Monsters: Dark Continent (2015)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Fresh and Exciting

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's 10 years after Monsters. In the Middle East, the US military struggles to fight both the monsters and insurgents. Staff Sgt Frater has served 17 years. In Detroit, best friends Michael Parkes, Frankie Maguire, Karl Inkelaar, and new father Sean Williams head off as green soldiers.I don't know how much Gareth Edwards has to do with this production. I don't know if he could help as the director. It's not strictly the director's fault. It's more about the writing. It's a bunch of characters that I don't know and don't care about. The monsters are back but this is lifeless. One would think that the US military would draw back out of the Middle East to consolidate the homeland defense. After Monsters, a sequel should be about stemming the tide on American soil. The original was a happy surprise. This one is a disappointment but not necessarily a surprising one.

My expectations went south in a hurry. Monsters take up mere moments of the screen time. The dark continent is now another name for Afghanistan. All the fast forwarding in the world will not make this movie what it is implied to be. But on the other hand, not totally worthless as a war movie.It has been about ten years since humongous tentacled creatures began trying to take over our planet. These monsters seem closer and closer to occupying the entire globe and the military is at its wits end trying to fight these horrid things off. In desperation, the military is lowering its standards for enlisting. Four young men from Detroit think they are hard and smart enough to help the army fight monsters.The writers, Tom Green and Jay Basu, sneak some monsters into the plot that has an American platoon trying to extract ambushed soldiers that are trapped in the alien infested Middle East. I am guessing the combination of the few monsters along with the vulgarity of guts, gore, violence, heartbreak and tribulations of warfare with the Taliban makes for a strong R rating. This movie lasts right at two hours and expect to leave tired. Maybe with more monsters and a bigger budget this could be a real thriller.Cast includes: Johnny Harris, Sam Keeley, Nicholas Pinnock, Jesse Nagy, Kyle Soller, Joe Dempsie and Uriel Emil.

As mentioned by other folks. This movie isn't all bad.Following on from the excellent first movie they have done a great job in making a suggestive movie. What would you do in a combat situation with the over threat of alien monsters? And how it would affect you over time?Granted the human side is slightly overplayed and possibly overdone but it works well. The alien side is played down but again, threat unknown.Good movie, worth a watch.

Yep, kind of spoiler is here.The point of the movie is such: The current US political machine (regime) is a true monster. They planted the extraterrestrial creatures in the Middle East (some satellite has crushed in the region that's why the new infected zone has emerged in the region too in addition to Mexican one from the first movie). They are devastating the region as no one else trying to fight the contamination (as we see in the movie most of the sufferings of the locals come as a collateral damage — a really huge one — from US military strikes on the aliens, and local militias are starting fight back, because US forces for them — and for US troops themselves too — are scarier than alien beasts). It also happens that in the case the brute force isn't effective at all, because it leads not to an inhibition and solution of the problem, but to much more widespread contamination and aggravation (In the end main character stares aghast how from under the desert some tremendously huge horny Satan comes to the surface — the end).It is clear and straight metaphor of monstrous US foreign policy, which directly and indirectly gave the birth to wide range of terrorist groups and movements in the Middle East in the process of removing of local governments, then they pretended to fight the terrorists devastating the local countries in the process, then — as outcome of all of that — much more sinister forces have been emerged (ISIS like ones) and some unpleasant consequences (may be for all of us, not just for the Middle East) just follow.The story tells us, that though US troops do their monstrous job, they are not monsters as themselves personally. The policy tortures them in it's own way too. The question they rise is simple: «What am I doing here?» The question which the movie rises: Who is the real Monster in whose interests all this happens?The movie maybe is not really entertaining, but it has a message.