Monsters (12A)

I found this film hypnotising a lot of the way through, the best and most moving example being the 2 'creatures' apparently making love at the gas station near the end of the film. I found that scene quite beautiful and I liked the main characters. They had faults, as we all do, but they were both products of their own culture and respective upbringings. Surely there was a message in there somewhere about the contrasting poverty in Mexico and the affluence of the USA, who weren't shown helping the Mexican 'aliens', rather being more intent on guarding their own borders. How much damage and death was due to the creatures and how much to American air strikes? Caulder refers to one such air strike during the film. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I wondered whether 'Monsters' of the title refers to more than the creatures themselves. In this sense I tend to agree with dragster in that I think the script could have been better. However, perhaps we are meant to think and draw our own conclusions.

Hated the lead actors and characters. Massive plot holes. I'd have been perfectly happy just to see the last fifteen minutes, but even then, you half expected Richard Herring to pop up and say "Aahhhhhh, see, not like you thought you nazi!".

What a romantic monster film. I'm in tears. Enjoyed it even more than The Host. Which is brilliant.

I was bored. I wanted the monsters to eat the lead actors after the first half hour, and would have been happy if Julia Bradbury had taken their place and completed the walk. CGI was good, but I am not interested in how the film is made - not.

The dialogue in this is awful, the acting is wooden, the script is boring and unrealistic. What a waste of time.

No one seems to be bothered by the small inconsistency of the film set on the border region between US and Mexico - an area characterised almost entirely by arid desert plains and moutnains - and the action taking place largely amid rain forest or the nonsense of finding a jungle-covered Maya temple on the Rio Grande? Otherwise an intersting, original and unusual film

Not a bad story with good supporting actors, and great scenery and atmosphere. Great effects, but I walked out because the dialogue could have been written better by an eleven year old, and the two american spoilt brat lead charaters were simply too much to stomach. Avoid this film.

Ummm. I liked the locations/sets, thought the supporting cast performed admirably and that the two leads did well enough ASSUMING that you were not supposed to have any sympathy for either of them, the photojerk being depicted as somebody I would not want to touch with yours and the (forced engagement?) poor-little-rich-girl being a non-entity. My problem with the film is that, given the setting, the story was trivial, did not exibit any logic and did not come to any normal conclusion. Since the octopii did not seem to have any ranged powers why did not the girl fly home? Why was there not more explanation of why the octopii were not dealt with quickly by conventional forces? Where were all the intermediate sized monsters (in vast quantities given the copious fungal/egg-sacks)? Why were the monster supposedly confined to Mexico given that they were amphibious and had already reached the coast? I'm all for the theory that an SF film can have a ridiculous premise, but that the story should develop rationally from that point but this film is devoid of any such logic. Comparisons with Cloverfield and District 9? Cloverfield agreed, another crap film that provides no explanations but which does at least have the decency to kill off all the useless characters that have been introduced. District 9 is in a different league, I would look forward to continuation of that story. As it is I look back at Monsters and declare it to be a waste of time, a shame since with a different script it is obvious that the crew could have produced something worthwhile.

I found it an engaging and interesting take on an alien theme, Good .

Liked the fact that it took a different perspective than other 'alien' type movies. Envolving alot of time towards the main characters which was nice but the title MONSTERS is misleading.3* at most but can relate to other reviews being 1 or two stars