SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains spoilers. In “Ex Machina” director Alex Garland’s latest, “Men,” the leaves are so green, the tone is so ominous, and the men are so … Rory Kinnear-y th…
-y that audiences are all but guaranteed to leave this folk-horror bizart-house offering feeling disturbed, even if no two viewers can agree on what bothered them about it. There’s that shocker of an ending, of course, but we’ll postpone discussion of that till the penultimate paragraph of this review, so as not to spoil the fun — even if, by the time you see it, “Men” is already likely to be defined by its over-the-top finale.
To illustrate the split, Garland opens the film with a splash of slo-mo surrealism, as Harper stares out the window and sees her husband, James , falling in slow motion, suspended among so many glistening drops of water. It’s raining men, and all that — though Garland and go-to composers Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow have a more sharpened sense of irony than that, using music to keep us off balance.
Harper reaches another tunnel, this one bricked over. Garner doesn’t make it easy to imagine the geography of this space, but then, few if any familiar movie-watching rules apply. Harper finds her way back home, but nowhere feels “safe.” She’s on the phone with her best friend Riley when the second of Kinnear’s characters appears: the naked man. Audiences notice him before she does, lurking in the garden, behind Harper’s back. She calls the police, and a female officer appears.
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