1. A very well - resourced basement hospital ward facility on a university campus with power and lighting and no - one else knows anything about it? Yeah right!
2 The main characters just cruise down into it, never bothering to check for potential exits, fire escapes etc. And BTW, when they find themselves locked into said facility, nobody, unbelievably, seems to have a mobile phone.
3 Who's providing all the food, general nursing to the three patients? None of the 4 medical staff we see appear to do anything except write a note in the odd book and watch videos.
4 The so - called secret compartment with the video camera and tapes is conveniently discovered virtually the minute the 2 women walk into the room.
5 Hilariously even though the very first tape they watch incriminates their senior colleague Dr Robert straight up, they do nothing at all about it, though the obvious thing to do, would be to both confront and question him.
6 This rather stupid acquiescence on both their parts, even extends to them both happily accepting that the lift is actually faulty and Robert has actually contacted authorities about having them extracted from the basement facility. They're not in the least suspicious. LOL!
7 During the lockdown stage of the movie, when more discoveries are made and further videos are watched, Robert just seems to disappear from the facility. He's offscreen for some 20 - 30 minutes and no one seems to care or be curious, even though other characters are up to their necks in deep doggy do - do.
8 And what happened to that third patient, the male one who never spoke? He just seems to be completely forgotten about. Why bother even sticking him in the movie?
This is another of those hopeful indie type, low budget horror features, that have an underlying reasonably interesting premise, but then try to achieve success on the back of some really lazy, screen writing. This results in Awoken being more distracting, than frightening, despite some more than competent acting on the part of the cast. A disappointment!
As for the acting ... it is not good. There is the usual overacting and the theatrical over reach in mimics. The dialogue is unnatural and sounds like poorly learned lines.
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