Ghosts of War

It started off ok, the ok/meh cast was sufficient (although I find Thawites to be very mediocre, and bland all at once in everything he plays) and the premise was good. But there wasn't enough good acting to get this over the finish line. It felt more meh than anything. And the ending was going well until the very last scene which was absolutely, positively and unequivocally nonsensical. Two stars for the effort but this was definitely a misfire. I guess this was the supposed "scary" version of Source Code...but it wasn't.

This film start with a soldier "Chris" seeing an unknown person at the woods, and a bunch of soldiers chatting scene! As turnout, this film is about a bunch of wounded soldiers deploy at Afghanistan taking a simulation World War II test, and the act eventually summon the supernatural force into human world! Entire film full of boring conversation, and annoying overuse scene! Such as, overuse of the dreaming scene, overuse of the jump scare scene, and overuse of the searching things scene! Make the film unwatchable! The action scene have explosion and quite bloody at certain point, but overall not intense, and low satisfaction! At the end, we found out Chris actually in the simulation lab! Chris suggest him back to the simulation test to dealing with the supernatural force! Chris back to the woods, and no fighting scene at all, just end like that! That's it! Really wasting time to watch!

Beautifully shot with great cinematography, but the story gradually disappoints because its thematic ambitions add more clutter than depth to a story that's most effective at its simplest. The convoluted "twist" either needed to be omitted, or expanded upon with another 15+ minutes. It's as if the budget ran out and everyone just wrapped it up as fast as they could with no regard for a cohesive storyline. It's a shame, because it had potential. It's a generous 6/10 from me.

So the start of this movie was pretty good, acting very good, great story. Then suddenly it turns things around and you get to know the 'real' story. However, at the very end they just 'stop' the movie and that's it. It could have been so much better, the ending simply ruined it completely for me.