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Jack Sparrow
KJ's Leading Idiot
Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:15 pm Posts: 36923
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Oxygen (2021)
Quote: Oxygen (French: Oxygène) is a science fiction thriller film directed and produced by Alexandre Aja, from a screenplay by Christie LeBlanc. As part of an American-French co-production, it stars Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric and Malik Zidi. The film was released by Netflix on May 12, 2021
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Sat May 15, 2021 10:05 am |
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Dil
Forum General
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:48 pm Posts: 8942 Location: Houston, Texas
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Re: Oxygen (2021)
I wasn't crazy about this at all, but I can understand if other people enjoy it more. Melanie Laurent is great here and there are some genuinely tense scenes within the claustrophobic location, but I could never get that invested in the story or the characters.
I think I just prefer Aja's horror movies over stuff like this or The 9th Life of Louis Drax which I wasn't a big fan of either and coming off of Crawl which I thought was awesome made this even more dissapointing for me.
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Sat May 15, 2021 11:47 am |
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Jack Sparrow
KJ's Leading Idiot
Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:15 pm Posts: 36923
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Re: Oxygen (2021)
Didn't work for me as well. A similar themed Ryan Reynolds' Buried handled this much better. The phone calls here makes really no sense so a lot of those took me away from the story and there aren't enough thrills to keep you glued throughout. The movie also keeps on expanding the world which wasn't really required here. The reveal of being a clone adds nothing to the main conflict. Aja does keep things moving but after Crawl this was an odd choice for him.
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Tue May 18, 2021 2:44 am |
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 23921 Location: Classified
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Re: Oxygen (2021)
Oxygen starts similiarly to many other "trapped in a box" movies, but I was very impressed with the way the story developed. A horror situation is transformed into sci-fi, but never eases up on the peril. There isn't a dull moment in the second half of this movie. Laurent is also brilliant in her role.
A strong B+, very close to the A-.
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