The sooner the writers of Hollow find their plot and storyline, would they be so good as to post them online so that viewers can get closure ? Whilst the film starts off very well, following the tried and tested found footage methodology, character development falls short, and we are left with very little empathy towards the main cast. Undoubtedly some movies get away with this, but in a film that only really has 4 actors, any lack of warmth towards the cast, immediately puts you on edge, struggling to get to grips with their interactions and as a result, the story.
Filming POV like this, it is, granted, difficult at times to pull through protagonist's emotions and demeanours, but to completely overlook this for an entire 90 minutes is borderline criminal. Usually, when main leads get killed off, the viewer will experience some sort of emotion - relief, sadness, guilt or even at times, joy - but towards the end of this film, even though we know they are going to die, their deaths come as a void of nothingness and to coin a phrase, meh.
The viewer has to dig deep to try and work out the sub plots embedded in this, those sub plots are tenuous and flimsy to say the least, and it's more by accident than design, that we get to a relatively acceptable conclusion. If the writers were trying to be clever, then sorry, there's a massive difference between clever and subtle, or more appropriately, stupid and contrived.
The ending, and I'm surmising at this point, was more to do with love rejected, and nonacceptance at the new dynamics of a relationship, leading to suicide, and whilst that subject in itself is not one to be laughed at, the way the writers and director went about putting the message across, is, I'm sorry to say, laughable.
That angle of the story is somewhat clear, however as mentioned previously, the varying sub plots and character interaction detract from what in essence, should have been a very strong, very clear message.
This is not a movie you will enjoy watching, which is a pity, because the premise of it, could have given us a strong film.
3/10
