Monolith

Dialogue driven slowburn. The premise made me think of *Archive 81* (series on Netflix) with someone doing some dangerous sleuthing in a remote location with the help of physical media, or in this case digital media. The podcast aspect is interesting and the mystery was intriguing the whole runtime. They picked the perfect actress for the role, she's excellent at doing facial reactions to audio. Very crisp sound. Atmospheric. Really nice filming location and cinematography but with the podcast aspect I kept asking myself "is the video relevant?" and it kinda isn't for a good while (it actually takes the imagination away) but the third act requires video for sure. It got too slow towards the middle and was starting to lose me until the reveal. Not a bad twist but it felt like a weird turn in comparison to the rest of the movie.

I was quite invested in the first half. It lost me at the climax and conclusion a bit. Enjoyed the actor's performance. She was great. 5.3 overall. Somewhat unfair that lands at my 18th percentile (on criticker). It's better than that, but just too half baked for my liking on the whole.