Around the 22-minute mark of this movie, I started writing this elegant silique about how this movie reminds me of 80s action flicks where it was just good guy vs. tons of bad guys. We didn’t need a massively overcomplicated plot, and all we needed was good entertainment, but the rest of the movie jumped between “Wow, that’s cool” to “Wow, this is terrible”. No One is Coming to Save You suffers from identity disorder, where it doesn’t know what it wants to accomplish.

The story revolves around Brynn, a woman living in a remote small town, grappling with her anxieties. The film attempts to explore her inner struggles and relationships with others, but it loses its focus. At its core, “No One Will Save You” could have been a modern-day “Home Alone” with a twist, where a woman uses household traps to fend off aliens and gather supplies. Instead, it wastes time with unnecessary subplots, including Brynn’s interactions with an older couple and her deceased friend or ex-girlfriend.

The aliens were perfectly done. Loved the simple design of them. I don’t imagine the budget for this movie was in the Marvel 300 million range, so making the scenes darker would hide any CGI errors. My only criticism was that the aliens were telepaths, and I didn’t like that because that’s a Game Over power. There is no reason for any alien to try to overpower Brynn when they can just pull her with their minds.

I don’t know if I’m right about this, but I think maybe the aliens aren’t the real threat, and they are being controlled by a parasite that takes over the body. Humans are being fed some mind-control-looking plant, so maybe the planet is conquering the galaxy by taking in all these hosts? I don’t know, but it’s never fully explained. A similar plot was done in the tv show Fallen Skies.

The ending was ambiguous, of course. I figured things were going too perfect initially to not end up as an artsy movie. It’s revealed that Brynn got into a fight with, I guess, her sister and killed her in anger with a rock and has been living with Trama….am I supposed to feel bad for her? Did the aliens pity her and reward her for being a murderer? If they stop by a prison, they’ll find many guys who feel bad for murdering someone.

The story ends with Brynn waking up happy, the sun shining, and everything seems to be back to normal. Brynn goes into town, gets a lot of happy waves, and dances in an old-time-looking Italian town…. then the camera pulls back, and we see the UFOs just hanging around.

So, what the hell is all this? Is she captured? Is she in the real world? Why are the aliens granting her this? I think it should’ve ended where she is in this happily ever after, and then you see that she’s just on the ship in a mind control field with the rest of the people on the dance floor, and that’s it. It’s just a wasted opportunity of a movie.

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