Till Death (2021)

Ambiguous end? Check. Dystopian music? Check. Depressing yet artfully beautiful visuals and rough times? Check. Megan Fox? Check. Bad acting? On her part - unfortunately - check that too.

This could've been a good one.

I love the premise.

Though it took me a while to realize it was in fact not a dream.

It felt like she might as well wake up at any minute. But at the least the knight and savior's not the knight you expect. At least things don't always go according to cliché, though there is an awful lot of hide and seek and unnecessary aggression... though the villains feel real. They do amplify the threat. As do the nuances in the initial conversations between man and wife. You sort of know what's coming. Sort of.

I love how the raindrops on the windshield at the beginning go full circle with the bubbles against the ice at the end. I love how the top-down cityscape comes across almost Sci-Fi like - and dystopian - compared to older movies that portray that same scene. I love the colors, and the mood, and the ice and cold, and Megan is beautiful but...

The fear's not always there.

The special effects aren't all great either - like the initial blast. The camera sways a bit much sometimes, and yet the visuals remain clear. It's a bit artificial like that.

Imagine this, as is, but desperate and gritty, with the entire cast? With the filming too? It could've been brutal.

As it is it's not a bad thriller though. Not bad at all.

It leaves with the cold. Feels don'tchaknow but... with all icy persistence. The knife right in vision was gold. But something is missing. When the ice break's indifferent. Something, that's sold.

 rated 3.5/5: not bad at all