Monolith (2016) Reviews

• Rejected from Tensionfest in a very major way

  paulroundell2017-03-10

  A Land Rover Discovery Sport that's been covered in cardboard and painted black locks itself with a young child inside. The mother tries to get the child out and succeeds. And because I need five lines of text, I'm also writing this. And this.

• Boring, just so boring overall!

  Alex23132017-03-02

  OK, it's not the worst movie I've ever seen but it's up there. First off, I think people should know that this movie has three different titles at the time of writing this review - it is known as Monolith, Trapped Child and (in the UK as) Locked In. So the lady is given the ultimate safest car of the future as it is packed full of technology. The car can drive by itself via a computer while protecting anyone inside kinda like a mobile bank vault if you will. Long story short, the lady takes to trip LA with her kid but gets herself lost along the way in the middle of nowhere, she hits something and stops to check, gives the kid her mobile/cellphone to play around while she checks on what she has hit. With mother outside, the child access the controls of the car via the app and locks himself in, and that is pretty much the whole movie. The kid is Locked In. And for more then 40 odd minutes, we watch as the lady tries to break into the unbreakable car - hence why it's got boring fast. The idea of this movie has kinda been done before, think Panic Room but the bad guys as the mother and the panic room is on wheels. This whole movie could have been avoided if she had just given the kid a tablet to play with in the first place. Oh and listen out for the "Terminator" style music score throughout.

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• Questions

  NYMovieWatcher2017-03-25

  The other reviews cover a lot of what I'd like to say. The movie is far too full of commercials. It's boring. It's tense but not for the right reasons. It's hard to like any of the characters. Questions: Who slaps on a pair of leather pants when it's 108 degrees? Who puts their child in a fluffy bear suit on the same blazing hot day?

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• don't bother watching

  arniemall2017-04-06

  This has got to be one of the worst movies Lifetime has shown. Cringe-worthy. Unrealistic even for a Lifetime movie. The decisions this woman made from the beginning of the movie to the end would be comparable to those of a five year old. Just awful, awful, awful. I had to finally fast forward to see how it ended.

• Unbelievably bad.

  werealwaysopen2017-03-26

  Lifetime basically says, "Hm, what are middle aged women most afraid of?" and then makes movies about it. Absolutely useless person gets her infant son trapped in a magical future science car with magical future science protective features - like glass that won't even scratch or get dirty when hit repeatedly with rocks and comically oversized wrenches. It's supposed to be a commentary on giving away our power to machines that think for us. Except in this case, the car was smarter than the protagonist. In response to this, she then fails every basic common sense survival situation decision-making process...seriously, by about halfway through you'll be voting for the desert to kill her, because she should not pass her limited intelligence on to her offspring. Her basic strategy is "cry a lot and smoke weed". Ignoring the plothole goofs...like moving the deer away from the front of the car causes the car to suddenly start rolling *backwards*...and the terrible dream sequences full of terrible Lifetime acting...her final solution is to push the car off a cliff, believing it will unlock and her son won't be killed by falling hundreds of feet in a metal box. And why the heck would a car unlock its doors because it senses it's falling through the air? Just an unpolished turd from start to finish.

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