“He’s here… Neil is still here. I can feel it.”
Or
“I’m out of time, baby.”

Elemental. Once and still now seen as one of the genre's sleekest and most efficient crime sagas, action movies and lock-focused psychology of two strong-willed musing individuals. reworked as a hard-boiled Mann idiosyncratic two-hander whilst also a tough melodramatic soap opera, packed in with a runtime's worth of law, order, decaying relationships, and codes of honour.

Sensitively and effortlessly drawn out in a larger,…

“There is no government.”
“There’s always a government.”

Boyle and Garland took a handful of populist and engaging genre media (Night of the Living Dead, The Day of the Triffids & Resident Evil on GameCube) and rearranged them as a disoriented piece of crippling dread and panic attack digital image-making. Still being completely arrested as a high school kid by all its digitised tactility; the various infected (and falling blood drop!!) POV shots or the excruciating sound design of the…

“Never looked at this place through that lens.”

Extra crispy. M. Night pulls from everything, from Snake Eyes to Friday the 13th Part 2 in a resurfacing for a locked-location, ever-evolving manhunt. Personally see this a perfect finale to Shyamalan’s trilogy of projected parental anxieties along with Old and Knock at the Cabin (new favourite trilogy?!). Hartnett channelling physiological suburbia dad, bopping to the rhythm of FBI dialogue over a police scanner, treating murderous tendencies as a consuming alter ego lifestyle,…