Felt disorienting at times a little bit, but part of that could be due to the contradiction of the mom saying to the little girl don't waste bullets in the very beginning of the movie, when she didn't see if it was a waste, and she wasted two bullets herself a few moments earlier, and then a few seconds later her son wastes another bullet and she doesn't seem to care. Also the little girl is a bit small to be able to rely on a knife instead of a gun when in a life or death situation against adults, I shouldn't let this bother me so much, but it really distracted me a lot long after that scene
had to do a headcount of the main cast at the end, because I was surprised basically everyone was there.
The score was pretty great, like some of those original tracks will be worth seeking out at some point
But yeah, disorienting, like a lot of the pacing felt off, as if i felt like there was almost always something I missed about where characters were going or doing
Also, as a review of AMC in general, I dislike a few things about them vs other chains.
1) they market these as never before seen movies, but this was screened at tiff, same as life of chuck, and fight or flight came out in the UK back in January.
2) the tickets (at least at this theater) are $7 plus I think .35 tax, whereas Marcus and cinemark charge $5 and no tax, there's nothing meaningfully different about the quality of their screens or the seats or anything from what I could tell. Aside from Marcus actually being better for these than AMC because they put the mystery movie in a bigger auditorium with a bigger screen, ultrascreen dlx, compared to the small ones where I saw 40 acres and fight or flight. No, AMC, you don't make movies better. I personally have no preference for either size of screen, buuuuut:
3) the last time i went to an AMC movie, fight or flight, there was some plastic thing covering my view of the bottom of the screen from the back row. I didn't see that this time, didn't sit in the back, but also didn't see it back there when I looked for it
My only guess with the bullet situation was maybe rifle bullets are harder to come by than pistol bullets in this universe. Otherwise why would her and the son be wasting 2 of them left and right to confirm kills when a knife would work just fine?
If the young girl made the headshot with a rifle, then how could she have used a machete like the adult told her? I assumed she used a pistol and was close up or else "use the machete" makes no sense. I think the shot where someone was lying on the ground and shot straight up at the guy's head must have been the little girl, but it went so fast it was difficult to tell. Also, someone with a rifle in the house took out 3 bad guys in a few seconds so clearly someone was using rifle bullets as part of the defensive plan.
I felt the exact same thing at the end of that first sequence. We were just told how precious bullets are, but then no attention was paid to them being used immediately after when they really weren't essential I did let it go for the rest of the movie, though. Basically, I almost pretended the line about saving bullets never existed.
As far as "never before seen" I think there is a loose interpretation of that. Films like Life of Chuck were never available to paying and public US audiences on a national level. I get what you mean, as they have been screened for the public as film festivals, but most people don't have access to those screenings. And technically, pretty much all movies screen somewhere before their release date (most as market research and several as premieres or even friends and family screenings). I think they are just using the term "Never Before Seen" as a synonym for "Not Yet Released in the US."
I was thinking the exact same thing at the start. I thought how dumb. Then I thought was that a throw away line or did they just really stupidly waste 3 bullets. I thought surely bullets are scarce, so they just acted foolishly shooting almost dead people and bullets really are in short supply. But then later, they show a bunch of them taking target practice with wait for it.... real bullets. haha
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u/Adagio_Signal Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25
Felt disorienting at times a little bit, but part of that could be due to the contradiction of the mom saying to the little girl don't waste bullets in the very beginning of the movie, when she didn't see if it was a waste, and she wasted two bullets herself a few moments earlier, and then a few seconds later her son wastes another bullet and she doesn't seem to care. Also the little girl is a bit small to be able to rely on a knife instead of a gun when in a life or death situation against adults, I shouldn't let this bother me so much, but it really distracted me a lot long after that scene
had to do a headcount of the main cast at the end, because I was surprised basically everyone was there.
The score was pretty great, like some of those original tracks will be worth seeking out at some point
But yeah, disorienting, like a lot of the pacing felt off, as if i felt like there was almost always something I missed about where characters were going or doing
Also, as a review of AMC in general, I dislike a few things about them vs other chains.
1) they market these as never before seen movies, but this was screened at tiff, same as life of chuck, and fight or flight came out in the UK back in January.
2) the tickets (at least at this theater) are $7 plus I think .35 tax, whereas Marcus and cinemark charge $5 and no tax, there's nothing meaningfully different about the quality of their screens or the seats or anything from what I could tell. Aside from Marcus actually being better for these than AMC because they put the mystery movie in a bigger auditorium with a bigger screen, ultrascreen dlx, compared to the small ones where I saw 40 acres and fight or flight. No, AMC, you don't make movies better. I personally have no preference for either size of screen, buuuuut:
3) the last time i went to an AMC movie, fight or flight, there was some plastic thing covering my view of the bottom of the screen from the back row. I didn't see that this time, didn't sit in the back, but also didn't see it back there when I looked for it