The Tribe

Its been a while since I wrote a review but then you come across something this special and you feel that you just have to warn the others. The benchmark for Dystopian movies is quite low so it takes a special kind of director to make a movie that is unwatchable even by Dystopian movie standards. I used to think that Kung Fu Yoga is the worst movie ever made but I was way off the mark. It is hands down this one. I honestly want to understand the thinking that went into making this movie. If we make it they will watch? No...If you make it the collective IQ of everyone who was unfortunate enough to watch it will go down considerably. The will to live of the people who watch it will decrease considerably. This is the movie that they air at Dignitas before the assisted suicide lest someone changes their mind. Even though the budget of the movie is only about 10-20K we have to find this guy who financed it and destroy him/her lest they feels the urge to finance any more of these 'kill me...kill me now' kind of movies. There is this girl who plays the role of the youngest daughter in the movie. In my over 3 decades of watching movies I dont think I have come across a child actor worse than her. And she managed to be the worst child actor ever in the history of cinema without actually saying a single word. That is some talent the kid has. I hope she pursues acting as a long term career. This movie should be nationally aired in countries that have a problem with population control. People will stop having kids automatically. This movie would be the best contraceptive ever. This movie has to be destroyed. Plain and simple it just has to be destroyed. This is the kind of movie that can destroy civilizations. The director and everyone else associated with the movie should be legally banned from indulging in any activity associated with movie making. There is something seriously wrong with the individual who made this movie and everyone else associated with it. I dont think you can be normal and make this.

The Tribe

Taste in movies often comes down to atmosphere and this one pulls it off with feelings of isolation and enough effective dialog to keep things moving. It thoroughly holds your attention and the ending is hard to predict; another mark of a good film. My main nitpick would be that someone didn't fully clean the lens in a few panoramic scenes. While this story and its characters could have been fleshed out more, that's true of many films in their restricted times. I don't understand the low ratings and suggest watching it for yourself.

It's like they were trying to make it bad. It's stupid but not the funny kind of stupid. Just really bad in every way. Looks like the apocalypse has plenty of lip gloss and hair care products. And also a muzzle loader that works like a repeating riffle for some reason. Just dumb. No excuse. Also I can't spoil this because it was already rotten.

The stupidest movie I've ever seen in my life. What a bunch of horsecrap this entire movie was. Omg.... What a waste of film. Woman are so nieve ? Is that the message of this movie ? Just idiotic !

A disease has thinned the population to near extinction. Three sisters are left alone at a remote ranch that their survivalist father built before killing himself. The girls wait hopefully for the rains to return, then one day a young man walks out of the desert. The three sisters are excellently portrayed and are great characters. The clashes between the eldest sisters as they question the instructions left them by their father before he deserted them are electric. When the outsider arrives the girls appear to be low hanging (and ripe) fruit. But looks can be deceiving and various plans collide to create some considerable drama. The female leads are excellent giving very believable performances. Cinematography is great, making the most of the rugged desert landscape. I don't want to spoil anything, but don't expect a whole load of rainbows here. Simple story, well crafted. I choose to ignore the very last scene (on accounts I don't understand it) but I would recommend this.

This movie is a great example of a film that I wish had just been slightly better. A trio of sisters is surviving on an isolated ranch after an apocalyptic plague event has devastated their surroundings. One day a handsome young man, Ryan, arrives and the sisters' equilibrium, already shaky, falls apart. The movie's strength, in my opinion, was the acting. Setting aside the actress who plays the youngest daughter (who had an odd pouting expression for much of the movie that I found distracting), there was good chemistry between the sisters and between the sisters and Ryan. The movie is at its best when it taps into the very real emotional conflict that arises when there is an emergency and the people involved have very different ideas of what is the best course of action. One sister wants to kill Ryan, the other becomes fond of him. One sister thinks they should leave the homestead, the other wants to stay. This conflict felt very organic, and the movie does a good job of keeping the character of Ryan ambiguous so that you don't know which sister is in the right. In the movie's final act, the sisters face a different threat, and this is where the movie loses its footing. The final act tries to bring in themes involving both the plague and the little sister, and both of those things have been too underdeveloped in the first two acts. The little sister has no dialogue, and she is also not given any powerful non-verbal content--so when she is pushed to the center of the action it doesn't click. Characters assert different things about the plague, and yet I as a viewer didn't have enough of an understanding of the plague to know how to take their opinions. The very end of the movie was confusing to me. I'm not sure if it's a case of the writer/director having a solid idea and just not conveying it clearly, or if it's a case of the writer/director not knowing how to end the movie and just going with something kind of ambiguous and vaguely sensical. Whatever the case may be, I felt let down by the conclusion of the film. I watched this movie for free on a streaming service, and I think it's worth checking out. I just really, really wish it had landed the ending.

...invitation to take a nap. I kept hoping for an interesting spin in this poorly written snoozefest of a movie...still waiting. I say it was well acted by the young cast and can see where they made the most of the minimal cardboard dialogue. Directing and cinematography are well done considering that nothing interesting actually happens. Production values are decent for an indy but they should have spent some money on a rewrite of the script or chosen a better one to start with. Minor twists on the Z for Zachariah plot line, but nowhere near as interesting as that young adult book was half a century ago. Don't recommend wasting your time on this one...but again the young cast did well with what they had to work with, so your call.

"The Tribe" is a very well done movie that takes place after a catastrophic plague of some kind. The illness is never fully revealed, giving the film a very realistic "from the survivior's viewpoint" feel to it. The main characters, three sisters, are alone on the ranch their parents set up. I do not want to give away any spoliers. Positives: Very well written. Great human interaction drama. Superb acting, especially by the three female leads. Excellent plot. Surprise twists and a very haunting ending. Negatives: The rifle that is used is an interesting piece, but its functionality in the setting is not as accurate as might be expected. As a sport shooter (I do not use black powder) I just ignored the mechanics and stayed with the story line. I guess for some, the rifle's use might be a stumbling block. Had it been a bolt action hunting rifle the setting and scenes would have been exactly the same. Otherwise, I found no other negatives to this very engaging and thoughtful movie. My grade, a solid A movie

This is a great suspense film about three sisters and their struggles in a post apocalyptic world. This is a drama not a horror film. The story pulls you into their world that contains fear, love, boredom, uncertainty, twists and unexpected situations that leave you completely captivated in their world. You root for these sisters to make it when the future is uncertain. Highly Recommend!