The Reeds
So this movie actually started out pretty strong - The plot line involves six friends setting off into the English countryside to rent a boat to sail through
Norfolk Broads, a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English county of Norfolk. The direction and cinematography is absolutely stunning as we pan out over the rivers and the tall, thick reeds that surround the waterways. The clean panning shots really serve to frame a believable feeling of helpless and isolation when our heroes inevitably get lost and their boat stranded.
I was
hoping at this point that our creepy reed maze would be home for a nice little swamp monster movie... Instead,
The Reeds turns into a fairly run-of-the-mill ghost story complete with bad writing, no character development, poor special effects, and a really uninspired and predictable
lineage reveal ending (I can't even express how much I HATE those kind of "twists").
Nothing really new here, or really worth seeing. It's a shame to waste that great setting on a poorly thought out story.
2.5/5