Hostile is the film of the young director Mathieu Turi (his first full-length work), he also acted as a screenwriter. The film's action takes place approximately in our time. The apocalypse has happened and most of the world's population is dying out, but new creatures appear, something that looks like a zombie from the movie I am a legend. The main character Julia goes on a mission to the city to search for food. Afterwards, she goes to the camp to survive people, but on the way she gets into an accident and breaks her leg. She remains completely alone in an inverted trailer with a broken leg and revolver, and only enemies around.
This picture can be divided into two parts: the world of the apocalypse and the past of the main character. Between these parts the timing of the film was divided. Everything that happens during flashbacks of the main character is very boring, cloying and annoying crap. It is impossible to observe this. In flashbacks, they show us how the main character met her boyfriend. The guy is all so kind, cultured, caring and successful, fell in love with the girl at first sight, so perfect and blah blah blah ... And the main character is the complete opposite: it is pricking, selling drugs, behaving like a moody child.
Observe their relationship is hell. Such a maximally primitive, cloyingly sweet dialogue, no chemistry between the characters. I was so flushed with whims, that's serious. Dialogues at the level of 50 shades of gray.
The second part, how Julia survives, I liked it. There is an acting game, some atmosphere. I liked the make-up of monsters, given that the budget for the film is not particularly large. Experiencing, watching the main character. But this is given as a whole about half the film, and about the other half I told you already - disgusting flashbacks.
The final story twist is not very. I understand what the director wanted to say. He talks about this throughout the film, but somehow it does not fit in with what we saw throughout the struggle of the main character. There is an obvious contradiction between what we were shown and the fact that we were revealed by the plot twist. Is he surprised? Yes. Is there any common sense in this? No.
It seems to me that the director slightly overestimated his capabilities, taking up both the script and the direction. It would be better for the script to deal with other, more experienced people. Then flashbacks could be less sugary, more approximate to real life and a twist could be made more grounded. Remove several scenes from the movie that contradict this twist, or in general, in principle, remove this twist and then the film as a whole would not become worse.
Summarize. The film Hostile rather I did not like. I experienced very contradictory feelings. The picture is too uneven to give an unambiguous answer. In the sense that it was interesting enough for me to watch the attempts to survive the main character, but it was impossible to look at her past. So it turns out that 50% of the film standards, and 50% crap. Assessments of critics have not yet arrived, for that is the assessment of ordinary viewers and they are very positive. My rating of the film is 5 out of 10. I advise you to skip this premiere, but if you are interested in the trailer and the subject and you decided to watch this film one way or another, maximally lower your expectations, for this is not a horror story about a zombie apocalypse. It is rather a personal drama of one hero.
Thank you for attention!
