Monsters

2017

Action / Adventure / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

IMDb Rating 3.1/10 10 219 219

Plot summary

Conflict and tension looms heavily across the broken remains of a distant, post-apocalyptic world. Controlled by a race of oppressive genetically-enhanced humans, the last natural-born humans have no choice but to bow down to their rule. The only alternative is to wander the vast wastelands surrounding the last habitable city, whilst relentlessly hunted by roaming pack of mutated monsters. Meanwhile, outside the towering walls of the citadel, aboard a massive hulking army tank, an uprising occurs amongst the natural-born crew. Their hope lies in the legend of the Republic of EZO: said to return aboard the last starship....



November 16, 2023 at 06:39 PM

Director

Sven Knüppel

Top cast

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1.01 GB
1280*544
English 2.0
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1 hr 52 min
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1920*816
English 5.1
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1 hr 52 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by nammage 3 / 10

A mish-mash of...Whatever

A low budget film from Germany with some badly spoken English that have some actors speaking with different accents. One of the main actors in the beginning sounds a bit Scottish, though maybe he is Scottish. Maybe they should have just stuck to their native tongue of German. Though there is some characters who do speak German but then go back to English. So apparently it's about a desolate wasteland where genetically advanced humans rule over and oppress the last naturally birthed humans. I guess sex is frowned upon in this future. Virgins must have made the film.

The sets and costuming appear to be either from the local department of sanitation and/or things thrown out from other cheaply made films but though they're varying in its trashy mish-mash look, they're all so clean in this 'wasteland'. I read all the reviews; a few commented on the abundance of profanity. It has the normal amount of profanity that almost any other English-based film has that's rated 'R', actually probably a bit less There's also a story here. The main problem I saw was each scene is hurried along to the next scene which makes the catch-up (explaining of previous scenes) annoying. Also, there aren't that many (maybe one) seasoned actors, or mainly any actors in this film though they do try. There are some pathetically acted parts such as a scene 20-22 minutes in with this zombie-like dude walking toward another man before some ninja-girl kills him. The zombie-like dude was acting quite poorly. I really didn't get the sword carrying women fighters especially since some of them have machine guns, and there are tanks, and flying ships etc., it just seemed out-of-place.

Overall it's watchable if quite nonsensical throughout. If they did without the cheap theatrics of mutant monsters and just kept to the basic story and didn't rush it from scene-to-scene then I think it wouldn't have been that bad.

Reviewed by nogodnomasters 1 / 10

Never bring a gun to a knife fight.

On a distant planet a group of white people and clones, all with various Earth accents live on a planet 70 years after a nuclear war. The clones have a mark above and below the left eye that looks like printing on a piece of tape or band-aid. There isn't much of a starship that actually flies in space other than the quick CG opening scene. They travel around in a tank that is about ten times larger inside than outside, a loaner from Dr. Who no doubt. There are women who wore red mop heads as wigs. There are mutants and a really large mutant they must kill, most likely because "Resident Evil" had one for no good reason either, although this one is Godzilla size.

The film was not well organized. The little girl who gave the introduction was a lousy speaker. This was another DVD I had to crank up the volume like a boot-leg. Subtitles would have been nice with a better set-up of characters.

Guide: F-word. Sex. No nudity.

Reviewed by aschmoe 8 / 10

Surprisingly Engaging

I found this on Amazon Prime's free movie list and almost immediately turned it off when I saw the poor production value, but in the end, I'm glad that I stuck with. This movie's not for everyone, but in the pantheon of bad sci-fi movies, it's not that bad.

The plot doesn't make perfect sense, but it's action-packed enough to be enjoyable nonetheless. One gets the impression that the writer had a lot more content that got cut because geeze, it's already almost 2 hours long. I get the feeling it would have been a great book series, I hope the author keeps writing. It's the kind of movie that offers a lot of brain food if you like to write your own post-apocalypse stories or RPG settings or such things, but at the same time, it isn't one of those movies with lots of world-building and stale characters. The characters aren't super deep, but they do feel very real. The mood of the movie is somewhat goofy, it's not an angst-ridden apocalypse, but rather a world that the characters have grown up in and come to terms with.

Half-spoiler, the actual plot of the movie has nothing to do with the current plot summary, which was written by the director, which is part of what leads me to believe that the script got heavily edited or a lot of content (probably world-building) got cut out.

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