Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Monsters (2010)


Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.

Refreshingly idiosyncratic sci-fi road movie uses the term aliens in both senses of the word (the USA even has built a large wall on the Mexican border!), but the low budget shows with the monster scenes held mostly in dark, and the human interest in the story is quite limited.

Maltin**1/2: "Unusually conceived, ultra-low-budget is surprisingly intelligent and occasionally suspenseful, though it's overlong, inconclusive, and the acting level varies sharply. Still, an impressive debut..."

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