I would have liked something more about the antagonists though. You can empathize with her, but you barely get to know much about her other than she is brave and clever. Weiss does a fine job as the reluctant action hero, but the character is barely two-dimensional. It is entertaining, and it has just enough intellectual aha moments to reward the viewers.
#MEANDER MOVIE REVIEW MOVIE#
The movie is always surging forward and only takes a break when Lisa is pushed past the point of exhaustion. I suspect, like The Cube, that they were able to re-use a lot of the sets and repurpose them. Meander is an interesting film, and it looks great, with the maze lighting up with colorful lights, and the traps are pretty intense. Lisa does get a chance to consult her fate with the one being who would have any real interest, her deceased daughter Nina, who gets conjured up as the big maguffin in the third act which gives some weight and resolution to the proceedings. But the antagonists never reveal themselves, nor provide much of a motive. The maze might be considered a metaphor for the trials of life that Lisa had to overcome, and that by finally dealing with her core pain of the loss of a child, can she be free.
This is a survival horror film, and the trail of the bodies of those who failed before her is a reminder of the consequences. Lisa meanders through the maze and is confronted with an obstacle that she works through, and then is subsequently confronted with another deadlier obstacle.
This is a movie that is all about tension and drama and functions almost completely as a single straight-line story with a very flat arc. She finds new resolve for her life and rather than rolling over for the maze to do her in, she soldiers through and shows toughness and resiliency that indicates that she really does have a zest for life. The iris door opens, and a gauntlet of deadly traps awaits her as she crawls out into the twisty duct-like maze, as the glowing band on her arm starts issuing ominous count-down timers.
#MEANDER MOVIE REVIEW DRIVER#
Did the truck driver do this to her? Is she being watched? Can anyone hear her pleas for help? Leading out is a closed iris door, and curiously, she has been clothed in a lycra athletic jumpsuit and is now carrying a glowing ring gauntlet that has been secured to her right arm. When Lisa comes to, she is stuck in a sheet metal box with glowing lights dappling the space. Once she recognizes what kind of trouble she’s in, he jams on the breaks and it’s lights out.
#MEANDER MOVIE REVIEW SERIAL#
While making small talk with the truck driver, the news flash comes out that there is a serial killer on the loose, and wouldn’t you know it, she just got a ride from that guy. In the opening moments of the film, Lisa suicidally lays herself down on a rural road, but when a car finally approaches she abandons that grim plan and instead accepts a ride from the driver of the truck that nearly struck her.
Lisa ( Gaia Weiss, Vikings) is a distraught woman, grieving the loss of her nine-year-old daughter Nina. Hamsters have it so much easier.Īnd despite the threadbare plot of Cube, by comparison, Meander manages to one-up the simplicity of the plot by having a nearly dialogue-free film. Essentially you have a human Habitrail but loaded with things that want to slice, impale, burn, or drown you. People awaken in a tightly confined space with no recollection of how they ended up in their predicament, only knowing that they need to get out before their newfound environment kills them.
It’s a tight squeeze for Gaia Weiss in Meander (2020)Ĭlautrophobes beware! The little French film Meander (2020) takes a lot of cues from the cult favorite film Cube (1997). That is pretty much the entirety of what you need to know, but if you take a simple idea and execute it well. A woman grieving the loss of her daughter is abducted and stuffed into a ductwork maze sprinkled with an escalating parade of devilish traps. Gaia Weiss is trapped in a maze in Meander (2020) ★★★ out of ★★★★★Ĭan a film without a plot to speak of still be compelling? In the case of Meander, a claustrophobic tricks and traps film, the answer is a qualified yes.
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