Portals

A low budget psychological thriller that is heavy on thrill and very light on psychology. They actually do a lot right though. The long car park scene is a study in how to make a boring location visually interesting using just light. The performances are pretty good, but the story is too unfocused. The visceral emotion of it all is compelling. There's a lot of gut punch suspense moments that work despite the context not making much sense. It's a good movie but in 2020 this is TV movie quality.

Wow. So, this movie had...potential, it didn't quite meet that potential, but it had it. It felt like someone took a bunch of NoSleep stories off of Reddit, mashed them into a movie, and just dusted their hands off and said "yea, that seems fine." Portals, as self contained stories, that only just interconnected, was interesting. The ending was a bit unsatisfying, it felt needlessly gory and overtly ominous. I did enjoy the movie, watching it from start to finish, and would have given it better ratings if it had been just a bit more refined. They focused too much on one of the stories, so much so that it became dull by the time that story reached it's conclusion. The fourth story would have been better with just a bit more, anything added to it, rather than using it as a bookend piece for the movie, or they should have cut it completely. So, overall, it could have been better, it was definitely worth renting though, and not nearly as bad as some of the reviews make it out to be. It's in the realm of the Cube movies, with a touchof Event Horizon (not nearly as good, but few are), and reminiscent of Cloverfield Paradox, but I didn't get bored and turn this one off, like I did with Cloverfield.

Not good. If you proceed to watch this movie, just remember you were warned. It's your own fault.