HOLD THE DARK

                           Hold The Dark: Brutal Brutal and Brutal..

 
Summoned to a remote Alaskan village to search for the wolves that killed three children, a wolf expert soon finds himself unravelling a harrowing mystery.

 
If Netflix put in much effort into working the mystery than presenting the brutality of the story, this would have been an award winner.  One thing that perhaps got this movie so intriguing to viewers is the expectation contrasted with the reality. What I personally went into this movie hoping to see was totally different from what I got. The plot twist from the first 30 minutes was gut wrenching, and appealing to viewers. It however left a lot of questions begging for answers, and yet the producers offered none. It's quite crazy and disturbing that Netflix once again did a movie without an origin and without a planned end, a movie that once again lost the viewers; interestingly, lost at the very end. Perhaps it's the type of movie left with no reasonable conclusion, just in case any person with enough cojones chooses to write a sequel. There absolutely is enough content to write a sequel, just from the unanswered questions.
   Talking about the story, the story is amazing, and the storytelling is brilliant. The producers have been able to tell the story without much in the way of dialogues. The concept itself was amazing, and it's metamorphosis into the plot we got was phenomenal. The conflict concept would have been brilliant if a lot of effort was put into developing it. The producers and the writers definitely paid no attention to developing the conflict. Viewers prefer a movie that doesn't have a solid conflict before the characters develop around the plot. It is always better for the characters to develop with the plot, than for the characters to confront an already developed conflict. This is the concept that Netflix got absolutely wrong, and it affected the general feel of the movie, as it thus failed to be relatable.
   We cannot say much about the acting, but we can at least venture to say that the cast ensemble was not a bad one. We may not say the cast was brilliant, but it is nothing exceptional.
   The conclusion to the movie is perhaps it's most controversial part. It totally failed to communicate it's idea. We were not impressed and we could not venture any conclusions for the movie from the little dialogues offered. It is a movie you may not want to waste money and effort downloading, unless you have very very spare time and money and an avid lover of unexplained violence. 

  We at FCA will generally give a consensus low rating for the movie, for weak conflict, poor conclusion, and generally, too many unanswered questions. We will however level the rating a bit for its outstanding presentation of brutality, depiction of nature at its most disturbing point.
  Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Julian Black Antelope
Directed by: Jeremy Saulnier
Produced by: Russell Ackerman, Eva Maria Daniels, Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, John Schoenfelder
Written by: Macon Blair
Based on: Hold the Dark by William Giraldi
FCA is undecided on whether recommendation is in the best interests of our readers or an advice to stay very far away. It depends on what piques your fancy.
FCA's AppR : 6.3/10