Monsters: Dark Continent (2015)

Monsters: Dark continent is the sequel to the well received first movie 'Monsters' a film that was pretty solid but not all that great. So with Dark Continent, we get a film that is only set in the same universe and has none of the characters from the first. From what I had seen beforehand, I was expecting something that could be fun, instead I got a film that was dull and depressing. Never have I seen a film try so hard to beat me in the face with it's sadness, turning it into a blood pulp of melancholy. Except it's emotional punches are so weak, they don't even scratch the surface and just you leave bored and irritated.(we get it war is horrible).
The films biggest problem is that it tries to be like the first film by minimising the use of monsters, but suffers from it rather than succeeds. The film feels like an Iraq war movie script, that had the Monsters added in later on. But it is the few moments involving the monsters that provide the only interesting parts of the film, the rest just feels dull and tries way too hard to be a downtrodden potrayal of war.
Overall this is a very disappointing movie, that just fails massively. I would have much rathered two hours of people fighting monsters in ridiculous ways, at least that might have been fun to watch. In the end though this film is everything it shouldn't have been.
*1/2