Alex Garland’s “Men” was test-screened last month to polarizing reactions. Expect twisty sci-fi when it comes to Garland’s latest mindbender.
The writer-director of “Ex-Machina” and “Annihilation” is reuniting with A24 for this latest film. Jessie Buckley is set to play a woman who goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside after the death of her ex-husband.
Not much else is known about the film. Regardless, out of the few screening reactions gathered, I read "it is one of the most unhinged things I've ever seen on screen,” “it's a modern horror classic,” the film was superb,” “loved it,” “nothing mind-blowing,” "Jessie Buckley killed it” and “Rory Kinnear was something else".
That’s based off of five reactions I received recently.
Prior to those, I had spoken to two people — one loved it and the other HATED IT. The detractor stated that it was the kind of movie that was striving to be original, but also felt very familiar. A tonal and inconsistent mess. The person who loved it said that it was “unlike anything I had seen before.”
You get where this is going? Reactions are all over the place for this film. It opens on 05.20.22.