Wounds

This movie is the most pointless project I have ever witnessed. The plot is nowhere to be found and there is NO ENDING! Cheating people to watch this movie should be punished with a long prison sentence. I have never ever felt so cheated of time from watching a movie before. There is no point whatsoever to even consider to watch this garbage. How can a director even think to put his name to this crap? It's totallly beyond my comprehension to understand that. I would rather watch paint dry for 24 straight hours than even watch the trailer of this "movie". SHAME ON ALL INVOLVED IN THIS PRETENTIOUS WASTE OF EVERYTHING!

At the end I found myself wondering if I'd blinked and missed a vital plot point because nothing was explained (and not in a "ooh ambiguous and intelligent" way). Good performances from all involved but as a massive fan of Under The Shadow, I found myself very disappointed.

My expectations for this film was very high because of the cast and that Babak Anvari's last film, "Under The Shadow" was exceptional to say the very least. Wounds starts like a mysterious and disturbing horror film something to do with a Will (Armie Hammer) a bartender discovering a smartphone and cockroaches. He lives a normal life with his girlfriend Carrie (Dakota Johnson) and things starts to change after he witnesses a huge fight in his bar. It's first 30 minutes is very promising but once we start going to the second act it starts to fall apart and the film relies more on "holy s**t" movements rather than a convincing plot. The film ends ambiguously and doesn't really give us an idea about Babak wanted to explore. Aside from Armie's brilliant performance there isn't a lot to take from Wounds. A run of the mill decent yet wasted potential horror film.

"Wounds" turned out to be the kind of horror that's right up my isle, unsettling, moody, even gnarly & with occult themes involved. Despite its one major flaw which got everyone throwing around the well below average ratings, I'm here to defend it. "Wounds" can be best described as a mood piece, it's a slow burning drama for the most part and the aforementioned flaw is that there are no fireworks at the end of it - We'll return to that later. I was already satisfied with the movie in the first 10 minutes, many qualities like great acting, good dialogue, effective atmosphere & pleasant cinematography manifested themselves and stayed till the end. I'm not going to spoil the story, I think it's for the best you know no more than what the synopsis and trailer shows you. To describe it a little, the story is quite narrow, mostly revolves around Armie Hammers character and his, I'd like to say, descended into madness. I have a huge love for occult themes in horror movies & rarely anything like that comes along, the last I remember was a horror indie "Pyewacket". "Wounds" strong suit is definitely the legitimately creepy atmosphere, supported by solid performances, top tier sound design & well done fx, some of it practical. Visually I can't pick on it at all. I enjoyed the fact that a lot of the creepiness factor was in the clashes between characters, just in the conversations, tension and the impending doom can be felt, if you let it. Then comes the ending which, yes, felt underwhelming, but I can't disregard the whole movie because of it & that's why I didn't give it more than a 7. I would've. A lot of movies that I can call mood pieces - a lot of them have little to no substance, they sacrifice plot for the sake of atmosphere building. Personally, atmosphere is one the most important parts in movies for me & sure, if it also has substance, even better. "Wounds" is a flawed movie with an objectively highly underwhelming and cut-off ending, but before that there are 90 minutes filled with dark atmosphere, dread and quality filmmaking in almost all its aspects. I enjoyed it a lot. My rating: 7/10.

Had no clue what was going on throughout the whole film and the characters were so boring. The only reason I watched until the end was in hopes of finding out what it was all about- but nope didnt happen.