Movies - The Thing (2011)

It's been while I have been into movie theaters. Spending so much money to anything else than what really matters. There has been no good movies lately, or just not that interesting flicks.

But as I read from one movie news/review based finnish site, Filmifin, that they were making (or were done but doing some end stuff) new The Thing movie, shock came through my body. I didn't know what to think, be sad or just laughable interested. 1982s The Thing with Kurt Russell was something very amazing to me. Still remember as I watched it as a kid and peeked behind my pillow lots of times. Few years later I bought it, but it wasn't scary at all.

The Thing (2011)

First thing I have to say, this movie is not a remake. At first I heard about this movie, I thought it was one of those movies what some film directors think might have remake value. This is based on events just before the 1982s movie.

 Movie starts almost like any other scifi/horror movie. Some people in search of something or just wondering around makes big discovery. After this, they decide to get some help from other scientific department (in this case it's paleontology based person). Like any other movie, they aren't told what they have discovered before they are taken to the subject/object which leads actors to be in shock/awe. These scenes are one of the many cliché scenes you will see. But what do you expect? Actors do their job decent, although any decision they make are little too predicted. And you can't even get in for the characters they act. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is only actor who tries her best (well, she IS leading actor), but in some scenes you see her act to be little slob.

Scary factor isn't really there, there are couple scenes where even I (was little tired though) startled a little. But there was one scene which was successful in making suspenseful scene, but in the long run, it was just too extended.

But of course for those who aren't used to seen any creepier looking monsters than in fantasy films or childrens films these creatures might make you little scared or just nauseous. For my opinion, the creature(s) were the top thing in this film. Special effects were pretty nicely done. Although there was one thing in the monsters that didn't seem to be done correctly: claws, teeth or spikes or whatever those things were. They were too clean to be part of the thing. Little picky opinion, but that's me!

For those who doesn't really care genre of this film or don't know anything about the previous movie, plot may seem to be kinda lame or nothing unusual. But for those who love horror and scifi films (mostly based on horror side) and specially Russell starred The Thing one, plot is the same. Apologises if I have ruined somebodys enjoyment of going films, but you should already realize that this movie is almost the same, so plot cannot be any different. Sure the plot is based little different location, but anything else is almost like copied from the previous one.

To conclude this, I suggest going to see this movie if you get discount (unless heavy fan, then you have my permission to pay full price). And for short, it's nice movie from horror/sciri genre, doesn't give anything new, but isn't horrible to give too low score. Special effects were pretty nice, so they saved half a point here from me: 2½/5 

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