takearun Title. The movie doesn't make sense within it's own world that it created. I love mindfuck movies, horror movies, sci-fi, mysteries all of that good stuff and this movie was a poor excuse when it comes to any of those genres. TWO whole hours of my life wasted. Thank you Tom Green !One of a few movies where i'm agreeing with the ratings that imbd gave.

daveb-60761 I'm baffled where there are so many reviews. I think it's more to do with expectation than of the movie itself. I haven't seen the first Monsters and saw this sequel as a standalone. In all honesty this is a brilliant movie, and here's the reason why:This is a movie about human nature - not aliens. It's about the extremes of people when faced with hopelessness. Whether you take the monsters as literal (ie. there's a fight against aliens in the middle east) or as a metaphor for an unsurmountable and 'alien' enemy fighters, the movie highlights: 1. the sacrifice of ones own identity, sanity, family and meaning. and 2. the senseless waste of 'collateral damage' for the greater good for a war that cannot be won.This realisation occurs to soldier as he watches the alien spores after the child dies, and the image of the commander losing his mind as the unstoppable mountain of aliens rise from the sand.The purpose of the aliens is not to create an alien or sci-fi movie. The aliens could just have well been replaced by a deadly virus, killer asteroid, or zombies. It's a story of human apocalypse, and madness of some types of human behaviour when illuminated by this context.

jod_dunlop As mentioned by other folks. This movie isn't all bad.Following on from the excellent first movie they have done a great job in making a suggestive movie. What would you do in a combat situation with the over threat of alien monsters? And how it would affect you over time?Granted the human side is slightly overplayed and possibly overdone but it works well. The alien side is played down but again, threat unknown.Good movie, worth a watch.

Richard Boase This is an excellent movie. Beautifully shot, graded and cast. Well directed, well paced and with good, believable dialogue and characterizations. Horror movies in this genre are traditionally understood as externalizations of the current climate, and Monsters: Dark Continent elevates this tradition to new heights. The central message of the movie is that the Americans are chasing a nightmare/fantasy in Iraq and the middle east of their own making, and the more they kill, the worse things get. The reason I think, most people have canned this movie is because they prejudge it as racist (Dark Continent) or misguidedly expect it to be an entertainment movie. But this is presumably because those watching are not able to make the conceptual leap between watching a movie for entertainment purposes and creating a movie for the purposes of awakening mass consciousness towards a single, important issue: How the monsters spawn after they're killed is an allegorical play on how terrorism and extremism is seeded by American forces, through heavy-handed military intervention in domestic and local affairs in the middle east. Terrorism and the war in the middle east has been a pervasive theme throughout the first two decades of this millennium, and American audiences aren't comfortable with mixing reality and fantasy in a way which forces them to confront an uncomfortable truth. They want Entertainment or Documentary. Not allegory. This is a film with an extraordinarily simple message. Just like the first one, where the monsters represented middle America's fear of Mexico and South America generally, the monsters in the second film represent America's fear of Arabs and Islam. It's illustrative, but sadly was not well received, and so while it describes the Americans hysteria neatly, most, if not all of the reviews I've read of this film missed its central idea. A sad reflection of modern American critical culture!