“Before dawn”, criticism: adaptation of the game halfway

If the element is surprising in the game Until dawn (2015) From Supermamine Games – this is his ability to be unpredictable. This, thanks to the endless options that your plot provides when developing your history in a temporary cycle, which is continuously repeated. Device, Until dawnWhich arrives in a movie from David F. Sandberg, is trying to achieve the same. But without reaching a wild sensation of the inevitable danger of initial material. In fact, what is missing in the film, This is confidence that everything that happens can lead to unexpected paths.

Instead, the script Blair Batler and Gary Dauberman has real problems to combine all possible scenarios that he raises at the same time. This, despite the fact that the tape remains more or less, the premise of the game. Or, at least, he uses his curious mechanism to explore with time in a similar way. Thus, the plot focuses on the clover (she is Rubin), a woman obsessed with the disappearance of her sister Melanie (Maya Mitchell). A year after the incident and in order to follow the traces of the missing girl, he goes to the last place where his news was news. Desert valley In which he will try to collect pieces of fate that he could – or not – suffer from Melanie.

In the mission, it is accompanied by an inevitable and diverse group of friends. Max (Michael Chimino), Nina (Odessa Azion, Rimake Hellraiser), Megan (Ji-Yang Yu) and Abel (Belmont Kameli), everyone decided to reveal the secret. But what they do not expect is what begins with a gesture of solidarity in relation to the clover, ultimately becomes a set of violent death. Everything in the middle of the most inexplicable Loop temporary. Something, which will lead them to experience, again and again, Disgusting deaths that will suffer to the death of an uncontrollable and supernatural killer.

Nothing new under the sun in “Dawn”

The film does not seek to give an explanation of what causes what seems to be Marmet’s Day bathes in the blood. In fact, just like the game, the argument provides – in the beginning – there is little information about what is happening. Much less, which is what makes the irresistible killer pursue each of the characters. But while in the original version the secret becomes more exciting every time the player begins his story from scratch, lThe tape becomes messy

Not because of the lack of good ideas. Director David F. Sandberg (Never turn off the light) Raises the idea of ​​an increasingly terrible temporary loop with a series of overlapping scenes. Soon both clover and their other friends will understand that the day is repeated with small variations. And that every decision that they make significantly changes the horror trap that they should face. Graphic deaths that have the only number The most extravagant feeling of blood, to the set of tracks that remain in the passage of victims.

Over time, against

The truth is that the film uses how to come and undergo a chronological line that fragments every time. Step by step, the director turns to another enemy to overcome. One is as cruel as a killer full of resources that pursue the main characters. Much more, in a complex network of situations that act as parts on the board that are formed careful. The fact that he plays in his favor. Therefore, when the film shows consistent killings as a maze of events Apparently, identical, the argument becomes dense and diverse.

So, not being original, the first hour So far, Dwan This is the pleasure of what seems to be a confusion of the temporal lines that overlap with each other. Very similar to Happy Day of your death (2017) Christopher Landon, until the dawn builds his fragmented script with skill. Therefore, every time the killer kills, he leaves on his way This will ultimately give signs of the great and dangerous secret of his personality.

Horrors of horrors that become boring

But instead of developing the idea of ​​a series of murders that are repeated continuously, Until dawn In the end, this is halfway. That when he cannot finish his attractive premise, as more than a treaty tribute to the saga Final destinationThus, the field, an extensive and changing collection of death becomes an endless repetition of the same. Thus, the plot delivers its formula to the limit, not knowing very well What to do to conclude or how to tie the free ends that remain on the road.

It was then that this is missed that the argument looks enough for the material of origin. While in the game, each solution begins to be decisive and decisive for the survival of each character, in his adaptation everything becomes confusing. Especially when a group of possible victims, it seems, cannot draw conclusions that they live. Or in everything, be more than possible canyon meat.

Step by step, the argument is excessively lengthened to count in essence, the same in ten or twelve different methods. In particular, when the feeling that everything is repeated, ultimately becomes exhausting or predictable. For your second half, Until dawn He lost the impulse for much more predictable closure than he should.

Good direction, lazy script

David F. Sandberg again demonstrates that he has a good eye and imagination on terror. After his brief journey through the genre of superheroes with a saga ShazamThe director finds the best of his perverted style in Until dawnDespite the failures of the script, Sandberg knows what to do to maintain tension, as well as, also Use what seems to an endless collection of links to a terrifying movie.

In fact, some of the best scenes in the film are that the strange sense of humor of the director seeks to turn death into pieces of a gloomy mechanism. But, despite his good intentions, the argument fails that his efforts are enough to make Until dawn Something more than a fascinating film. This, despite his huge and wasted potential.