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Bill S I want my money and my two hours back. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/05/24 Full Review Bry G I believe this movie is beautifully gift wrapped for all who understand it. There's lots of potentially excellent things to learn from this. The wife and child who are almost god sent, the wife forgives him and understands what he's going through and tried to support him through both the possibility of schizophrenia, as well as believing him when the first manageable storm happened. She guided him through his fear to open the door out of the shelter. In the end we are left with the cliffhanger of the storm actually taking place while they went to myrtle beach and is at that moment on the required medication- makes you wonder, did it happen for real in this story? Or are we to think he's having the schizophrenic episode. The movie represents how hard it is to reach out about your medical history and find out what is wrong. Same as this community in this day and age we don't have all the resources to get the help we need. He had to travel far, and there was quite an expense for the psychiatrist. The family struggled to keep up with the bills at this point and obviously had to put aside the daughter's cochlear implantation aside due to job/benefit loss. The love the family has is so beautiful you just want nothing more than for the family to be together hope that curtis's episodes don't break them. I love this movie and the lengths that the father went to, to ensure the family was safe, even if it was all delusions.. he didn't do the town folk any harm by building a bigger storm shelter. I have so much to say it's all coming out in a big blurb, sorry. My favourite part was when Dewart attacked Curtis and had the outburst, he began to cry.. and the wife and daughter still latched onto him. If that storm did happen, it could lead into a whole new apocalypse movie. If it didn't, I'd pray the sequel would be a docu style about how they made curtis's schizophrenia more manageable, to better inspire the world how to reach out when they were dealing with similar symptoms of schizophrenia and to raise awareness.. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/29/24 Full Review Lei B This movie is painfully slow. Do not think of it as a disaster movie. Go in thinking that this is a Day in the life type movie. For the most part all the characters in their situations seem real. The writing is not fancy. It reads true to the way people talk. Which a lot of times is boring. Unfortunately, the film is kind of boring as well. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 07/23/24 Full Review John & Tammy H I really wanted to give this movie 5 stars based on Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain's performances alone. The movie was amazing, up until the final scene. I wont spoil it for anyone, but the ending was so dis-satisfying it actually interfered with my sleep after watching it. Ironic considering sleep (or lack of) is a main plot point of the movie. Shannon gave a powerful performance as a man struggling to figure out if his nightmares are prophetic warnings of impending doom, or symptoms of an inherited psychosis. He deserved awards for his performance. Chastain was equally good as his devoted, but understandably concerned wife. As I said, given a different ending (for me) this would have been a 5 star movie. I will probably watch it again. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/18/24 Full Review Bijoya G As paranoid schizophrenic I think this movie was SO OUT OF LINE. I thought it was gonna end and then it will get better but it DEFINITELY DIDNT!!!!!!!!!!!! Idk who would watch this movie and think that it’s a good movie the deaf girl was so out of character that I couldn’t BARE to watch the rest of the movie. I wanted it to get more brutal and crazy, FRIST OF ALL. If you live in the mid west it a tradition to have AT LEAST 6 shelter rooms underground. Second…. You have to have MORE than just 4 bean cans in your shelter! You need at least 30!!!!! THIRD OF ALL. HE DIDNT PORTRAY A PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC!!! Don’t watch this you want PROFESSIONAL TORNADO SHELTER REQUIREMENTS!!!!!! also ps the name of the movie didn’t even match, it’s about a mental ill man NOT TORNADOS!!!! I should know because I’m a storm chaser…. I’ve died 5 times!!!! GOD SAVE AMERICA. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/01/24 Full Review Bob L This is usually the type of movie we see used as a character study for a very specific location, person, or condition--often dropping pearls along the way which help us fill in the blanks as to why it should deserve special consideration or to educate us about a central character's extenuating circumstances. Take Shelter makes use of this style without honoring its contract, moving at a glacial pace without reward of the details that make this a useful technique for building suspense. Instead, suspense is built through Curtis's growing paranoia that he's inherited his mother's schizophrenia as it begins to blur the lines of reality beyond his tolerance. Wife Samantha's character makes the decision to stick with him, but the movie takes too long to get to her transformation from milquetoast to matriarch. Squandered, too, is the deaf daughter plot contrivance (imagine the deaf daughter having hallucinations she does not yet have the capacity to communicate). It just seems like this movie has so much more it could be saying, but either doesn't realize it or just patently refuses to. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/14/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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