Dark Watchers: The Women in Black (2012)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Good concept, poorly executed.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

I love B movies, I grew up on cheap monster movies and they are a pleasure of mine. Saying that, know this. Men in Black Dark Watcher was beyond horrible. Easily the worst movie I have ever seen and thats after sitting through small town film fests. The lack of story was attempted to be covered by strange angles, fish eye lens tricks and and odd distortions which just make any attempt at taking the movie seriously impossible. The dialog was junk and the special effects, while low grade even for a B movie would have been passable if they didn't try to pile up multiple effects destroying every scene. The focus seemed mostly to have every female in the movie wear as little as possible and choose between two acting methods, stupid as possible or wet your pants scared. Neither worked. To sum up: Horrible acting, too many cheap special effects, horrible camera and cheap story. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Not even worth watching to make fun of.

For me the film showed a fresh view of film making that I have not seen before. This involved interesting views and shots that helped capture what the director was trying to show. I enjoyed the individual performances and the shot locations were beautiful. The music was in touch with the motive and reflected the mood of the characters. There were also some moments that made me laugh, which just showed the versatility of the lead characters. overall a different approach to film making that showed inventiveness. Looking forward to seeing what Philip Gardiner will come out with next. As previous form has shown, we can surly be in for wildly different experience.

Going into this film thinking about the MIB franchise would potentially ruin a good Fear of the unknown dramatisation. The film started a little slow for me with some very arty woodland and coastal shots and some eirie music but don't be put off as the scenery was very nice to look at, then it picked up. As small budget movies go this has a really interesting Idea that kept me gripped, there was a feel of a documentary in most scenes which had me wandering if it was real at times and the cast seemed really relaxed with their surroundings until it happens. Towards the end of the film they looked to be really fearing for their lives. Overall when the film had finished I was satisfied with what I had watched, a spooky, quirky sci-fi. My favourite part of it was the blonde lead she made me chuckle at times and then had me very worried for her safety. All in all I do recommend you watch this film but only if you like the strange and wonderfully weird.

This is not a sequel to those other movies,This effort is based on facts as we know them and governments make us privy to.Philip Gardiner has brought us similar efforts,Perhaps not as successfully as this outing.There are hot chicks,men in black and a alien or two.This is filmed very unusually with almost a documentary feel and yet has elements reserved for some cable channels.The MAN IN BLACK has some eerie moments with the women in scenes by themselves and sometimes as a same sex coupling.The aliens come off as a negative image ( literally) and a pawn for MIB : Dark Watchers .Much promise, great title with excellent timing of release and the girls are easy on the disc.