The Occupant

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Audience Member An amateurish film with an incredibly weak script, a hodgepodge of popular themes and downright clichés. It's all thrown together haphazardly, and it's completely unclear why. It feels like the film was made just for the sake of making it, so the script was hastily cobbled together from hyped-up themes and clichés: a dying sister who needs to be saved, a uranium mine in Georgia, some magical/alien rock lying in chunks underfoot, political problems in North Ossetia. It's all in one film. And those are just the ideas. Some scenes are even worse. The film isn't bad visually (especially the natural scenery), it has its own atmosphere, and even the acting is adequate, but the script is terribly weak and delusional. So much of it screams that this is Keijzer's first film, and he doesn't yet know how to make a good arthouse. Whether he'll ever learn, only time will tell. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 11/06/25 Full Review Veronica B This movie could have been an email... it was so boring and just kept going. 1 star for Ella's acting and the beautiful scenery. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/24/25 Full Review John G Never waste time on a movie with this wide a gap between the critics and the audience. The critics loved it, but the audience hated it, 68 rating point difference. The audience was right. One of the bleakest movies ever. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/05/25 Full Review Troy R Someone called it a less good, smaller budget Annihilation and I think that's a pretty spot on review. Lot less scifi than I would have liked and kind of a whatever ending. Acting was ok but nothing amazing. The scifi was pretty lame and could have easily been a mental breakdown rather than this lazy scifi hook. Character choices were probably the most annoying part, very silly reasoning and a lot of pointless things happened to eventually lead to the ending. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/30/25 Full Review Aldis H Well acted and shot, but it makes no sense, at least in a way where you know what's actually happening and whether or not any of this means anything and isn't just a fever dream, but nothing is explained. I felt precisely nothing for the characters at the end because I wasn't sure anything was real. I don't think the message could have been more muddled. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/17/25 Full Review Jessie P So slow and a total waste of time. I understand the "purpose" which was a coming to terms with inevitable death and being unable to prevent or change the outcome and learning to accept it...which the whole thing could have been a metaphor, I guess, but I dont know if this was some weird waking dream or if there were any actual plot points the explained anything the movie presented. Is this some weird visual image of emotional breakdown? What is the point of the rock, the disembodied voice on the other end of the radio? She could have gone through the survival struggle without a bit of that to realize how futile her struggle to deny her sister's illness was. WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THEM?!?! Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/15/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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