The Watchers (2024)

Uwe Boll plays a bit part has himself in one of the best films of 2023: Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.

Some interesting ideas in this, but they certainly are not gracefully implemented in the scenario. It feels like the characters never figure out anything by themselves. They always need some other character or some document to do chunks of exposition that move the plot forward. Very lame. To be fair, this is based on a book, so it may very well be that these issues are inherited from the source material or that this type of construction works better in book form. At the end of the day though, fix it or don't adapt it? Not awful like Tarot, but not good. The cast does what it can with what it has, and the direction is nothing special (be it in a good or bad way).

I think I liked the idea of this movie..? But a fuck ton of plot holes with the visual aids, and the concept of time in reality. How the fuck did they get full cement pours and multi-ton transportation of those piping elements, much less that single pane of a glass wall, out into the middle of a forest that wipes the slate clean every single night?

All that aside