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Despicable characters meander through poorly structured metaphors (possibly). No one and nothing to like (and no scares) in a dull and cheap film.

I wonder if the actors read the script before signing up to do this movie? The dialogue was terrible and had me cringing with embarrassment listening to them trying to belt out their ridiculous lines.

I'd give this one a miss.

Had no clue what was going on throughout the whole film and the characters were so boring. The only reason I watched until the end was in hopes of finding out what it was all about- but nope didnt happen.

I don't even know why this is classified as horror. It's basically just a long drawn out drama about a loser guy who wants to cheat on his girlfriend with a few "creepy" moments thrown in out of nowhere, that seem to lead nowhere and mean nothing. The end was dumb and just made me say "seriously?????"

As a die hard fan of Lynch's craft to pour filth on the mundane and twist it and a fan of more underground grime like the Flowers trilogy that revolve more around exploration of a twisted, grimy setting than a by the book tale, I adored this movie. It's slow, creeping and festering piece with disorienting images strewn in between that pulled me in tighter while making me delightfully queasy. The acting is strong and so is Anvari's skilled steady hand for framing scenes and visceral imagery. It probably belongs more in the terror and surreal categories than standard horror. My main gripe is probably Armie Hammer's natural charm and the script not really emphasising Will's supposed staleness and hollowness, you often kinda feel yourself rooting for a rather average and flawed guy and his descent feels a bit like the generic sudden descent into madness trope and not like Will's lack of drive and standards being the vessel for the rotten fruit he will harvest.

On a side note, it's also fun to imagine this movie as sort of a side sequel portraying the aftermath of one of the countless "college kids mess with forces they don't understand" movies.

At the end I found myself wondering if I'd blinked and missed a vital plot point because nothing was explained (and not in a "ooh ambiguous and intelligent" way).

Good performances from all involved but as a massive fan of Under The Shadow, I found myself very disappointed.

This movie was all over the place. They never explained anything. None of the relationships between the chartoonlike characters mattered in any way. It dragged on, trying to give you a little background as to what was going on and why, but only scraps. Then nothing. The ending was a pathetic joke. Then it was just over. No answers, no nothing. I'm quite literally angry that this movie wasted my time and I stayed to the end, just to see there really wasn't one. Is as if the writer had an idea, then 1/2 way through, forgot what it was, and just filled in the rest of the movie with nonsense dialog and actions.

Starts off ok, there's a bar fight, the bartender picks up a phone left behind. From then on, what is going on??? Anytime you think it'll start making it sense, it just gets worse. Added to that, it doesn't help that the characters are as dull as watching paint dry. Even the cockroaches had more credibility. Avoid.

So you know how you sit down to a terribly rated movie and think people must be being dramatic and rating it unfairly, you jusitfy watching it bc of who plays in it believing your opinion will be different? ...Well this is not one of those films let my save you the 1hr36mins of your life you will not get back after watching this it has absolutely no clear story line, you never find out the reasoning behind anything and I mean ANYTHING. It's sloppy, it's lazy and they should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to even make it to filming. I'm thinking someone in the film industry lost a bet and was forced to film this. I could have done a better film in my backyard.

I've zero idea what people who're bashing Hammer for his performance are thinking because his performance was the only note worthy thing about this. The writing is abysmally disappointing to say the least. It feels like they tried to do a lot of things, but couldn't pull of even one of them. Besides the creepy bugs and Hammer's character's descent into madness it was an unremarkable, uninteresting, forgettable movie that one could do without watching. Skip this one if you have other movies in your watchlist.

The worst movie... cockroaches and a horrible ending!!!

It has intersting start but how it goes further it falls more and more

This movie had potential--you can feel it in a typical but not unpleasant way. The issue is that no thread is tied up in this film. Armie Hammer plays it well enough, but the effort is wasted on a story that doesn't know what it wants to be in the end. Is it Lovecraftian? Is it body horror? Is it straight up demonic? Sadly, the answer is that it doesn't manage to properly employ any of these horror sub-genres in any meaningful way. Unlikable characters are alright in the right setting, but here, nothing builds up or leads out from it. They aren't so much on a journey as they are being carried, and the worst part of the film is that there is no finish line. You're left with the equivilant of half-sipped, flat soda. Sure, you could have it, but you'd much prefer something full and fresh. I suggest you pass on this one.

I'm sorry but the people rating this movie a 1/10 should not be rating movies. First off this movie had atmosphere like crazy. The production alone should put this movie at a 5/10 and another few points for the acting, which is top notch. Where it missed was not having an acceptable ending which i find is happening more and more. Especially when it's hard to bring the story together they just stop the movie. I don't want to choose my own ending and try and figure out what happened. They had the piece ther for it to be great and they hinted at there being a reason for this by the small snippets of computer scenes. Why not dive deeper into that as a means of following through the story to the end.

My expectations for this film was very high because of the cast and that Babak Anvari's last film, "Under The Shadow" was exceptional to say the very least.

Wounds starts like a mysterious and disturbing horror film something to do with a Will (Armie Hammer) a bartender discovering a smartphone and cockroaches. He lives a normal life with his girlfriend Carrie (Dakota Johnson) and things starts to change after he witnesses a huge fight in his bar. It's first 30 minutes is very promising but once we start going to the second act it starts to fall apart and the film relies more on "holy s**t" movements rather than a convincing plot.

The film ends ambiguously and doesn't really give us an idea about Babak wanted to explore. Aside from Armie's brilliant performance there isn't a lot to take from Wounds. A run of the mill decent yet wasted potential horror film.

There are a lot of people involved in the production of a movie: producers, writers, actors, directors, etc and it still amazes me how some scripts with no sense or coherence end up being a movie.

This is the case of "Wounds". This movie is full of plot holes, a ridiculous ending and dumb and illogical decisions made by the main characters that after ten minutes into the movie I did not longer care what happened to them.

A waste of time.

This film tells the story of a bartender who encounter strange happenings after finding a phone.

Even with all the violence and gore, the film is boring. It delivers no thrill or suspense. From the extended bar fight scenes in the beginning, it can be seen the film is pretty bad already. I don't know how this film can get quite a few big names to star in it.