Awake not Woke!

This is a British creature horror movie mostly taking place in an underground cave system. The acting ranges from ok to a bit poor, but nothing awful. It's the usual stupid characters doing stupid unrealistic things. The underground scenes in the cave has very distracting lighting. It should be pitch black except for the flashlights and sometimes it is but others there is so much ambient light the flashlight beams are almost invisible. It's a minor complaint but it does get distracting. There's some decent creature FX but I kept thinking something was a bit off. It almost looks like 2 different people directed, 1 for the actors and 1 that did all the fx and creature shots. There were no wide shots anywhere and most of the creature shots are separate and not in the same scene as any of the actors. It feels like disconnected somehow and doesn't feel like they are in the same room or even the same environment. It's hard to visualize the scenes and what's taking place as a whole because there's everything's too close up with no wide establishing shots anywhere. I originally thought this was just some lackluster directing or lack of budget to blend the CG together. However after watching the movie and doing a little searching I found out this movie heavily utilized A.I. to generate all the creature fx. It all makes sense why everything looked off. This explains a lot. Nothing woke that I saw. It's somewhat watchable if you really like creature horror but be prepared for a heavy dose of A.I. slop.

Claims it's inspired by a true story at the start. Turns out the directors friend flew a helicopter that was shot at went into a spiral and recovered without crashing and the director decided to fabricate a movie that's complete fiction and based on nothing, so total b.s. The acting is pretty poor and there isn't really any story to speak of. For some reason they decided to blare awful rap music over a bunch of scenes that's so loud you can't hear anything else plus it doesn't even match the scenes. There's some decent action scenes and the movie looks good enough and is well filmed. It appears to have a decent budget so it's a shame this didn't turn out better than it did. The characters are too annoying especially the dumb as dirt contractor that's along for the ride. The only real woke would be some DEI casting especially in the completely miscast tiny Asian female baddass soldier who is borderline girlboss even though she's not the highest ranking one there. Might be worth a one time watch if you really like military style movies.

Minimal woke. B-movie feel. Worth watching

Girl kicks ass. Yeah, that's there, but it's not outlandish. Homos, yes. They are portrayed as mentally deranged, homicidal psychopaths. That part is more anti-woke. There's no way this would be released as a mainstream movie. Story, pretty good. A little over-the-top and forced. The ending was drawn out too much. Acting, mostly excellent. Better direction would've helped. I think you can still watch this on Daily Wire.

College the daughter attends is packed full of DEI though considering this a liberal arts college it's probably more accurate than DEI. However the new love interest for the white daughter is naturally a black male. Father's ex military friend is a black male. The writing gets a lot worse in the sequel. Nothing is explained about who this group is or how they can pull off the things they do. The father knows what they are doing but doesn't report them and just leaves the rest of the victims to suffer? How is the FBI not all over the place looking for them? They appear to have unlimited funds and resources but how, and from where? They have an island with full living facilities, boats and cars. They are able to track and locate this family and where the daughter is attending college. They are able to seemingly hack into a ride share company to track and steal the daughters pick up call. This ex military father goes to retrieve his daughter with no backup, no tactical gear or supplies and only a single handgun. Seriously. They main plot point from the first one is never explained. They are kidnapping girls because their women are sterile due to water supply contamination. They are on an island in the middle of nowhere. How is it contaminated and from where? The island we are shown to be inescapable in the first movie is revealed to be well within swimming distance to land. For some reason these survivalist's don't seem to like guns, if they did they could of killed the father 20 times over as he refuses to pick up any of the knives, crossbows or any other weapons, instead resorting to ridiculous cartoonish traps that he seems to have had plenty of time to set up by the dozen. There is no reason for this garbage to exist. Watch the first one if your bored maybe but pretend this garbage never happened. Spoiler...this completely unnecessary sequel ends with the feminist power move of having the daughter get to kill the white male villain.