Harbinger Down

I’m especially sorry for the lower rating. I’ve been looking forward to Harbinger Down for about two years, I liked this Kickstarter-funded project from the beginning, mainly because of it’s honest approach to practical effects. The creators are obviously enthusiasts who want to pay tribute to Carpenter’s The Thing and I appreciate their intention, but unfortunately, they didn’t manage to turn that into a particularly good film. Surprisingly, the problems begin with the effects, in some scenes they look nice, but more often than not they look fake, almost digital sometimes (I’m suspicious to almost being certain that at least in some places they used CGI), and the impression from them is affected by a franticly shaky camera. But even worse is the direction, there isn’t a single interesting scene, the actors look confused and their characters go through the story with the same expression, so the unfortunate situations they face don’t have a chance to grip the viewer. The music is run-of-the-mill. The impression it leaves is similar as the experience from a more eager monster B-movie from the SyFy Channel. (07/08/2015)

Lance Henriksen does his thing, as do the other actors, but it's not them who can impress you. In the end, it's really just the special effects that succeeded, but unfortunately, the rest was somewhat neglected. Harbinger Down is a B-movie, it's just a regular B-movie that has good special effects, but otherwise nothing. At least for me, it reached average. But that’s all, unfortunately. (05/04/2017)