The Titan (2018) Reviews

• Here's how it ends- all 5 times.

  blahsblahjunk2018-04-03

  SPOILER: I'm going to start off by saying that I typically love bad horror movies. I can suspend disbelief like a champion. But this goes beyond hand-waving and into the realm of lunacy. The first 3/4 of the movie were exactly like you'd expect. Set up the experiment, establish the characters, ignore the harbinger, and get down to business. Things look promising and then, of course, things start to go terribly wrong. Unlike most horror movies, though, the characters don't get killed off one at a time. The vast majority of them go down in one fell swoop. And then... then things start getting weird. Our hero seems to be the only Titan that *doesn't* die or go mad, and instead does... nothing. He loses the ability to speak and apparently also, the ability to mouth words, gesticulate, write, or do anything except stare meaningfully at his wife. His house is attacked by soldiers who rival Stormtroopers for mass ineptitude, and he just... runs away. ENDING ONE His wife finds him, and they stare into each other's eyes and kiss. A military helicopter flies toward them, fade to white. ENDING TWO The wife wakes up in a hospital bed back on the base. She has lacerations on her face. The head scientist apologizes that she was "roughed up" and explains that she needs to convince her husband to go to Titan. He brings her to where the titan is locked in a glass box. The head scientist tells her that the titan is refusing to leave because he has too many attachments to earth. He tells her that she needs to give him an injection, which she protests as being a "lobotomy." He will forget everything. The chemical lobotomy is in a special glass vial nestled in a special foam box right next to an identical glass vial labeled SALINE. Obviously, she switches the vials. There are an additional ten minutes of unbroken eye contact, and then the wife rushes to leave. Inexplicably, she takes the head doctor with her. The doctor who is the one who did all these experiments and also *lied to her face* about what was happening- now in this very moment becomes one of the good guys. Just for good measure, the doctor realizes what happened and shouts "you switched the vials!" clarifying the transparent ruse for audience members who may have dozed off during the scene. Behind them, the Titan pauses for dramatic effect and then attacks at the last moment. ENDING THREE The wife and the head doctor pick up the son (played by a mannequin for the rest of the movie) and run full tilt for the exit. They're met there by the injured titan who has escaped and gotten in front of them despite being pursued by about fifty soldiers. The head scientist shows up with more soldiers and orders them to shoot our four fleeing heroes. They refuse, and instead turn their guns on the head scientist. Grateful, the wife runs back to the titan and they hug some more. There is no resolution to this scene. Not kidding. There is none. No explanation for why the head scientist suddenly decided he needed to kill the one successful participant in his experiment. No resolution for the head doctor. No explanation of this base's command structure or what consequences there were for the soldiers who refused to follow orders- if any. Nobody explains what they planned to do with a lobotomized titan in space. No follow up on anything whatsoever. ENDING FOUR Opens on an airplane. The titan is in an iron lung and the head doctor is there. Some guy I don't recognize tells the wife that her family is a miracle and that the titan changes everything and 'gives us hope.' Why? No idea. It fades out over a nightime cityscape. ENDING FIVE The wife is in some kind of lab, analyzing soil samples. She goes outside and looks up into the nighttime sky. The camera zooms in on the sky and then pans to the side a little bit to reveal a huge yellow orb. It's rocky, so... probably not Saturn? It cuts back and forth between the wife staring into the night sky and the now-junkless titan standing on what is, presumably, Titan the moon. Also he has wing membranes now so there's that. The music would indicate that this is a dramatic and happy ending. I am... completely baffled. I'm not sure where she was standing, if it was supposed to be out in space somewhere, or if it was back on Earth. I have no idea what he is eating all alone on this moon of his. As far as I can tell, the human race is still more or less doomed. I have no many questions.

• Good acting... bad story

  cjnicolas-974382018-04-03

  Training people to live on an uninhabitable planet because the earth is becoming... UNINHABITABLE. Say that again slowly. Why does he have to go to Titan? Why can't they just train his body to survive the new harsh weather on earth? I don't have a problem with the acting and special effects, I just feel like the story was not well thought out.

• On my deathbed I'll look back at my life and would regret spending 1 hour and thirty minutes of my healthy youth days on this piece of junk.

  ahmad_hgh2018-03-31

  I was quite excited to watch this. Sci-Fi fantasy is my favorite genre. But this was absolutely horrible! Events happened for no reason; characters got happy or angry without explanation! A complete logical disaster. I have watched some movies form the bottom 100 list of IMDB and I really think they were better. If you have no value for your own life and happiness then watch this .. that's all I have to say.

• I guess humanity is doomed? Why all the poor choices in the 3rd act?

  carlos-a-hiciano2018-04-06

  I actually enjoyed watching the movie up until the third act. The set up was intriguing. It was engaging and interesting up until the near end. The third act is when I lost my suspense of disbelief. There's a moment at the end of the second act where Rick Janssen, The protagonist and successful experiment has a major medical emergency. He goes into surgery. We also see all of the other subjects including Tally Rutherford, go into surgery as well. It seems without this surgery, they would all die. During this surgery montage we see that the majority of the participants have died except our protagonist Rick and Tally. Rick's wife, Abi now gets to see her husband. We can now see Rick and Tally completely altered humans. They have evolved past their human state. This is a really interesting moment...then....for whatever reason...the lead scientist, Martin says "They can go home..." What?....Your experiment is successful and you don't want to monitor or study your experiment anymore?...you know that beings with this DNA can be violent and yet you want to release it back to the public? You're not worried that your subjects could be harmed or potentially die in an unsupervised environment? This is a stupid, stupid decision by the head scientist of this experiment. This movie upsets me because it had SO much potential to be great. This movie started out with the premise of the survival of the human species. It seemed as if Professor Martin's goal was for human kind to survive outside of earth. He's the good guy...but the third act suddenly made Martin the antagonist...this was completely unwarranted. The third act became less about humanity as a whole and focused on the individual experiences of what Rick and his wife Abi wanted. It's turning point of "They can go home.." that really bothers me. Mainly because if this hadn't had happened, they probably wouldn't have been violent and killed people. The Titans should have been quarantined and supervised until both Titan Rick and Titan Tally could be shipped off to Saturn's moon. Sending Titan Rick and Titan Tally home just caused unneeded action scenes....If the producers really wanted an action scene, they could have had it while the titans were supervised at the base. I was under the impression that Rick and Tally would be shipped off to Titan to further the species of human kind. It would have been best if it went that direction. This would create turmoil for Titan Rick to leave earth and leave his wife for the sake of all man kind. That would have made a better story in my opinion. The second thing that made me throw my hands up in frustration was the part in the third act when the lead scientist asked Abi to give Rick this serum that would erase his memories... Why would they ask Abi to do this ? Rick is already quarantined in a cage..can't your army guys use a tranquilizer gun? Or can't you restrained Rick even more so he doesn't attack? I don't understand why this high end top secret experimental facility would rely on the subjects wife to give him a solution. I think these people have the resources to make that happen without his wife... She then switches the drug and runs away. There's a chase scene and now the lead scientist and army have cornered Rick, Abi, their kid and for some reason Martin's partner Dr. Freya. Martin then orders his lackeys to shoot them and they decide against it? Why? Because they don't want to kill a women and child. That's fair. But at the same time, Isn't all of humanity at stake here? Abi is now selfishly "saving" her husband for what? I thought Abi knew that Rick would evolve and be shipped off to titan. Why is there resistance from her? We're told that in 10 years or so most of humanity will starve and most of earth will be uninhabitable...this would make it seem that this is their only shot to save their species. It would seem that Prof. Martin is then making a huge sacrifice for all of humanity...why make him the antagonist in the end here? This story went off the rails in the third act. I could have instead liked to have seen a story about the individual sacrifice for humanity instead. Tally Shouldn't have died. What should have happened after the surgery scene was Rick resisting because he's told he has to repopulate titan with tally. Rick being angry about this decision made on his behalf. Rick resisting and becoming violent (this way the producers can have their action scene). Scientists and soldiers sedate him and force him and Tally to go off to titan. Abi's turmoil and emotional sacrifice to let this happen. Then finally, you can have both happy endings where we see Rick and Tally on Titan adjusting to the environment, and also scientist back on earth implementing the titan projects to civilians etc. I don't write these movies so they don't come out how I'd wish they would... All in all, the ending just seems horrible. We see Dr. Abi ambiguously working on something. We're led to believe it's a continuation of the Titan project.... Then...we see Rick...alone on Titan....I guess he needs to be there to survive...but what is he going to do there all alone? Anyway, I don't usually write reviews, but this third act messed with my suspense of disbelief so much that I had to write it out. I don't think I'd recommend this movie. and for the filmmakers, If you can't do the 3rd act right, don't do any of it at all.

• Sadly...

  yoyort2018-03-30

  SPOILER: 90% preparation 10% action Still can't understand what a single "Titan" could do alone on the planet. Hope there is no sequel to see more going trough the process. As long as everyone gets different results, how could this plan be a viable salvation option...