Monsters (2010)
An excellent science fiction drama that takes place in the near future in the wake of an alien infestation that has made the US / Mexico border a no-go area.
Scoot McNairy plays a photographer enlisted by a rich businessman to bring his daughter (Whitney Able) back across the border from Mexico to the United States.
As much a character study as it is sci-fi and notable in that first time director Gareth Edwards cleverly utilises his modest budget to make the viewer believe that giant squid like alien creatures are actually walking the earth - an earth patrolled by fighter jets, warships and sectioned off by a huge wall which runs for miles. Monsters blends it's genres beautifully as road movie, romance and creature feature come together to produce something both suspenseful and involving with two leads that have genuine chemistry.
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