Hunted: what is worth discovering on Disney+ about this horrible science fiction film?

Kicked : when aliens play at being thieves

First feature film directed by Brian Duffield, screenwriter of The nanny AND Underwater, Explosive adolescence revealed in 2020 its director’s talent for appropriate the codes of genre cinema to obtain an interesting proposal. In this project led by Katherine Langford and Charlie Plummer, two high school students fall in love while their classmates’ heads explode without explanation. They then decide to make the most of their life in a chaotic world.

A captivating apocalyptic romantic comedy, located somewhere in the middle Scanner AND 10 good reasons to dump you, which made you want to discover Brian Duffield’s next film. Titled Kickedthis second feature film is another mix of genres with which the director clearly claims the influence of Steven Spielberg and M. Night Shyamalan about his work.

Kicked begins with a day like any other for its heroine, Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever), a young woman who lives in an isolated house and who seems rejected by the inhabitants of her small town because of her troubled past. She therefore spends most of her time alone, visits her mother at the cemetery and writes to her best friend Maude, who is also dead.

That evening everything changes for Brynn. Thinking that she is the victim of a burglary, she realizes it the thing that entered his house is not human. He manages to overcome this creature and realizes that he is an alien. But his nightmare is far from over…

An excellent surprise that is running out of strength

Almost silent, Kicked it manages to reveal all its issues solely through its staging, a feat rare enough to highlight. After introducing his heroine, Brian Duffield very quickly establishes remarkably effective suspense. Some shots recall disturbing movements in the gardenAnd the extraterrestrial, when the mysterious visitor from elsewhere tries to hide. Except that here the visit is absolutely not friendly.

When Brynn tries to escape, the camera movements evoke those of Jurassic Park, Signs AND War of the Worlds, Brian Duffield manages to reveal the intelligence of the alien during a scary game of hide and seek, like Steven Spielberg did with his velociraptors or his T-Rex. The culprit of the home invasion resembles small aliens Encounters of the third kindmore imposing, faster and above all decidedly more aggressive.

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Brian Duffield doesn’t stop at these references and after a first act that takes the form of a home invasion with sauce Mars attacks!, he turns towards the film of body snatchers way The invasion of grave robbers revealing the extent of the aliens’ capabilities and their plan of conquest. The director unfortunately ends up losing his strength and going around in circles trying to connect Brynn’s painful memories to the invasion he is trying to resist.

If the pace drops and certain situations repeat themselves, Hunted still offers several surprising sequences in its second part, especially playing with the different forms of the aliens to offer breathtaking comparisons. Finally, despite a predictable final twist, the film has the merit of exploiting its idea to the full and not giving up its desperate atmosphere in favor of an optimistic conclusion that would have been a challenge. Once again incorporating many elements familiar to fans of the genre, Brian Duffield continues Explosive adolescence a second mastered medleyeven if here there is no real singularity to fully convince.

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Source: Cine Serie

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