The Rift (2016)
The satellite has vanished and the only clue is a trail leading to a small village nestled on the outskirts of forest line. As the team begins to investigate they quickly discover that something else came back from space, something not of this world. As their time runs out, the team must battle to unlock the terrifying truth behind the ill-fated mission.
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Too much of everything
This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
Highly Overrated But Still Good
The acting in this movie is really good.
This movie kind of wants to be a Roadside Picnic knockoff with a dash of Lovecraft ("death is dead"). I watch a lot of B-level sci-fi and horror. It would have been fine for that. The lead actress does a great job. Actually, if I were her, I'd be *pissed*. Because the movie is rendered unwatchable by the music.It's like the guy doing the score thought that the movie was really just a venue for him to perform his music. The music is just totally over-bearing and has nothing at all to do with what the characters are doing. At one point, they're driving in a car, having a mundane conversation meant to give us some important character backstory. The music is this crazy, heavy, undulating acid-guitar riffs. They're just talking! Have some soft string instruments in the background!I'd say don't watch this, but really you should watch it for about 10 min just to see how absurd this is. I've never seen a movie so thoroughly destroyed by the music. The guy isn't even a bad musician. It's just that he clearly didn't care about whatever was going on in the movie and wanted it to be about him. Again, if I were the lead actress, I'd be pissed.
Two biggest peeves about this movie: 1) This movie introduces the main characters as secret agents that portray specific characteristics but they act as though they were random people that found themselves in a strange situation. Examples (no spoilers): °The woman shoots someone then screams as though she can't believe what she has done. °They yell and talk loudly when 'enemies' are nearby instead of ANYTHING ELSE (ie, hand signals, eye movements, head gestures, WHISPERING MAYBE????). °They act on emotions and impulse rather than maybe idk...SECRET AGENT training. °The OCD control freak secret agent does nothing during any part of the movie to be labeled as such - in fact, he does things outside of that behavior (leaves a gun on the table after clearing a room, acts illogically during a crucial moment, yells when he should BE QUIET, etc. 2) Use of the soundtrack. °Intense music shows up in the wrong places and then stays far longer than necessary.
Science-less science fiction with no point and little coherence. I suppose I should have been warned by the sorta nonsensical title but the credits at the beginning depict the moon rotating in space and clearly depict the reality that the moon has no "dark side" but rather a day /night cycle just like the earth; just longer. Alas, I should have remembered that sfx sequences are often done by people smarter and/or more interested in accuracy than the film-makers. There are some good scenes at the very beginning which provide background on the main character, but it's all downhill from there. Characters behave bizarrely, even before the story begins to depend on bizarre events to propel it. The music is eccentric and often... Well, the word bizarre keeps coming to mind. Honestly, I had to skip over large parts of the film, which was annoying me too much to endure, but I am absolutely certain I didn't miss anything that would have rendered it interesting or meaningful.
I wanted to like this but couldn't stay with it because of the disjointed, completely disturbing soundtrack.