Perhaps this film needed the "in house" movie experienced (darkened theatre, sense of isolation, etc.) to generate the dread mentioned so often here… I certainly never experienced any – nor anything much more than "when is this going to end" and "WTF did THAT mean?".
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Fast & Furious goes beyond "jump the shark" to full blown live action cartoon in the first fifteen minutes… and since I still enjoy Looney Tunes cartoons, I really didn't have a problem with that.
Presumably, all the rave reviews I've seen were for the stylish production style and storytelling, since the story, despite it's X-files vibe, held no particular surprises.
Body horror meets the horrors of 21st-century dating in the most (intentionally) uncomfortable film I've watched in a very long time.
As leisurely as the pace may be, it supremely captures the mythic feeling so essential to Arthurian storytelling.
