Direction: Michael Matthews
Country: USA
If you’re craving adventure/fantasy flicks, Love and Monsters can be a valid option. South African director Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles) invites us to join his 24-year old hero, Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien), in a risky 80-mile enterprise to find his girlfriend, Aimee (Jessica Henwick), who has been away from him for seven years due to a Monsterpocalypse.
Traversing monster-filled forests and unruly places, Joel finds the courage to leave his bunker and his colony and sets foot into the wilderness armed with a bow, arrows and his apocalypse diary. Along the way, he adopts a cool stray dog, is helped by a survival expert (Michael Rooker) and his young protégé (Ariana Greenblatt), and fights incredible beasts such as a giant toad, a giant centipede, a Queen Sand-Gobbler, and a monster crab. He also contacts with a dying robot from the advanced Mavis line in the most touching scene of the film.
More eye-catching than cerebral, this feel-good fantasy, conceived and co-written by Brian Duffiels, provides an amusing session.
