Movie #596 .........................."Take Shelter"

Movie #596 "Take Shelter" is a very highly tauted film of 2011, so I was waiting to see it for some time. I was very disappointed --- it is very overrated. It isn't very scary, it's too slow to sustain much suspense with me, and instead of being dark, like it says below, it is more esoteric. Okay, here's why I think the critics think so highly of this film--- they are seeing metaphors to our economic system --- here you have a family man from Ohio, trying to afford money to not only feed his family, but pay for extra help to deal with his little girl who is deaf. He is an oil digger, and then one day it starts to rain oil on him. At least he think it does ---- it is a dream, is it a prophesy, or is it really happening? I found it so slowly paced, that I couldn't stay awake through long passages of it ---- and I tried two times. I finally got through it, but I must say, what I liked best was Jessica Chastain,the wife. She is hard to look away from ---- she's that good. M. Shannon (the husband) usually is that good, and for the most part he is very competent here, but like all the films this year, the story doesn't work enough for him and he came across bland to me. I couldn't wait until the end and when it finally came, I was left wondering ------first, what was the last line he delivered? so that warranted a reshowing of the last scene ---- which helped me with the line, but not much with the meaning. It makes you think that there's no stopping the bad times we are headed for in weather, morals, and our economy. So you really don't need to see this one. Not much to it ---- the critics wrote better criticisms of the film, than the actual writing of the screenplay here.




I rated it 2.8 stars out of 5.
Take Shelter
(2011) R
Michael Shannon stars in this thriller as a small-town family man who, determined to protect his wife and deaf daughter from impending disaster, builds an impenetrable storm shelter in the safety of his own backyard.
Genre:Independent Movies, Thrillers, Independent Thrillers
This movie is:Dark, Suspenseful, Scary