Just perfect...

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Awful. Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen. One star for the beautiful eerie landscapes, otherwise there is simply nothing else to comment on. Don't waste your time. I am well versed in the intellectual movie genre, but this is not it. It's two hours of time vacuumed into oblivion. Now I am supposed to add a few more lines for the review to be long enough, but believe me, there is nothing to add here. There are movies that are not worth one star out of ten, and there is no point to beat around the bush or gorge on the negatives. If you are stubborn like me, you would perhaps spend 80 minutes or so waiting to see if it is a slow-unfolding gem with a plot twist. Let me save your time: it is not.

This was surprisingly interesting and entertaining. The landscapes are beautiful and the CGI is effective: the scenes with the ghost are pretty creepy and work really well. I really felt the tension in some of these scenes, and I also thought that some shots were very clever.I also loved the way the story is told, the way it went back and forth between the two brothers by showing them visiting the same places, and Sam leaving his notebooks behind with instructions and notes.The (few) actors in it are also good, not only for a low budget, indie movie but in general.I thought the idea was very original and different and, even if the ending is a bit anti- climatic, I loved the fact that I didn't know what to expect most of the time. i liked it and would definitely recommend it!

Warning: compared to previous survival horror works like "Silent Hill" and the first "Resident Evil", "How To Save Us" doesn't have a whole lot of action; in fact, as detractors here have pointed out, there's mostly of whole lot of walking and sitting and staring into space until the final 20 minutes. It's all about mood and the unsettling spectacle of empty towns and houses everywhere, and the loneliness and vulnerability of the two main characters as one searches for the other through an eerily empty landscape. Once in a while, though, the invisible bogeymen will manifest themselves for a few seconds, and the scenes when they DO stir are pretty creepy and work quite well. However, the visual pleasures of the film are not to be missed if you're into that sort of thing, and the soundtrack/sound design is brilliant. And since the film is really about family and love, the screenplay has some sweetness and a real heart to it.To tell the truth: after the nihilism and hopelessness of the first part of the film, the "happy ending" seemed pasted on, but I decided it was OK to not have the cynical "evil wins after all" stinger for once and just go with the sweetness-and-light ending, even if it wasn't especially convincing.Amazingly good for what looks like an independent production. Not for viewers who want a roller coaster ride.

Seeing 6.3 rating of this movie, I just couldn't resist wasting 2min. for typing this review and about 15min of fast forwarding this masterpiece. The movie is about 2 dudes that do a lot of walking. Sometimes they seat. On occasion they fish and build camp fires. Very often they listen to really crappy music on a small mono transistor radio. Aha, almost forgot... From time to time there is a lot of wind and a very blurry figure shows up in the background. Presumably a ghost or an alien. On a plus side, the producers bought themselves a tripod. Most of the shots are steady. OK. I said it. That's it. Good luck not putting a bear bottle though your plasma... I would love to thank the other reviewers in person.