The Watchers 4K 2024 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

A young American woman, Mina, lives in Galway, Ireland, and works in a pet store. She goes to deliver a parrot to a zoo near Belfast, and soon the car breaks down in the middle of a dense forest. Night approaches, something terrible is looming, and Mina finds refuge in a strange glass-walled house where three people live. They have to follow certain rules to avoid being caught by the so-called caretakers - monsters who come to watch them every night.

Review 4K Movie

Ishana Shyamalan's full-length directorial debut was excellent: the daughter follows in her father's footsteps and delivers a similarly mystical, sometimes horror, sometimes acutely social, performance that is quite fascinating and interesting to watch. Only positive impressions from what I saw and extreme recommendations to read it to compare how M. Knight and his successor direct. Give or take the same field of berries, where the proverbial 'two-edged stick' works: some people will enjoy it, and some will spit.

I'll speak for myself at once: it was the directing that 'sold' me on this movie, and I didn't miss out. Fascinating script, logical and not drawn out plot, excellent setting together with scenery, as well as the semantic load about primitive human cruelty and its consequences through generations. Conceptually it's reminiscent of Garland's 'Ex Machina', idea-driven - Marsaan's 'Ichchi', plot-wise - any default thriller about a collective in a confined space (e.g. the same recent 'From' series from the makers of 'Lost'), so if you don't push yourself into a certain genre and watch everything, you'll probably catch the same vibe on the end credits. I like both the writing and the direction of the movie: dark, oppressive, it's unclear until the last what's really going on.

The acting is ok: Dakota Fanning is not as 'crash' as her younger sister, but she plays well. You believe and empathize. Georgina Campbell, Oluen Fouere and Oliver Finnegan in the background help to move the story forward in every possible way, and they do it well. The camerawork, editing and sound design are top notch.

'The Watchers' is an example of the apple not falling far from the tree, and that's a good thing. Ishana has entered the field of Big Cinema with both feet, opening the door wide, and I hope to see more than one more thriller/horror she directs with her crew in the future. Far from silly, dark in places, but by all means an entertaining 'hour forty' movie that can give you both suspense and food for thought.