A global environmental collapse forces world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce Earth's population.
Humane is directed by Caitlin Cronenberg which is her directorial debut.
Immediately what stood out to me about this movie is Caitlin Cronenberg in the director's chair, we now have three Cronenberg's directing which I'm not complaining at all. Humane is one of those movies where the ideas of the movie are better than the movie itself although for the most part I still think the movie is decent enough.
The performances are pretty solid, while the characters could have used a lot more work in the development department the performances especially from Jay Baruchel are a lot of fun. Baruchel and Emily Hampshire in particular work incredibly well together and actually kind of humorous at times as well. The rest of the cast aren't anything too crazy but they match the dark humorous tone the movie is going for.
I will say that Caitlin Cronenberg did a solid job with the directing and worked with what she could with the very undercooked script from Michael Sparaga, the atmosphere is absolutely there and quite honestly reminds me of a mix of The Purge (2013) and Ready Or Not (2019) although I do think it actually accomplishes far more than The Purge (2013) especially when trying to get it's message across (even though Humane doesn't do that very well either).
The main problem here is the writing, there's tons of ideas floating around in the movie such as classism, climate crisis and a few others. How the movie executes these ideas however leave so much more to be desired, the bare bone execution briefly explores these topics but never bothers to explore them in any meaningful way. Sure the movie ramps up towards the end and the gore is nice, there's even hints at the movie potential diving deeper yet it never happens.
It's frustrating because Humane isn't a bad movie, despite the very lacking execution everything else is quite fun to watch. There's some darkly hilarious moments that gave me a couple laughs, it just takes a bit to get going. I definitely think Caitlin Cronenberg has a lot of potential and is a filmmaker still keeping an eye out for in the future.
Humane is available on all VOD platforms.
6/10 C+
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