Name: Hangar 10 (2014)
IMDb: link to Hangar 10 page
Genres: Horror, SciFi. Country of origin: UK.
Cast: Robert Curtis as Gus Mills, Abbie Salt as Sally, Danny Shayler as Jake.
Directed by: Daniel Simpson. Written by: Adam Preston, Daniel Simpson.
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The initial tableaux:
Boyfriend Gus, girlfriend Sally, and Sally's old friend Jake set out with metal detectors and the like to discover some missing gold in the Suffolk area in England. They stop at a pub which Gus had used as a base when he found a Roman coin sometime back. Fliers at the pub note UFO activity. Right. Just before they start the actual search, Jake mentions that a military helicopter has been circling the area near them for hours.
They start in nearby accessible plowed fields. They find nothing, so the meandering continues.
Delineation of conflicts:
Gus is a jerk; Sally and Jake put up with him. Jake is a jerk; Gus and Sally put up with him.
They do much of the search in the dark, and have some navigation difficulties in the woods (Rendlesham Forest). They are in a spot of danger from hostile forces that discover them.
Resolution: Will the aliens get them?
One line summary: Look for gold, find aliens.
Statistics:
Cinematography: 0/10 For the first hour or so, the visuals were absolute bullshit, with failures aplenty: focus, depth of field, framing, sufficient light, flare, artifacts from dirty lenses and so on. Toward the end, there were visual effects added in abundance. The movie seemed like a bad join of two incompatible films.
Sound: 2/10 For the first hour or so, the sound was rather poor since it was captured with a handheld video camera of low quality. Toward the end, a great deal of sound effects were added, some of which were unsettling.
Acting: 0/10 Three non-actors plus a cheap video camera. The lines were bad, and the delivery was bad.
Screenplay: 0/10 These plotlines have been done to death: found film, bickering, getting lost in the forest at night, search for ancient relics, the bogeymen are after you, the military and their opaque motives are somehow involved. None of them were done well here. Add in parking on private land without permission and having one's ride stolen. The last five minutes seemed like a borrow from an entirely different film.
Final rating: 1/10
Spoiler alert:
No one comes out alive. The aliens depicted were not cool or interesting or even vaguely feasible.
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