The Lair

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alex It’s a very slow movie the action parts are meh characters are meh Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/29/22 Full Review Christian C This movie starts with several of the worst action/firearm tropes in all of film… First, ‘action hero with pistol fights off (and probably kills) multiple attackers with automatic rifles’. Just *stop* doing this… Anyone who’s ever fired a pistol knows that they’ve got a hard cap on how effective they are beyond about 50 feet. And the idea of winning a shootout with about six hostiles firing AK-47s at you? Ha! Second, the ‘bad guys want to take the hero prisoner for some reason?… even though they’re in the middle of a shootout and the hero hasn’t even been disarmed?’ thing. In this case, the protagonist then kills the distracted gunman with - ahem - a flare. I just can’t. I’m so over these types of dumb, Western power fantasy stories. Aside from the pathetic notion that local militia members with a lifetime of training are laughably inept, there’s the added lmfao element of the main character being *a pilot.* Someone who’s probably never been in a firefight in their *life.* Seriously, the alien hybrid things are more believable than the ridiculously dumb action sequences here. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 04/08/25 Full Review The R If you want to jump into this to just try and get something out of a horror flick - you need to totally turn off your brain - and probably being just a little bit drunk would not hurt either. The dialog is really bad. I get the feeling that there was no American military advisor on this one at all. Everything from the uniforms to the jargon is just off. The accents are just bad - to the point of being distracting. My guess is they were all Brits or Australians and they really should have just gone with that. The "story" would not have suffered one bit by changing the nationality of the soldiers involved. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 07/15/24 Full Review Alec B Neil Marshall's directing skills almost overcome the bad performances and clunky dialogue . . . Almost. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/24 Full Review Michael Antony A Mikey's Film Review: The Lair (2022) Director and fellow Geordie, Neil Marshall returns to his pulpy horror roots with a mash up of his greatest hits, namely ‘Dog Soldiers' (2002) and ‘The Descent' (2006). Sadly, The Lair doesn't come anywhere close to the quirky, inventive, bloody B-movie delights of those 2 films. Charlotte Kirk (Marshall's real life wife) plays Kate Sinclair, an Royal Air Force pilot shot down in Afghanistan by insurgents. After stumbling into an abandoned Russian military bunker she accidently unleases a hoard of alien/human hybrids with only one thing on their mind - blood! What starts off as a clichéd but fun premise soon descends into an overlong slog of misfit soldiers churning out clunky dialogue with some ropey acting - especially Miss Kirk! It's sadly not even bad in a fun way, it's just so ‘average'. It moves at a brisk enough pace and there are a couple of well choreographed action set pieces scattered throughout, but this is another disappointing effort (after Hellboy, Doomsday and The Reckoning) from a director who showed such early promise... Mikey's Film Rating: 2/5* Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/27/23 Full Review Tony F How could a talented film maker like Neil Marshall (Dog soldiers) produce such a disappointing, uninspired movie? Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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