No One Will Save You

A silly B-movie clone of War of the Worlds and The Matrix with a sizable budget. The initial contacts with the alien are fine, but the protagonist’s inappropriate expressive reactions and the conspicuous nonsense gradually start to pile up. And as a result, instead of the screenplay pulling the film out of its pervasive mediocrity with some sort of idea, No One Will Save You comes to a ridiculous point that seems to have been formulated by someone who has seen two films in their life (those mentioned above). Not even the aliens are original here. (10/02/2023)

Pretty meh in the end. A rather skillful genre exercise with the most bland looking alien you can imagine. The interchangeable trauma subplot shouldn't have been there at all, or should have been in a more ambitious film. It just stalls the flow and then downright kills the finale. I also rated last year's Nope by Jordan Peele with only three stars, but the creativity of the execution of those traditional UFO/ALIEN themes was completely different there. 5/10 (almost at **) (09/22/2023)

A likeable alien abduction Invasion. A month ago, the trailer for No One Will Save You pleasantly shocked me and promised a new Sci-Fi horror flick, which it didn’t deliver, but it's definitely a decent genre addition and since we get very few of these alien genre flicks, the film certainly doesn't offend. The film hinges on the likeable Kaitlyn Dever fighting alone against an alien invasion, which thankfully picks up very quickly and has a lot to offer. The craftsmanship is up to par, the music and cinematography are decent, the atmosphere is slightly uncomfortable in a few scenes, the look of the aliens is traditional, but that's exactly the look I like (too bad she didn't kill off more of them). I didn't mind that there is hardly any talking, at least everything moves forward quickly and there is no room for boredom. The finale is a bit meh and deprived the film of a 4th star, as it had a solid path to it. I liked Nope a bit more, but this definitely doesn't put the Sci-Fi genre to shame. 6/10. (10/01/2023)

You don’t have to wait long for the signal, and in a quiet place, heavenly creatures spring into action. A social outcast, a belching death metal vocalist, an aggressive gremlin-like creature, a giant spider yogi, or a telepath with parasites. Then, what starts as a home invasion trilogy turns into a fourth installment where you have to guess if it’s all about millennials under pressure, an inquisitive alien race studying unusual behavior in other species, or something completely different. And I couldn’t care less. The visuals aren’t bad, but if it had a poster in some back alley behind a bar, Fox Mulder would probably aim a stream of urine at it. (10/13/2023)

This film is a lot smarter than it looks. Everything that puzzles you makes sense in the end, the absence of dialogue is not some kind of artistic mannerism, and the “normal” appearance of the aliens is certainly not unimaginative. No One Will Save You is a very similar experience to Nope, but doesn't copy it. Brian Duffield, like Jordan Peele, has his own ideas and his own vision, so original that he can afford to quote Close Encounters of the Third Kind and, at one point, even The Shining, without it having an undesirable comparative effect. I was rooting for Kaitlyn Dever from start to finish - she can say so much without words. (09/24/2023)

No One Will Save You is a bit of a different UFO flick that is very much its own alternative (the whole film is almost without a single word... ), but on the other hand it goes back to the original way in terms of depictions and shows aliens as these weird little grey men flying in saucers, which some people criticize, but I appreciate, because lately the trend is to show aliens as the weirdest and trendiest creatures possible, moving away from the original form. The film's distinctiveness then makes it a fairly memorable and entertaining one-off, which further distinguishes itself by virtually going nonstop on alien chases, and by not talking, the film cleverly avoids filler, and virtually everything that it wants to tell us, it delivers it in a wonderful way in the form of a constant, perfectly paced musical score (and it plays a huge role here), the main character's emotions, or clever plays with the locations. As a result, I was unexpectedly surprised at how good a piece of work it actually was, until all my positive feelings were finally washed away by the sentimentally flabby finale, which ruined all the previous action-driven suspense and great visuals with its oddly overwrought final journey into the emotional core of the heroine and her painful trauma. (?????) An eternal shame and a missed chance to create a new kind of UFO flick, of which unfortunately not many are being made these days... (09/24/2023)