an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

I admit that this film's horror/sci-fi genre is not one that interests me these days and the only reason I watched this movie was because Gregory Fittoussi was in it. (He won an award for this role). Living in UK this did not come to local cinema's so I had to wait till released in streaming media. Genre has more appeal to my husband so we watched together. Juliette is trying to find food for group in post-apocalyptic American, landscape is arid and desserted. Due to the presence of mutant humaniods she has to return to base before dusk. A photo of her with a man is stuck to the visor in her vechicle. The film osocilates between Juliette's present dilemma of returning to base and her pre-apocalyptic, past relationship with Jack, a rich French art gallery owner living in New York. Watching it, I became involved with Juliette's dilemma and with her relationship with Jack, who looked passed the ugliness of Juliette's life to see the beauty within her. Without spoiling it, I just want to say the ending haunted me long after the credits had rolled. My husband also enjoyed this movie terming it 'diffierent' which in his case means 'not formulaic.' This movie deserved a wider release I hope it now finds it.

Julia (Brittany Ashworth) is living in an apocalyptic world, searching for food, gas, and killing cannibalistic humanoids in a desert type environment. The event is recent and we don't get a clue as to the cause until late and how the world became a desert so fast is unexplained. However, this film is not about Julia having to survive after a mishap, but it is a love story that fills her flashbacks with a Frenchman named Jack (Grégory Fitoussi). So if you are more interested in watching a love story than science fiction thriller, this is it. The film was a decent production for what was, mostly a one person play. However, it is not something I enjoy. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity

I can't tell too much, because it would spoil the movie. Hostile got two levels of storytelling, (two different timelines), one is a personal drama between a couple and the other a survival drama in a post-apocalyptic world.Both parts are well played and acted and produced but imo the "mix" does not work out at all. The editing between those switches is very unnerving and tbh I did not like the idea much. Both parts felt somehow alien to each other and did not work together (of course my opinion). Also the end, well, felt forced and somehow plain boring to me.The personal drama story-line I rate 5, the apocalyptic part also, but together I only can give a 3. The story told somehow just didn't add up to nothing, and poetry, symbolism or whatever the director wanted to create, was imo a big failure - the director should have made two movies instead this one or choose one of the story-lines to make a movie. All in all the movie will not deliver much satisfaction to a "serious" audience and the lover of post-apocalyptic movies will also be unsatisfied.Also the girl should learn to shoot or get a bazooka ;)

Probably a masterpiece. a morality "western". in the 1880's, a soldier, with a very violent and clear conscience, is about to be discharged. as his last assignment, he is charged with taking a group of Indians back to montana. along the way he meets violence and his past. you really need to just get into the movie. let it take you on its journey.