michael_balding
Seemed to be a lot of, "Amarica kill the terrorising aliens, the aliens didn't deserve it, but when America does kill the Terororising aliens, the terrorising aliens exponentially grow in number and ferocity."
One scene showed a girl who sympathised with the terrorising alien, having empathy for the little scratch the American had on his head. It felt a bit like she was saying "I know possum u have a boo boo, you poor pettle. Now let me go spend my caring on the TERRORISing aliens... poor buggers get all this emotional grief just from lumbering about like a peaceful land whale!!"
ametysa
As a war movie, this could be rated much higher, but it pretends to be sci-fi/horror movie. It is not. It is a war movie with many human monsters, a few special effect monsters thrown in to pretend it is sci-fi/horror and unlikable characters (at least for me). If you want a movie about a group of young men going to war and how they react to the horrors of it, I am sure you can find other, much better movies that don't pretend to be something other than they are.
Andy_Aitken
I watched this movie expecting monsters galore and soldiers all up in arms trying to stop them.
However the movie really isn't about that, it's about loss and the feeling of really losing soldiers you were entrusted to protect as a leader.
The "monsters" seem to be the humans in this movie and the actual "monsters" are just innocent creatures moving across the landscape which poses the question as to are we the monsters?
Leofwine_draca
I should admit from the start that I was no fan of the original MONSTERS, which I found to be an arty bore. Sadly, this terrible sequel is even worse, a near-plot less affair that manages to convey a weird apocalyptic world populated by a giant alien race co-existing alongside mankind. However, much of this is mere subtext and instead DARK CONTINENT seems to be your typical men-on-a-mission war film.It's gritty and hand-held throughout, but suffers hugely from an excruciatingly lunk-headed script which is full of profanity and no wit. There's a lot of screaming, shouting, and crying, which all gets very tiresome very quickly. The CGI effects are used sparingly and are pretty good, but for me the writing is the thing and it's really poor here. It's a shame, as a couple of the main actors have been great elsewhere (Johnny Harris in THIS IS ENGLAND, Joe Dempsie in GAME OF THRONES) but they're really struggling here.