The Vast of Night

I watched this last night with my wife, and we were sorely disappointed. We had seen the trailers, and thought it looked like it would be a good movie. Then we read some of the reviews, which more or less confirmed our reaction to the trailers. Then, we actually saw it. Nothing happened. The whole thing could have been crammed into a half hour show. There was too much talking, and by that I mean there was too much wasted dialogue, and the characters were talking too fast to make it worthwhile. I'd like to say there was action, but there wasn't any. I'd like to say there was suspense, but there wasn't any. I'd like to say we felt something for the characters, but we didn't. With the ending, we were like, "That's it? A cheap knock-off of Close Encounters?" So yes, two stars. That's being generous.

At one point i was scared the opening scene which made me wanna cut my wrists would go on forever. This movie sucked the little will to live out of me in these quarantine times. Jeez

What more do you need to know. Nothing really happens in the movie. Even with a shoe string budget I expected more. This was just bad. No idea why ANYBODY is giving this a higher score.

This movie truly is a love letter to movies from the 50s. You can tell the director/writer really cared about these old movies and tv shows. Which is why i was so excited going in to this movie. I saw that he had referenced lots of these old movies its subtle ways and i over that. That is why i was really disappointed that i didn't enjoy it more. I think this could have been vastly improved if it was just tightened up a little bit. I know it is only an hour and 30 long, which shocked my when i saw it because it felt like nearly 2 hours. The scenes kind of meander along at a sluggish pace with nothing rally happening. The first 20 minutes of this movie is a walk home from school. I am not exaggerating. It is just them leaving school and walking home for 20 minutes. Now i will say they try to keep it interesting with the shots and the dialogue is fine but it doesn't take away from that fact that its too long for such a simple scene. I guess you could argue that it is used to set the characters up but i got that with in the first like 3 minutes of meeting them. I honestly think this would have been better as a 20-30 minute episode of The Twilight Zone. Even the 2019 version because there is a good idea somewhere in this movie. Moments had me intrigued, i wanted to know what was going on then you would be hit with nothing happening again. I understand the budget wasn't a lot and that probably contributes to this as they didn't have as much sets and locations. The actors did a good job and they had a lot of work to do as like 90% of this movie is just them talking sometimes with no one else in the room so i think they did a good job. The only reason that i think you should watch it is because there are good ideas in here and i think this writer/directer could make great films in the future. I think he did the best he could with the budget. Just bare in mind that is can drag.