From The Hollywood Reporter · David Rooney · · 30s
Whalefall Review
Austin Abrams struggles in dumb thriller Whalefall after mutating into a tentacled monster.
In brief
Austin Abrams struggles in dumb thriller Whalefall after mutating into a tentacled monster. Austin Abrams' film Whalefall fails as a serious nature thriller after his Resident Evil transformation. Originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
Whalefall
Austin Abrams plays a college kid trapped inside a sperm whale's stomach with one hour of oxygen.
“According to press notes for the deeply silly and painfully sappy Whalefall, while it has never happened, a sperm whale could swallow a person.”
Austin Abrams
After mutating into a tentacled monster in Resident Evil, he battles a vicious giant squid.
“After mutating into a tentacled monster in Resident Evil, and here doing battle with a vicious giant squid, Austin Abrams deserves cephalopod compensation pay.”
Whalefall
The film takes itself way too seriously as a nature survival thriller.
“Forget Jonah, forget Geppetto and Pinocchio, this is a nature survival thriller set firmly in the real world — even if it plays more like imitation sci-fi — about a college kid who works out his daddy issues while trapped inside the multi-chambered stomach of a big-ass cetacean with roughly an hour’s worth of oxygen.”
The short version
Austin Abrams' film Whalefall fails as a serious nature thriller after his Resident Evil transformation.
