The Fields (2011)

Sadly Over-hyped

Lack of good storyline.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Really, really bad. I will watch a movie to the end if there is at least one redeeming characteristic; like acting, costumes, etc. Unfortunately, there isn't even one thing to focus on in this film in my opinion. The acting was so bad I started to fast forward to see if there was something interesting on the horizon, like better actors, a tangible story line, just anything! But every time I stopped and watched a little more, I just kept asking myself what the heck is this? The characters are all unlikable, nothing really happens, everything is dark and dirty, and there is really no point to anything as far as I could tell. I guess it is just about a dysfunctional family who gets scared by unkown people for an unknown reason. Maybe this could be interesting with the right actors and atmosphere, but everything was too inaccessible to me, even though I spent summers on my own grandparents' farms in the 70's and remember being freaked out by various things they allude to here (old toys, vast open fields we weren't supposed to wander in, etc.). The film is just boring, poorly acted, and not coherent or atmospheric enough to work.

For all intents and purposes, The fields presents itself as a farm style horrorflick.... it's NOT! The movie starts out with no lead in to these characters so that you can care about them or even know their motivation, but here's a little boy watching a dad point a gun at his mother's head! The mom has the cops come, the dad's not arrested because apparently the sheriff is the mothers farther??? That's convenient, and mom's having a talk with her mom about where she's going to send her son until they straighten things out... to the father's parents, because at least there she doesn't have to worry about him being touched inappropriately! WAIT..WHAT?!?!Her dad's the sheriff.. this movie just started... what is going on please?!?! And that's the tone of the whole movie, there's TONS of filler, and then they drop bombs almost in whispers, like they don't matter, and that was never brought up again! They sent him to his Dad parents farm, where his fear of the things he's hearing and seeing about the Manson family on tv and radio is being backed up by insane hippie drifters whacked out on SOMETHING who are terrorizing the family, and likely? Stole and killed the 2 family dogs and a young woman, whose body the boy finds in the corn fields. Gramps keeps having what looks like heart attacks during these nights of terror, but no one thinks to check him out, or take him to the hospital... the hippies seem to be led by a helper on a milk farm next door who creeps out the kid, we don't know why but he seems to know a lot about the kid and be friendly with him at first, then all of a sudden the kid freaks out on him! The whole thing, and ESPECIALLY the ending is just BIZARRE... it leaves you wondering "What did I just watch?" And in the end they just wrapped up the pieces, but honestly I'm not sure i understood what happened. The kid made the movie, everyone else's acting was AWFUL .. the cinematography was beautiful, and there was enough to keep me there once I started watching, I just wish I hadn't started!

A long and winding road leading nowhere, The Fields is a mish-mash of disconnected set pieces with no real plot. While the desaturated cinematography and moody design set a general tone of gloom, and much of the acting is solid, The Fields focuses on fragmented back story, rather than a beginning, a middle, and an end. There's no connection between Steven's parents' domestic disputes and Steven's meanderings around the farm. So why did the producers even follow that storyline? Of course, one could ask the same question about any aspect of this "mystery," and ultimately, about The Fields itself. 5 points for competence, but -2 for making me waste my time.

This is not a horror movie,It's drama from the beginning to the end,I must say that I quiet enjoyed the first hour of it, my imagination was exploding with scary and crazy thoughts but i don't what happens at the end of it exactly.. when the moment comes for this piece to explode with emotion and scary people nothing of that happens No it gets boring and weird it gets like those old horror movies that nobody wants to watch anymore because it's well "BORING" IT'S it's it's just "WEIRD"! I must give the kid some compliments because he deserves it...It's just a drama, If you want to watch it anyway please do me a favor "Just watch the half of it you will enjoy it" Thank you