Those problems are at the core of Gaurav Seth’s indie film, in which a student experiment exploring the coexistence of multiple planes spins out of control: This is what happens when STEM education spills from physics into metaphysics.Ī car accident at the very beginning is just one in a cascade of consequences and choices, many of them deeply personal for the students. Has there ever been a movie where hopscotching between dimensions went smoothly? The various strands and timelines tend not to interact in harmonious ways, creating headaches for everybody involved (including screenwriters trying to overcome niggling paradoxes). Naturally for such an unabashed exercise in pulp fiction, the ending invites a sequel. The film is big, loud, boisterous and proudly nutty. Good thing a badass warrior played by Tony Jaa (from the “Ong-Bak” series) is there to lend a hand. Every time a beastie goes down, a bigger one pops up. Jovovich’s Captain Artemis finds herself marooned in a strange landscape packed with bloodthirsty creatures, which she must defeat if she ever wants to go home. Anderson, one of the best action directors around.īased on a video game, as is so often the case with Anderson, the film is essentially an extended dash-and-fight sequence. If this makes you laugh - I did - by all means cue up the preposterously entertaining latest by Jovovich and her husband, Paul W.S. This “Monster Hunter” is the one in which a feline cook, the Meowscular Chef, prepares a meal Benihana-style for a crew of desert pirates led by Ron Perlman, who then asks a flabbergasted Milla Jovovich: “What’s the matter? You don’t have cats in your world?”
If you thought drone attacks were bad, wait until you see what autonomous robots that were built to kill are capable of.ĭo not confuse this movie with the schlocky (in a bad way) “Monster Hunters.” The film’s ruthlessness in killing off almost every character, including women and children, may feel exploitative, but there is honesty in showing the full range of casualties caused by American weaponry. They don’t have a problem with black ops involving secret weapons until things go haywire, and “Monsters of Man” is quite good at describing the techies’ hubris and utter lack of morals, as well as their terminal naïveté: What did they think they were building, exactly? Not that the trio’s handlers are any better. Three computer nerds run what they think is a navigation test involving four mechanical soldiers being airdropped into a jungle in the Golden Triangle. Mark Toia’s film is set during the pivotal moment when the creature escapes its maker - in this case, when military robots acquire the ability to think for themselves, go rogue and decide to kill everything in sight.
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