A group of
students while doing a documentary about poaching discover the secret world of
trolls.
Incredibly hyped
this is certainly an original proposition. Vampires are so 2010! Now we have
trolls.
This movie
is very smart. The filmmaker went around the limitation of independent cinema
by basically filming pretty normal stuff and pretending is something else. A
fallen tree? Trolls did it. Power outage? Troll did it. A slavine? You know the
drill by now.
Then there
the trolls which are incredibly well realized for a independent production and
could give a run for their money to most big budget movies. We need to go back
to Cloverfield to get a creature so well realized.
Alas not
everything is perfect. This is one of those movies who could benefit from a
more stringent cut. First we wait forever to get to the troll hunting part
which I assume would come to the surprise of no one considering the title. Then
we lose a lot of filming time on trivial situation. Endless shots of our heroes
getting in and out of the cars bring nothing to our experience.
I must also
add that the Shaky Cam effect is in full swing and while Cloverfield managed to
keep it under control and give us a pleasurable experience here we got a vague
sense of sea sickness and a lot of confusion because it wasn’t possible to
understand what’s going on.
The tone of
the movie is strange. We expected a much more serious affair but instead we got
a lot of dark humor. This made the movie very interesting and satirical, I’ll
never forget the troll termination form, but in the end it was mostly missing
in pathos, even during the last battle with the biggest troll. Speaking of
which I honestly couldn’t understand the ending and therefore I left the cinema
puzzled and slightly annoyed but maybe it’s just me.
A must see
just for the sheer originality.
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