Woodland Grey

I don't mind a slow burn, but sometimes I get the sense that a movie is just wasting time. Woodland Grey does that right from the beginning and never really paces any of the exposition as well as it could. We get long, drawn out segments where the point is made, but the scene still continues. Eventually, by the middle of the movie, some interest has been built, and we are given enough clues to want to see where this all ends up. Then, in the final act, the characters just seem to be going around in circles. The same moments get repeated, dream sequences tease resolution, and we really don't learn much about what we want to know. I don't have any criticisms about the performances or filmmaking; I just felt like they never decided what was actually going on and left the story vague rather than think it through first. Movies can leave some questions for the viewer and finish on an open-ended moment, but they should feel like the filmmakers at least knew what they were presenting. When the story just keeps piling on strange happenings with no coherence, I usually assume they just didn't want to wait to work on the script enough before going ahead with filming.