The Watchers
When 28-year-old artist Mina finds shelter after getting stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers that are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
- Released: 2024-06-07
- Runtime: 102 minutes
- Genre: Mystery, Thrillers
- Stars: Siobhan Hewlett, Alistair Brammer, Kya Brame, Shane O'Regan, Shannon Antonia, Hannah Howland, Anthony Morris, Kofi De Graft Jordan, Cara Steele, Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Seán T. Ó Meallaigh, Jacob Greenway, Diarmuid de Faoite, Andrea Bechis, Ann Marie Horan, Jim Tighe
- Director: Ishana Night Shyamalan
Comments
- cmdown-50506 - 4 July 2024
Move over M Night there's a new Shyamalan in town
First of all the movie is a pretty decent watch, a little predictable but that doesn't take away the enjoyment (at least for me it doesn't anyway)
With that being said I think the reason I rated this so high is due to the fact I have absolutely hated the last few M Knight films to be released to the point I was questioning whether he has lost his touch so seeing his daughter debut with something I enjoyed is great.
I look forward to her future projects and will go into them the same way I used to go into her father's projects, with high hopes.
The atmosphere is great and the premise is awesome. Definitely would recommend. - IMDbKeepsDeletingMyReviews - 2 July 2024
Bad film disguising as a decent one
And there we already have the most interesting aspect of THE WATCHERS: it samples and copies ideas and concepts of other, better films and tries to mimic as a noteworthy film. Just like the faeries in the film itself. How meta!
Don't be fooled, though. THE WATCHERS may look interesting and is indeed well shot and produced, but the substance of it is a failure of fairy-tale proportions and a prime example of good old nepotism. Any no-name first time director would have failed to get this film financed, rightfully so.
Made from what seems to be a bad first draft of something that might have some interesting core idea behind it, THE WATCHERS mostly delivers clumsy directing with poor pacing, bad timing and badly contrived dialogue - decently acted, though.
Too much of what we watch doesn't make any sense whatsoever: how is it possible that you never noticed a huge metal trap door under some thin rug?
Where does the electric power come from?
Where did the long rope come from they use to go down into the faerie hole?
How come a battery from an old camera is still charged?
If faeries kill every human, who was able to mate and create the halfling?
How did the halfling not know of the bunker when she was right there, as proven by the videos?
Why did the dumb male (whose hair was too short for the time he had been caught there) suddenly believe the faerie's deception in the end - just to get killed and create some sense of danger?
How did the forest make a car disappear and get everyone confused, except when they followed a parrot that for some reason didn't just fly away?
These are just questions from the top of my head, and I'm sure that if you would look for more plot holes, you'd find one almost every minute of this fantastically idiotic film.
Just like the two main characters who hide under some twigs and don't get noticed by the faeries, this heap of dung hides itself under some twigs of pretense and won't get noticed by those who mimic intelligence. So... if this fooled you, you, the watcher of THE WATCHERS, are the faerie! How meta!
