SanEat
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Claire Dunne
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Gary
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
SnoopyStyle
Hazel (Bella Thorne) suffers from debilitating agoraphobia. Her mother Dee (Kyra Sedgwick) takes her to a desert treatment center. She is transported in a box inside a van along with other passengers. Suddenly, the van is attacked by sibling bandits and a girl is kidnapped. In order to save her dying mother, Hazel faces her fears to find help.Not enough happens to make this thrilling. The characters are split up. They set up something but more needs to be done with it. It climaxes with a convoluted Mexican standoff. Much of it is unreasonable but mostly, it lacks tension or thrills.
jtncsmistad
From thequickflickcritic.blogspot.com/ I am forever a sucker for movies set in the wide open expanse of the American west. This penchant is what sucked me into seeing the low budget dramatic thriller "Big Sky".Now admittedly I don't know what severe agoraphobia looks like. But I imagine that Bella Thorne does a pretty damn good job of depicting how this insidious psychological affliction debilitates and paralyzes those who can not bear interaction with the outside world. And Kyra Sedgwick as her less-than-model yet loving mom and the consummate acting pro is first-rate despite being rendered incapacitated early on in the proceedings. There's your propers, kids. The rest of "Big Sky" is so implausible, inexplicable or just downright impossible it loses it's way pretty quickly, never to regain any true traction.Make it a big whiff on "Big Sky".
Emma Mueller
I watched this movie because I stumbled upon it and thought "why not?" and let me tell you it was SO BORING. It kind of just went on and on. The scenes were dragged out and the plot was incredibly slow. And Bella Thorne disappointed me. Had it not been stated in the movie, I might not have known that she had agoraphobia -- she was scared at all the wrong points and fine at all the wrong points. On the up side, I thought Aaron Tveit and Frank Grillo were FANTASTIC, especially Aaron Tveit. I felt like he gave his character a personality that I sympathized with when the script offered so little for him to work from, and his disorder was so believable. I must say, I was incredibly impressed with his performance. I was less impressed with the movie overall.
ShazaliSharaini
Not good. Spoiler!OK, we understand you have issues... being agoraphobic and all,.. but, as soon as you see people, you gotta tell them quickly that your mom got shot.I don't know if there are people like this. She walks slowly, yeah, OK, because she's afraid being outside.But when seeing the first real person, she acts like "Oh, look! A shirtless village idiot! Is he real or a mirage! Oh, he's real all right, and he says he's got a bike. Looks like he's stone and he's blabbering about someone named Eve. Let's entertain him and I will just limp along...Hey, waitaminute... I am not agoraphobic anymore!" Urgh... If you still want to check it out, be my guest. Don't say I didn't warn you.Unless, you have insomnia!
