To reiterate the warning, this review definitely contains spoilers. Don't read it if you want any surprises left at all. Although I must admit that even NOT reading this review will not guarantee you any surprises.
Meh. DUSK doesn't have all that much going for it. The acting is competent but not particularly inspired, though truthfully there isn't much going on in the movie in terms of thematic meat that would encourage dramatic soaring.
If you're older than about 12 then you should be familiar with the "everybody's really dead" plot line. Usually, in most variations of this plot line and indeed in this one, some violent event happens near the beginning of the movie and the primary actor or actors have actually transitioned to being dead only they don't know it. Most of the story is devoted to tracing their progression to the realization that they have died. The big punchline at the end is we, the audience, "discover" that everybody has been dead all along with some big denouement accompanied with self-realization and a moral graduation (or failure) and so on.
Innumerable television series have featured episodes primarily consisting of this basic plot (even LOST was ultimately a variation on this theme at the end), whole movies like this one, etc. It has sometimes been executed really well as with THE OTHERS.
If you're a young person and new to the plot idea that it's okay. If it's the 800th iteration that you've seen of the same idea, not so much. Since the characters are supposed to make some sort of big emotional transition, much of what transpires throughout the movie consists of a lot of emotional biting and scratching which I suppose is intended to facilitate their inner evolution. I get enough of that in real life that I mostly found it just tiresome.
Maybe you would feel different.
Meh. DUSK doesn't have all that much going for it. The acting is competent but not particularly inspired, though truthfully there isn't much going on in the movie in terms of thematic meat that would encourage dramatic soaring.
If you're older than about 12 then you should be familiar with the "everybody's really dead" plot line. Usually, in most variations of this plot line and indeed in this one, some violent event happens near the beginning of the movie and the primary actor or actors have actually transitioned to being dead only they don't know it. Most of the story is devoted to tracing their progression to the realization that they have died. The big punchline at the end is we, the audience, "discover" that everybody has been dead all along with some big denouement accompanied with self-realization and a moral graduation (or failure) and so on.
Innumerable television series have featured episodes primarily consisting of this basic plot (even LOST was ultimately a variation on this theme at the end), whole movies like this one, etc. It has sometimes been executed really well as with THE OTHERS.
If you're a young person and new to the plot idea that it's okay. If it's the 800th iteration that you've seen of the same idea, not so much. Since the characters are supposed to make some sort of big emotional transition, much of what transpires throughout the movie consists of a lot of emotional biting and scratching which I suppose is intended to facilitate their inner evolution. I get enough of that in real life that I mostly found it just tiresome.
Maybe you would feel different.