a pool of black liquid; Isserley's workmates prepared them in a lengthy and gruesome process. There were no motorcycles in the book. There was no abandoned house in the book. There was a spaceship in the book. Isserley managed to kill the rapist in the book. As usual for me, after reading a science fiction, I found the movie - well - different. However, Scarlett Johansen pulled it off masterfully, as she always seems to do.

I thought this was an absolutely awful movie. You'd have to pay me to sit through this trash again.

Headline says it all...Even Scarlett Johanson has looked better...I couldn't make heads or tails outta this POS...Stay away