8 Remains (2018) Reviews

• Generous 3stars

  Nikar42018-12-01

  I'm not sure how to rank this film. I liked the basic plot. Girl meets domineering male who somehow traps her in his mind and she has to escape. I wish his ability had been explained better, more background was needed to bring characters to life and make us invest in them. There were massive plot holes as well. sometimes they were in her memories sometimes his but how or why they switched when he was supposedly in control was never really explained. Apparently in his memories what he says or wants just happens, but this isn't so for the female lead when in her memories? Again, not explained! He had how many victims and one minute they are separated by an invisible force then not. Somehow the lead is past, present and future.... I mean what? Story is all over the place and makes very little sense. The most convincing actress/ actor was his wife. This really could be a good movie if the story was straightened out, script adapted and a few decent more understated actors being hired. The concept itself reminds me of a few great movies but this is so far from great.

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• This is nonsense

  nogodnomasters2018-12-07

  Don't get too attached to Talli (Maja-Celiné Probst) because she is choked to death in the first scene. This is good because her acting was poor. OH WAIT! This is an existential film, sort of. So Talli, who can't read her poorly scripted dialogue is in every scene as we flashback to her miserable lie. The film would not have been too bad if Damian (Gregory B. Waldis ), the antagonist, had a sense of humor. Not worth the time. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Worth a punch on the hacker's card if you can make it all the way through it.

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• You will have no idea what's going on.

  iamthehollow2018-12-01

  This film is appalling...it has no sense of anything that would go into a good film. I have no idea what was happening from one excruciating minute to the next, we have actors who either don't act or totally overact...I am having a hard time remembering anything about it and I only just finished it. The director is trying for a mysterious atmosphere but only succeeds in making the viewer angry and impatient...for its quite brisk run time it's interminably long. I suppose the female audience might get something out of this...but I'm not a female audience and I thought it stank.

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• Something went wrong somewhere

  mjsreg2019-01-13

  I don't get how this film gained the high rating reviews here. It is difficult to specify any particular thing. I think it is the way the story is told and the fairly uninteresting way events unfold. There is no atmosphere. It is as though the shots were just shot without any thought to the content of the scene or how to invoke any kind of visual reinforcement of the action taking place or the emotions of the character. Perhaps under different artistic control the film would have been something else, something worth watching. But as it is it just doesn't cut it.

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• An intriguing film to watch

  michael-425252018-11-28

  A poetic story that's vividly colorful with visual effects that draw you into the screen and further into another world. Tally is stuck between realms as she fights to saeve herself from being smothered by her romantic, yet crazed lover, who himself holds a plethora of secrets later revealed through a montage of flashbacks all intertwined, leading to an unexpected outcome. All in all, I found this Film to be very intriguing to watch minus just a few minute moments which could have been better. But other than that, I enjoyed it. I'd recommend giving it a view and judging it for yourselves.

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