Becoming Death (2022) User Reviews

Pretty bad

[matthewmillerwriter · 2/10 · 29 August 2022]

The movie is about mental illness. I know they were going for seeing through the mentally-ill eyes of the protagonist, but it was so weird, slow, and unrealistic, that it felt like they were making it weird just to be artistic and to make the viewer feel mentally-ill. There is also at least one character who is never explained, which is annoying. The plot makes no sense and has no resolution. I think my main mental illness is paying to watch this.

The good thing about the movie is that there is decent acting, and good atmosphere. I will give it that. There have been many good movies about mental illness, movies that are allegories or have a plot twist or involve the reader in the ill mind of the main character, but they at least make a solid story with a beginning, a middle, and an and. This has none of those.

2 thirds of the movie are a complete waste of time

[rmorenbe · 3/10 · 8 September 2022]

As she arrives to the interview, the movie is a waste of time; nothing new, deliberate but annoying slow dialogues, ...

On the good side, her Jungian "shadow" (the bloody girl) is iconic, the acting is surprisingly good for such difficult dialogues and dreamy atmosphere, and I've seen a nice detail which I want to think was deliberate: when she offers her hand to the interviewer her hand would form a dog's head in chinese shadows, and he is a rabbit; it may be a foreboding of what's to come.

Interpretations/Explantions: I think the scene with the mother and her boyfriend is there to show us her mother also has visions. Maybe his father doesn't even exist. The meeting with the boyfriend is real. In the end I imagine she leaves the head of Ulysses in her sister's car, some kind of boyfriend for her? And then she ends her "I wonder what's deep down" entering the tunnel; metaphor of her downward spiral.

Film school, arthouse, slow paced horror. Just awful.

[stevelivesey-37183 · 2/10 · 22 January 2024]

I cant give it a one though. I give it a two, 'well done for trying'.

This really poor stuff. I am sure that the director had all the best intentions of being the next David Lynch. To be fair, there are some nice ideas in this, but not enough for a full blown feature. Maybe a ten minute short but that's about it.

I can't be bothered to go through a synopsis, it wouldn't help much anyway. There are themes of ghosts, mental illness, differing personalities, personal strife, mother issues, etc. All of which are lost in the slow pace and opaque meaning as it trundles along for an hour and a half. Avoid.

Slow, and bad

[gonzalo_paletta · 2/10 · 11 November 2022]

I've watched the whole movie hoping that in the end something will happen. But all the dialogues was too slow. In quite a few times during the movie it felt like the actors where reading card with the dialogues.

A true waste of time. Not an horror movie at all maybe a Z Class movie horror but skip it and watch something else.

The shooting it's weird and it feels like all the technical strategies are miss used.

Te first 3 minutes where promising and but since she gets inside the car everything starts going from bad to worst.

Maybe my review it's raw but it's what I felt watching this.

Not expecting for a second part.

Nice movie you should check out

[noilangeloth · 7/10 · 2 February 2024]

Nice movie I can tell this one alex went out on a hood story not a slasher or. Nothing a story about life and how we are today.

The characters is better and smarter And the ending set up many ideas for sequel Becoming death 2 Becoming death 3 Becoming death. 4 and the list goes on I think you should check this movie out and there abunch of shorts films on his channel that continues the story from the movies Pus Alex is working on about 6 full features so a sequel could be one. He working on.if it came down to it it would be on my top 20 best movies because I fun it is and how the script and. Character are.