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User Reviews for: Bones and All

cutecruel
CONTAINS SPOILERS/10  one year ago
_Bones and All_ is nothing more than edgy, dull teenage cannibals taking a boring cross country road trip through poor, rural America, in a world where there apparently is a secret cult of hyper-cannibals (even a toddler at a restaurant) that can smell each other from miles away, and even though they claim there aren't _"that many of them"._

Aimless is how I would describe _Bones and All_ . I'm fine with the lack of a clear plot, but to not even really explore the characters or their motivations felt disappointing to me. I would've loved some more backstory on why they are the way that they are.

This movie throws off the weirdest vibes. It feels like a teen drama in some parts, and a hardcore cannibal film in others. It's like someone came up with a SNL parody of a YA road trip romance movie (_"What if, instead of vampires or werewolves, they were cannibals?! Innovation. "_) and instead of playing it for laughs, they played it completely straight. It just felt like a romance story that was originally about two people struggling with addiction on a road trip, and then the cannibalism was added before filming because writers saw that the romance part is just boring and had to add something to make their movie watchable. Sorry, but the romance was horrible - cheesy and corny as f**k. The dynamic between Lee and Maren didn't work for me, their relationship going from _"I'm an outsider, I'm feeling alien, I know how you feel"_ to _"I'm in love with you"_ in like...5 minutes. And every single dialogue between them is done in whispers, this felt very wannabe arthouse.

To me, the most interesting thing about the film was the way it wrestled with the ethics of dealing with cannibalistic compulsion. Also, I liked the searching for Maren's mom part to understand who she is. But Chloe Sevigny was completely wasted here, her scene came off as ridiculous. After that the movie turned into a YA snoozefest, and I lost interest. The third act is super drawn out. I thought at the beginning once Maren ate that girls finger that it was gonna be this wild rock and roll film, boy was I wrong because this movie is so slow.

As soon as I saw the premise, I knew it would end with either the girl eating the guy or vice versa. Predictable ending. I really didn't care for the final scene much at all, the overly melodramatic ending with her eating him was just so expected, and it tonally felt so off from the rest of the movie for me. That whole last sequence made my eyes roll. :rolling_eyes: I felt this could have ended with _"let’s be people for awhile"_.

I'm not saying it's a bad movie. It's genuinely very well made, the technical aspects and the filmmaking is done really well, acting is okay. From a horror angle, it was effective and made me very uncomfortable. But ultimately the film is centered around a romance story that is just average, nothing more. I don't know how the script managed to make this interesting concept utterly boring.
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