This is How Movies Should Be Made

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Really Surprised!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

"The Ungodly" has an original story, involving a serial killer and a filmmaker that films everything he does, in order to make a daring documentary. Things don't happen as planned-- of course-, and filmmaker seems himself in a big trouble once the killer involves his mother. One thing I have to ask-- is it that easy to get away with murder in the USA? I mean, he kills lots of people and simply walks away, with no police after him or anything like that. I really don't know what went wrong with this picture, but I found the first half hour very boring and uninteresting. Maybe because the plot is too simple; maybe because we're tired of movie with people filming everything, or maybe because it just plains bad. Nothing bad-- or good- to say about acting, directing and development. It's just an ordinary movie, but didn't entertain nor pleased me. Just pass it.

This was shown on the Horror Channel one night, and I recorded it based on the title. It turns out that the film is more of a thriller (as described on this site) rather than a horror, which initially really disappointed me. However, I will review this film on the fact that it is a thriller. I felt that this film was quick to capture my attention in the fist few scenes, the characters were strong and the acting was excellent - however I think the story line needed a bit more work because I felt that sometimes the audience was left guessing - there were parts when I was wondering why things were happening, but pushed through them. The story line is a little far fetched - a film maker blackmailing a serial killer in to making a documentary, only then to seem to befriend him and help him - however if you can get over the slightly unbelievable part of blackmailing a killer, then I think you will really enjoy the film. It plays with your mind, the way the characters develop is interesting and believable; and what I like a lot about this, is that I began to empathise with the killer. I like films that make me think that way. Not my usual type of film, but I watched it through to the end and really enjoyed it.

on this one. If Atonement can be even made. If No Country For Old Men can win awards, than this was a great movie. Drop that and this movie was good. I wouldn't recommend heading to a theatre for something like this but then I wouldn't recommend even watching the former two movies. I would encourage a rental of this one. I was more than surprised that the acting was so solid. I can't quite say what it was about this one but it had an independent body while delivering a higher budget soul. For those that have written reviews instead of adding comments here, thanks, but please do suspend belief when doing so; you're watching fiction. Not all fiction meets all film school 101 criteria (in fact, for your type of people, do rent Dead Poets Society and pay attention to what Robin William's character teaches then come back and re-write your reviews). For the rest of you pondering watching this one, again, this didn't meet the 101 but it was entertaining. And I generally detest anything low budget _and_ anything with knives a'slashing away.

Unlike the other posters so far, I'm not falling over in my seat at how amazing and awesome this movie was -- because it wasn't. Don't be fooled by the fanboy stylings of earlier posts, this is not the latest "Henry." To its credit, it wants to be a movie that good, but it falls short on a variety of levels. The acting is pretty good, but there are no star turns here, except perhaps for the always under-appreciated Beth Grant, in a small role at the end. The story is so-so, but it is filled with logical holes and strains credulity many times.But the biggest problem for me was depth. The movie wants to be weighing in on the way in which the filmmaker ends up behaving like the killer, but the plot doesn't slow down long enough to really explore it. It just keeps plowing ahead into new unlikely turn after turn, with no time left for a real reckoning for anyone.At the end, I'm not sorry I watched it, but it wasn't all that great.