And right off the bat, I absolutely loved this film. This is one of those films that just felt was made for me. It has everything I love squished into one film; adventure, humour, monsters, action. Just my thing all over and that is probably the best thing about this film. If you're into that sort of thing, this film is just pure escapism and has fantastic worldbuilding. This film creates an interesting dystopian world that you'd probably like to explore yourself.
I also really liked the concept and execution of the story. Combining a love story with a monster movie does sound very cliched and overdone but what this film does well with it is helps us buy into the relationships and chemistry of the characters and surprises us with other means of a love story. So whilst it's essentially a love story between a man and woman, it also becomes a love story between a man and his dog and being a dog lover, I can relate to that so much.
The cast is also really good. Dylan O'Brien is just a fantastic as he always is. It feels like he went back to his Teen wolf roots because he provides so much humour with his funny one liners and his non hero status. Jessica Henwick and Michael Rooker (who seems to be in everything these days) are also good in their roles with their limited screen time but my heart went towards the dog Boy in this film. Unlike other films, this film treats Boy like he's an actual character and not just an extra. He helps when he needs to, he has his own personality and best of all, he's just so adorable.
I also liked the main characters development along the films journey. He avoids classic action hero cliches and instead stays true to his own personality and fights for survival in his own unique way whilst becoming a stronger character as he goes along. And whilst the action isn't the forefront of the film, it's very nicely handled and well staged at times.
And as this is a monster movie, you got to talk about the monsters and I loved what how they looked, how they were designed, how they were used and not overused but what also impressed me was essentially how they were created. I won't spoil it since I don't know if this was revealed in the trailer but when we learn about how these creatures were created, when you stop and think about it, it's the most realistic and creative solution. There's also a few twists about certain monsters that is cleverly foreshadowed for the third act.
Finally there's a nice amount of emotion in this film that feels used enough to stay true to the tone and also contributes to the development of Dylan O'Briens character.
Onto the mixed aspect of the film and the only thing is the use of Michael Rookers character. I really liked him in this film but he doesn't have a lot of screentime and there was times I actually missed his screen presence once he was no longer onscreen so I wish his role was extended quite a bit.
The only negative I have with this film is there's a couple of plot conveniences that occur where things happen just because the script requires it and I wish the film had found a way to avoid that little tropes.
But overall I loved this film. It's fun, it's adventurous, it's has good monster action and it's just such a good time and I think this is definitely going to be in my top 10 of this year. Usually I get worried about films getting sequels to then but I would be up for this to get a sequel and even becoming a franchise.
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