That was an excellent one.

disgusting, overrated, pointless

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Warning: mild spoilers.Let's list the pros: + Visuals are pretty good. Electric egg pods are fun to look at. Great scenic shots. Like visiting the Yucatan without leaving your couch. + At least Mystery Science Theatre has fresh new content. And that's about it. Now the cons: Characters completely unlikable. As in, they start off terrible: cold, cynical and reserved. At the end, they are interested in each other. But they've made no sacrifices. They've made no transformation. They survived and watched aliens get nookie. Predictable-as-hell story. "Oh, they didn't get on the boat?" "They will have to go by land?" "They will learn something about the aliens on the way?" "There will be danger?" "They will be surprised when they get to the wall?" "Is America not everything they thought it would be?"Paints Americans as s**t tourists. Because tourists like "Andrew" exist: assuming the entire world speaks English, and therefore starts every sentence in that language. But seriously, it's obnoxious to watch, and adds no meaningful value to the overall program.The scripting is terrible. Somebody should have taken the script and ran it through Grammarly.The romance is forced. I've seen two paperclips have deeper passion than these two. The aliens are unoriginal. Electric. Octopus. Sharks with Lasers would have at least been more fun to watch.Clearly, I was not a fan. Hard pass.

When I saw a description of this movie about two people traveling through a terrestrial-monster-infected Mexico, I didn't expect it would be a romance, even though I saw it described as a romance, because, well, alien monsters, right? But this film is closer to It Happened One Night than it is to Attack the Block. Monster movies usually emphasize, in order, 1) monsters, 2) world building, and 3) human relationships. But Monsters flips that order. This is a movie about two people thrown together by adverse circumstances who become close as they travel through a strange yet familiar world. They are fairly ordinary people who do not, as in so many monster movies, wind up doing extraordinary things to survive. They do what most of us would do; hide.The setting is a Mexico with a monster problem. The movie does a wonderful job in creating a very real world. It's lovely when you catch site of wall mural the incorporates aliens or see a truck that has part of a U.S. military part attached. This is a real world that has incorporated its unusual circumstances into normal life, stoically accepting this as the new normal.You might think that, since I was expecting a monster movie, the fact that the movie is 90% monster-less would disappoint me, but it didn't at all. I really liked these two people slowly (very slowly compared to a typical movie romance) getting to know and care for each other as they travel the land. Even the occasional moments of suspense were more about watching these two than watching the monsters.Like the wonderful Colossal, this is not a movie, but rather a movie that takes certain tropes and re-purposes them to make a very different kind of movie. The result is absolutely lovely.

Set in a future in which half of Mexico has been "infected" by giant aliens, two Americans try to cross the border and return to the United States in this alien invasion film with a difference. In an unusual move, the title creatures hardly ever appear on screen, something that makes their fleeting appearances late in the piece more mysterious and enchanting. That said, the lack of monsters in the first half of the movie does not quite sit right as it forces us to instead concentrate on the hardly remarkable main characters. Apparently much of the dialogue was improvised and it shows with nothing but awkward conversations between the pair on subjects as varied as dolphins and the weather. The romantic tension between them is also a little too routine to click with their eventual bonding blatantly obvious from the start. The film does have several solid moments though as the characters come across "infected" trees that bring to mind the forests of 'eXistenZ' and some of the monster action near the end is also quite compelling thanks to excellent special effects. The vast majority of the film though just revolves around the protagonists conversing with each other, which is only as engaging as it sounds. It is at least refreshing though to come across a dire dystopia movie where there is not a sense of doom and gloom overhanging every scene, plus the ending is certainly memorable.

Repeating....jungles on Mexico's Northern Border? A border wall ten times the height of China's great wall? The octopus/squid/lava-light nemesis with a pupae/river/sea/land life cycle is a decent creation but with a title like "Monsters" I expected more interaction between earthlings and beasts from outer space than that.