The action and monsters in this film are very cool, but the tonal shifts and a plot line that have you asking "Why?" every couple of minutes destroy the film.
The plot has two snipers each manning a tower on either side of a gorge somewhere in Europe. They are to prevent whatever is in the gorge from coming out. They are not to communicate but they do and a romance blossoms. Things become complicated when Miles Teller finds himself in the gorge and Anya Taylor Joy has to go rescue him and they discover what the secret the gorge is.
Long part of the black list of unproduced scripts, I'm left to wonder how many interations this went through. The ideas are cool, but the reasoning (it's not supernatural devils or creatures from the center of the earth) of it being a long running corporate project really makes no sense...especially since it went back to the Second World War.
Also a huge problem is the shifts in tone. Thriller to rom com to action to meet cute ending gives us whiplash and destroys the suspense-once we hit the romcom bits I lost all fear either of the lead would die.
While not bad as such, I was ready to hang it up in middle, and only stayed to find out if the explanation makes sense.
Only worth a look on a desperate night on the couch
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