A product of its time, in a good way.

I am so surprised that I hadn't already reviewed this. Considering also that my dissertationwas based on Zombies in film. Yes yes, they're technically not "zombies", but for all intensive purposes, they really are.

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland create a fairly rare, original story that enhances and evolves the brilliance already crafted by the "Godfather of the Dead", George Romero.

Watching this for the fourth or fifth time now, and…

So anti-climax, so devoid of emotion.

The last of the franchise. You'd suppose a heavy-hitter. Action akin to Fallout, spectacle akin to Ghost Protocol; well you'd think wrong.

I'd previously read that although this film is poor, it's "a love letter" to the franchise. Huh? Did I miss something? It doesn't even feel like M:I in most places.

McQuarrie and Cruise craft these films for stunts, and (apparently) action. The spectacle of stunts have spotlit the franchise in big ways,…

I was fortunate enough to see 'El Llanto' (The Wailing) at the London Film Festival, at the Prince Charles Cinema. Although the experience there wasn't brilliant, the film definitely rectified that with how decent it was, bar the ending.

Portrayed as a psychological horror, The Wailing has a contemporary formula setup as three comprising stories that co-exist to form a grander narrative - which is greatly understandable and perfectly practiced.

Brilliant cinematography is noticable with one-shots here and there, pursuing…

The pedestal this is on, doesn't warrant the buzz. Sorry.

This is a good film, don't get me wrong. And the fact that it is a purely original film, gives it high merit. Maybe my ceiling was too high given how well its been reviewed - most revered "horror" this century.

Coogler does a fantastic job at storytelling. Creating this world that has oppression in many forms is great, the allegory is overtly obvious that needs to be explained heavily...…