Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

mike_bike_kite I know it's billed as a monster movie, hell it's even called Monsters, but for me it was a movie about a single emotion. I'm not even sure if I can say what that emotion was but, for me, it was near perfect. You feel like you're lost and drifting through a strange world you can't explain. It's a world of beauty mixed with a deep undercurrent of worries you can never understand. If you're after monsters or pure science then it's probably not for you but I came away wildly impressed.

personacasus Don't waste your time. The movie is just so bad I was amazed somebody gave it 6.4. How can one possibly have a budget and then film such a trash? The main heroes are absolutely dumb, it is a truly mystery how they survive not only in a so called infected zone, but in a regular routine life. Ugh. Total garbage.

Mr Carrington I expected this to be the same old low budget, alien/ zombie slush but it isn't at all. Its very different. In fact its not about the monsters and whilst their threat lies menacingly in the background the creatures hardly feature until the end.The movie didn't really need to be about monsters, it could easily and probably would have been more genuine had it been about a war-zone or a disease ridden area. The only purpose served by the aliens is to stamp the "lovers meet then part" message in the story.The "extraordinary", is in the acting and the relationship of the two characters, and their empty lives which is frank and realistic and without the usual romantic filling guff. This is set amongst an almost travelogue style backdrop of rural Mexico which is true, gritty and human.A pleasant refreshing movie, weakened only by the glimpse of the somewhat redundant "monsters".

Charles Herold (cherold) When I saw a description of this movie about two people traveling through a terrestrial-monster-infected Mexico, I didn't expect it would be a romance, even though I saw it described as a romance, because, well, alien monsters, right? But this film is closer to It Happened One Night than it is to Attack the Block. Monster movies usually emphasize, in order, 1) monsters, 2) world building, and 3) human relationships. But Monsters flips that order. This is a movie about two people thrown together by adverse circumstances who become close as they travel through a strange yet familiar world. They are fairly ordinary people who do not, as in so many monster movies, wind up doing extraordinary things to survive. They do what most of us would do; hide.The setting is a Mexico with a monster problem. The movie does a wonderful job in creating a very real world. It's lovely when you catch site of wall mural the incorporates aliens or see a truck that has part of a U.S. military part attached. This is a real world that has incorporated its unusual circumstances into normal life, stoically accepting this as the new normal.You might think that, since I was expecting a monster movie, the fact that the movie is 90% monster-less would disappoint me, but it didn't at all. I really liked these two people slowly (very slowly compared to a typical movie romance) getting to know and care for each other as they travel the land. Even the occasional moments of suspense were more about watching these two than watching the monsters.Like the wonderful Colossal, this is not a movie, but rather a movie that takes certain tropes and re-purposes them to make a very different kind of movie. The result is absolutely lovely.