Sorry, this movie sucks

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Worst movie ever!! Lame!! Barely any talking. Sucked!

How this movie got a Metascore of 61 is beyond my comprehension. I am all for creative cinematography and movies representing today's culture but this movie can be described in 2 words. IT SUCKS. Boring and pointless. I got no insight into the lives of the victims or the killer. Who were the victims?? Who was the killer?? I was hoping for a look into what was a horrific event but all I got was 90 minutes of boredom.

Seen at the Viennale 2016: Put the blame on me, that I do not rate 8, 9 or 10 stars. To be honest I would rate it 6 (lower rating as it maybe should be, due to low budget, only one real actress, not even a real script it seems, and partly boring), but the sad beautiful music by Maica Armata lifts it up to a solid 7. The movie starts slow, very slow... and for sure you have to sit it through for the first 30 minutes. You should have a good afternoon nap and be 100% awake and attentive for this one. This is filmmaking at the highest intellectual level possible. The brain of Tim Sutton must be working like Rubik's Cube. At the beginning all bits and parts are all over the place. Slowly and then suddenly everything falls perfectly into place. Only 85 minutes are needed to spread out the overwhelming tragedy of the impossible coming true, the shooting of people in the dark room of dreaming and soul wandering, the cinema, by a young adult. And Sutton manages to pull away the carpet of security beneath our feet. We stay for a moment swaying at the abyss. Human kind is not safe, will never be safe, as long as people are not able to dream their own life in a friendly future. Sutton does not show the killing itself. Only several kids/adults during the day before they went to the cinema. But the horror builds up. Not because of the action in the movie itself, but because we know what will happen after the cameras have been turned off. Dark Night is a must see: the 85 minutes give us time to think different about the ambush - maybe in a more human way. Shall we think about such a horror in a more human way. Human mess will always be part of our life. Listen to Maica Armata to enjoy the good and the bad.

Tim Sutton's DARK NiGHT (USA) took the exact opposite approach as Quentin Tarantino & Alejandro González Iñárritu towards exploring his horrific subject matter… by NOT exploiting it. Loosely based on the Aurora, Colorado massacre in 2012, in which a gunman killed 12 and wounded 70 moviegoers attending a screening of Christopher Nolan's THE DARK KNiGHT RiSES, this haunting, slice-of-life exploration of the random events that led the townsfolk to the movie theater is paced like Claire Denis' Friday NiGHT (2002) and Gus Van Sant's ELEPHANT (2003). In fact, the cinematographer Helene Louvart, who shot Wim Wenders' PiNA (2011) and Agnes Varda's THE BEACHES OF AGNES (2008), was the perfect fit for the director's intense visual style. Combined with MEMPHiS (2013) and Pavilion (2011), Tim Sutton is an American filmmaker who is attempting movies that not only are beautiful to look at, but melodic to experience, no matter what the subject may be.Review taken from 2016 Sundance Film Festival wrap up at www.48hills.org