Tuesday, 13 December 2011

The Thing (2011) 7/10

Starring : Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen
Director : Matthijs van W Campbell Jr
Running Time : 99 mins

At a remote Antarctic research facility, the discovery of a strange – possibly alien – space craft leads to some strange occurrences as people start to suspect that their colleagues may not be who they appear to be and violent deaths begin to happen at the hands of a shape-changing and malevolent force.

Everyone will instantly want to compare this to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic, but this just sets the movie up to fail. Making a remake of a remake (?) is probably not the wisest thing in the world to do; those involved here have managed to make a reasonable movie, though it is basically a facsimile of Carpenter’s work with a female lead thrown in. Worth checking out – I myself was worried that CGI effects might butcher this but the effects were okay.

You’ll like this if you liked : Whiteout



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