Movie Review: Familiar to a Fault, Ridley Scott's Postapocalyptic 'The Dog Stars' Finds the Genre in Need of New Tricks
Ridley Scott’s adaptation adds action set pieces and uneven pacing, while the review says it borrows little beyond the novel’s title and premise.
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SET in the year 2035, the film depicts the world after the "end of the world," that is, after the flu pandemic that ravaged humanity a few years ago.
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Lodinews.comMovie review: Familiar to a fault, Ridley Scott's postapocalyptic 'The Dog Stars' finds the genre in need of new tricks
Hig (Jacob Elordi) may be the most perfect guy alive, not that he's got much competition. In Ridley Scott's simple-minded sociological study "The Dog Stars," an influenza epidemic wiped out the majority of our squabblesome species sometime during the last…
Review: Familiar to a fault, Ridley Scott's postapocalyptic 'The Dog Stars' finds the genre in need of new tricks
A likable Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin and Guy Pearce star in Ridley Scott's lax adaptation of Peter Heller's poetic pandemic thriller.
With The Dog Stars, Ridley Scott tackles a very declining post-apocalyptic genre in recent years without having in hand a scenario bringing a little new to it. Ridley Scott's "The Dog Stars" post: Nothing new after the apocalypse appeared first on Benzine Magazine.
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