Director: Matthew Warren
Year: 2024
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Heading out on a weekend trip, a group of friends go out into the desert to get away from society and look into visiting a popular spot in the wilderness, but the longer the trip takes the more the group comes to believe outside forces are keeping them from going through their mission.
Review:
This was a rather solid if somewhat problematic genre effort. The early setup to this one involving the group getting together and going out into the desert is a lot more fun than expected, generating enough rather solid points about their past relationship and getting to know them that there’s plenty of sympathy generated from the group for once actually feeling like genuine friends. This continues once they head out into the desert and go through the landscape trying to get to their final mission which is where the final half turns into a fun, searing take on meta filmmaking with the series of reveals and twists that arise here, all generating plenty of fun with how everything takes place.
There are some issues present here that hold it back. The main drawback here is a lethargic and outright sluggish pacing that plays out at a massively offputting tempo to draw viewers in. Despite the way the group is presented, who are fun to be around and seem like genuine friends who are enjoying a trip like this together, it takes way too long before they even get to the desert much less even further along before something starts happening. The attempts at integrating something with the location potentially influencing them in some way to act like this the longer they’re there or the drug use being a cause, but it just never picks up the speed in any degree leaving it to be a struggle to get through.
Overview: */5
A disappointing if still somewhat intriguing genre effort, this one has some decent positives to keep it going but it’s mostly let down by several big issues that make for a difficult watch. Those who are intrigued by this type of feature or are unbothered by the negatives might want to give it a shot while most others out there turned off by these factors should heed caution.
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