The Siren

Boring, and without a story well put together. Music is particularly bad - lame attempt at creating some atmosphere of mystery, but failing miserably at that.

And end up with your eyes glued to the screen. Hauntingly beautiful movie. It tells a really good story which is kinda lacking in the reboot-remake Hollywood generation. I want to be taken on a journey with a movie, escape reality. This movie does that. I enjoyed the theme, the story, the acting and writing. I was able to suspend my disbelief. This is one of those movies that does not fit tightly into any one category. I just liked it.

Unless you have a sexual mermaid fetishism boring slow burn with litrally nothing happening its about a siren who actually drowns and murders families who falls in love with a deaf mute while being hunted by a guy who's boyfriend she murdered unable to get revenge he dies in hands of siren and the mute finds out she's a killer, she ashamed leaves, he cries few days wishing he could be a siren and than leaves END Now imagine getting the movie in the prospective of a deaf mute who don't speak throughout the film. The Siren The good ratings obviously from production crew and execs

If you're not into subtle slow burn movies, and you consider Marvel movies to be masterpieces this may not be for you. It's slow, methodic, tortured and utterly heartbreaking... but a wonderful movie. to the reviewer that felt the need to write a thesis on Siren and Mermaid lore, review the movie, we don't need a history lesson on mythology, geez.

This movie was so slow in great part because the director expended an inordinate amount of time trying to create an aesthetically pleasing story. Unfortunately, investing So much time in creating a cinematically pleasing movie quashed the story which became an ordeal to watch. It's a story that fails miserably to develop the characters Of the three actors and in the end leaves you asking why you ever watched this movie. Disappointing.

The Siren had so much potential. If it was a first-time student film, I might give it a pass. The set-up of the two male leads provides a great opportunity to develop a nuanced, complicated relationship, which the film chooses to gloss over. Choosing to make one character openly gay and the other a strict Christian and having them form a friendship means something in the world we live in, but in the world of this film, it only serves as set dressing to give the illusion of well-roundedness. The same goes with the lead's muteness. I think casual representation is something we should all strive for in the stories we tell and consume, but if you're going to make something a central element of your narrative, why not explore it in a deeper, emotional and thematic way? Margaret Ying Drake delivers a competent performance, but the script, costuming, and effects give any reality she might breathe into Nina a lot to fight against. The use of music in the film is.... complicated. I see from some promotional material that it seems like at times this film has been marketed as The Rusalka, which honestly makes more sense from a mythological standpoint than a siren. The roots of Nina's character as a creature from Slavic mythology makes the use of music make more sense (mostly a capella vocals of folk songs). There was a moment when I recognized a song that was being used in the film, but once the excitement that I might be cultured of clever wore off, I realized that the meaning, the actual words, of the song, had nothing to do with its place in the film, and I realized that this honestly bold choice for a soundtrack was literally only there to create a spooky atmosphere by appealing to its "otherness" to an English-speaking audience. All in all, The Siren feels half-baked, and worse of all, just boring. If only it was even more poorly made it might've fallen into a so-bad-its-good territory, but, alas.