Dark Island
When it is a low-budget film that there isn’t a single recognisable name on the cast list, just that’s the proof that the budget didn’t allow bringing in a washed-up former tv star or a struggling hasbeen for even one day’s worth of shooting. Even worse is the case when all the names on the production credits are completely new. Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer are only mentioned as having produced shorts footage.
About scriptwriters one has heard of Gieras has directed one out of the three films, shouty B-movies which are The Whispering (1995) and endured the making of two more such tediums, Little Insects (2000) and Dark Asylum (2001), along with Centipede (2004) and had a writing credit in Beeper (2002) and its sequel, and more recently in Day of Reckoning (2016) whilst Simon Boyes had shared the best credit in seeking out the fine Broken (2006) with Mason and most of Mason’s other projects co-created a few years later.
Dark Island was a movie that someone picked up on a whim because they couldn’t locate the film they wanted. The end product certainly has the feel of one of The Asylum’s knock-off films low quality films that are often released to capitalize on the expected financial success of a blockbuster film. In this instance, Dark Island seems to be an Asylum knock off that aims to exploit the success of the Lost series (2004-10).
They are on an island where sexy accidents are happening and on top of that they must fight off a sinister substance a huge cloud made of black smoke that wishes to do them harm and now roams around the brush looking for a suitable moment to strike. There is even some construction for the sake of creative purpose that involves erecting poles that would contain it, although, the dead birds remain but are never explained in any way as to their relevance.
And later we find out, the island has been used for some shady biological researches. Its narrative structure also resembles that of the above mentioned Lost, as the main sequence is divided by flashbacks about each character’s history explaining their presence on the island.
The story is arguably the biggest issue when it comes to the Dark Island. It gives a plausible character to the black smoke: it’s a biological weapon gone wrong that turns anything it touches organic to toxins much better than the explanation Lost pendant for so long: ‘the cloud is the evil twin of an immortal who got stuck in a cave that is supposed to guard the world and this made him somehow change from human to a cloud and back for no good reason’.
But what troubled me most with the black mist is how purposeful smoke seems to be while trying to kill, for a toxic gas that is purely needless. For any reasonable pant wearing yellowbelly that should not be hard for the writers to come up with a good enough explanation for this.
The most bothersome thing, however, is that the thin plot during the party’s attempt to escape out of the black cloud or in the course of the struggle for the antidote, is rather flat, lacking in dramatic interest as such. There is also the fact that the plot has been crafted in a manner that keeps bringing new twists on how the group’s declared intention has changed and that they are actually the traitors among their midst, the infection of the survivor at the conclusion but all of these twists become more ludicrous with the further development of the story which seeks to add salt upon salt.
In closing, one comes to appreciate the fact that these so many twists have reached the level whereby each of the members of the expedition except Jai Koutrae who is a mere boat captain, all actors have been dissimulating their roles and were liars from the start making the whole situation nonsensical.
To be fair considering this was a no budget endeavor, the unknown cast at least attempt to perform at a decent level. They do take them up earnestly, seem to invest a skin in them and certainly don’t look typical. The ring to that would be Marc Rita embarrassed Americans as a subversive general who looked like the idea of a spoiled brat who didn’t know how to dial it down when needed.
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