People wake up in confused and bizarre circumstances, not knowing where they are or what has happened... That can be a really fine premise for a film, but if it is present, we the audience have a right to expect enlightenment AT LEAST at the same pace as the protagonists.
In this film, rather soon a person from "beyond the current situation" (it turns out spatially and temporally) comes a-knocking at the barricaded door our assemblage of characters find themselves behind, they DO let him in (why?), and he DOES know what is going on, yet DOES NOT sit down and tell the full, exact story, but merely reveals the odd soundbite and then tells the group that they need to help him. The group is idiotically and unnaturally and outrageously prepared to accept knowing a fragment of the full story (presumably on the ludicrous basis that the gaps will be filled in as time passes), and proceed with various random-looking tasks.
There is some talk of a pandemic, he wears a hazmat suit, yet barricaded windows offer protection and, while the streets cannot be travelled, tunnels can. Nobody in the film tries to elucidate why that should be, so why on Earth should I?
This is a completely unnatural situation and a fatal blow to the film, however atmospheric or creepy or pseudo-intellectual it might try to be.
A dumb and unrealistic premise can only bluff its way through as mysterious or complex for so long - and in the case of "Collider" that period lasts maybe 15 minutes.
Sorry, willing as I was initially, I just switched off and deleted...
In this film, rather soon a person from "beyond the current situation" (it turns out spatially and temporally) comes a-knocking at the barricaded door our assemblage of characters find themselves behind, they DO let him in (why?), and he DOES know what is going on, yet DOES NOT sit down and tell the full, exact story, but merely reveals the odd soundbite and then tells the group that they need to help him. The group is idiotically and unnaturally and outrageously prepared to accept knowing a fragment of the full story (presumably on the ludicrous basis that the gaps will be filled in as time passes), and proceed with various random-looking tasks.
There is some talk of a pandemic, he wears a hazmat suit, yet barricaded windows offer protection and, while the streets cannot be travelled, tunnels can. Nobody in the film tries to elucidate why that should be, so why on Earth should I?
This is a completely unnatural situation and a fatal blow to the film, however atmospheric or creepy or pseudo-intellectual it might try to be.
A dumb and unrealistic premise can only bluff its way through as mysterious or complex for so long - and in the case of "Collider" that period lasts maybe 15 minutes.
Sorry, willing as I was initially, I just switched off and deleted...