Desolate (2018) Reviews

• Disturbing

  omendata2019-07-15

  Well filmed and acted and a very strange story - where is this meant to be set as I certainly haven't seen this sort of place in the USA and in what year as it seems to be a futuristic movie or just trying to be different. I must admit I always find movies in which women are used and abused quite disturbing and this one leaves a particularly bad taste in the mouth and does not really have many redeeming features! I suppose you could say it does illustrate what is going on in the world but it has been done many times before and this film really gives nothing new and although it is well acted the story really goes nowhere - pretty average fair!

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• Another piece of garbage with fake imdb reviews

  carlos-pires2019-07-13

  This is surely one of the worst movies I have ever watched in the last 40 years. Don't believe the 9 star reviews, which are obviously fake reviews from production staffers. Hint: click on the "See all my reviews" and if this guy who is so eloquently praising this piece o's*** only has 1 review, IT'S OBVIOUSLY FAKE! As for the movie... it has the most stupid and incoherent plot I have ever seen. Nothing makes sense. Looks like a bunch of redneck inbreeding crackheads decided to movie on redneck inbreeders and crackheads. I was fooled by above-average poster design and by fake imdb reviews. Please don't make the same mistake I did.

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• What a missed opportunity

  topcar2019-07-16

  First half 8/10 the second half 5/10, it's like one person wrote the first half and someone else wrote the second half, This could of been a very very good movie

• Predictable and truly awful

  pencritical2019-07-22

  Desolate supposedly takes place in a land where no rain has fallen in forever, but there is grass -- brown grass. Evidently these dumb jack-knapes don't know what ground would look like when nothing grows for years. There wouldn't be ANY grass you morons. Try a desert, the outback? A tundra? Not the badlands... that grass is just summer dormant. Idiots make bad movies. Anyway, bad settings aside, the story is asinine and boring as hell. A stupid idiot of a kid has three equally stupid and overbearing older brothers and a "shades of Deliverance type" stupid father who all insist he tow the line, which up until this point he evidently hasn't been doing but suddenly feels the need to do now? Stuff as expected goes from bad to worse. There is a girl. There is stolen money. There are bad guys. There is betrayal. There is more betrayal. There is a lot of death. The comatose stupid kid is a hero under it all. All the people who should live do except one sacrificial good guy. Blah, Blah, Blah. Does it sound familiar? It should. You've seen it before. It bored you then. It will bore you now. Don't bother.

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• Meh. Rather lack luster.

  Medevi12019-07-16

  This movie gets 5 stars from me, and just barely. I can see some giving it a 6 but anything over that is either someone selling their product or people that are easily impressed. This is a modern day western set in forgotten town USA. There is nothing futuristic about it. More a look into the bleak world of man when left to his own devices. The movies story is unoriginal with typical characters behaving in typical fashion. The pace is set early, and never really gains any steam making it feel monotonous. The movie does do a good job at making you wonder how thing came to be the way they are, and has a real sense of believability in that it could happen without to much stretch of the imagination. That's really the only thing the movie has going for it. I didn't find it unsettling, brutal, exciting, or compelling in any way. It's average nothing more, and nothing less. Watch it if you like, but please don't be persuaded by these reviews giving it 9s, and 10! I promise you it's a 5!

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