5/26/2023 0 Comments Meander reviewAs if this weren’t enough to start with, she’s also stuck in a strange system of tunnels, complete with traps that begin to emerge as she starts crawling along.Ĭredit: Meander The how and why of this movie might confuse people initially since there are not a lot of strong plot points unless one knows the story. After that, everything fades out, and Lisa wakes up to find herself in a strange jumpsuit with an even stranger wristband shackled to her left forearm. When Lisa sees this, she obviously makes the connection, but it’s almost too late as the man attacks her with a knife. Upon taking a ride from the driver, though, she ends up turning on the radio to hear about an individual that’s just killed two people and can be identified by the tattoo of a cross on his hand. When a car does come, she gets up, so it’s fair to think that she’s not q quite ready to die. The movie opens with a woman, Lisa, lying on the road, supposedly waiting to be run over, or perhaps just lying about since she has no motivation to keep going. Meander is available on digital platforms on 4 October.On a scale of weird to ‘what the hell am I watching,’ Meander is one of those movies that takes a while to get into but is still interesting enough for those that happen to enjoy escape room movies and thrillers that don’t make a lot of sense. Perhaps he’ll be able to find more possibilities in the fresh air outside the crawlspace of genre. Director Mathieu Turi films this very well, as well as the haunting opening on the road. More intriguing is the suggestion that an extraterrestrial hand, with hard-to-fathom motives, is at the controls – as suggested in a spellbinding celestial flashback. It’s a shame that the inner turmoil being forced to the surface in this pressure cooker is a tacked-on subplot about her dead daughter that feels more of a hassle than the singed troglodyte pursuing her. The rat in this case, Weiss, is a lithe former ballet dancer who relishes the role’s physicality but she also – reminiscent of Noomi Rapace – combines it with a soulful pathos that she exploits well in her many closeups. Of course, several feet farther down, the roof begins to close in.ĭespite a title more suited to a film about long walks in a park with a mate, Meander’s basic rat-in-a-maze premise has an innate tension almost impossible to squander – even when the traps, as here, are a touch on the unimaginative side. Lisa wakes, to her disbelief, inside a small industrial space with perforated walls, and the only route out seems to be through a hatch giving on to the tightest of corridors. Their chat is turning existential when she realises, by the tattoo on his hand, that he is the escaped murderer the radio is talking about – and he attacks. There’s the briefest of preambles as woolly hatted Lisa (Gaia Weiss), lying on a wintry track with suicidal intentions, is picked up by gravel-voiced driver Adam (Peter Franzén). That word made more than the odd appearance in writeups of Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 film Cube – to which Meander, set almost entirely inside a series of shoulder-width vents filled with fiendish traps, bears more than a faint resemblance. V entilation industry professionals, claustrophiliacs and anyone who appreciated the obligatory crawling-through-service-ducts scene in 80s action films such as Aliens and Die Hard will be well chuffed by this confined sci-fi puzzle thriller, presumably released to sanction the return of the word “fiendish” in reviews.
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