“Ash” Review
There’s a few big names and familiar faces in “Ash” that I had limitedly high hopes for it, perhaps I trusted the trailer a bit too much, but the final product didn’t do it for me. The story has been done many times before where your POV character wakes up with no memory of what’s come before and doesn’t now how they ended up in the situation that they’re in, but know that the situation isn’t great and terrible things are coming for them. My favorite in this genre is “Pandorum”, but “Ash” never rises to the level of a movie that I would want to suggest to anyone. My main complaint is that the movie feels structurally disjointed with the apparent desire to be a slow inner monologue style of film in which everyone is looking at their surroundings in wonder, all while ash falls slowly around them in slow motion, moving very slow. The other film is one that is a frantic strobe-fest with a healthy of body horror thrown in for good measure. Both films would be fine, but this particular combination felt like the glue was rotten and the seams were falling apart, exposing the emptiness within.
I bet a talented fan-editor could turn it into a pretty good movie though, because all the parts of a good movie are here, they just need to be better managed.
