User reviews

The spine of the DVD says "Horror" on it. Totally inaccurate. Monolith is one part survival thriller (low on thrills), and one part science fiction.

Home-wrecking former pop sensation mom is worried her guy is cheating on her, so she drives his armored ultra-high tech SUV with toddler in tow to pay him a visit. She gets re-routed by her "smart" vehicle onto a shortcut... through the desert. She hits a deer (or at least something with antlers), gets out to check on it, and, well, her little boy, playing with her cell phone, puts the vehicle into lockdown mode, trapping him inside. That is some irresponsible s#!t.

I liked the idea of this car, and where car technology is taking us. For the bulk of this film, anyhow, it seems like a feasible place in the future to go. A vehicle that takes safety to the nth degree, and you can have a conversation with it! (complete with A. I. communication barriers).

Unfortunately, not much happens in this film. There is a character set up where you kind of grow to dislike bad mom, but at the same time feel a little bad for her. Then she gets locked out, and spends the rest of the movie making futile attempts to get back in. I actually thought the lead actress (Katrina Bowden) in this was good. She doesn't play it overly dramatic, and I think ultimately grew as a character to not take her son for granted. Then there's this total cop-out of a resolution, that I think is best left undiscussed. It does raise a number of unanswered questions.

I am a fan of movies with a very small cast, limited locations, isolation. It held my interest enough to give it 5 stars.

This movie has its issues but it also has entertainment value. If you enjoy endless vistas of desolate mountains then even if you don't care for the film itself, the heavy reliance on breathtaking shots of the multi-coloured Utah (likely the Paria mountains).

Beyond the geology and macho car, the kid is good and the hopeless terror of the protagonist is sometimes genuine, other times humorously not.

This car is so smart that that it has every safety feature possible, it can even differentiate between the adult and child passengers by their weight....and yet there's no feature that keeps you from locking your kid in the car?????? That part was just too unbelievable to overlook.

This chick is without question, one of the dumbest people in the world and has no business traveling unaccompanied with a small child. Because of course when I travel with my child through a blazing hot desert, I make sure he's in a furry bear suit. It had a lot of promise but ultimately you can't get through so many "I can't believe she's that dumb" moments.

Well Where do we start with this one??Irresponsible wife takes a road trip across the desert with a small child in back seat.Yes really.The car is the safest car available,Futuristic/unbreakable/bulletproof/foolproof/drives itself etc. Well off she goes in it and the kid in tow.She doesn't get the technology of it so when computer tells her to take a short cut cos of an accident ahead she goes down a dirt track,and guess what there aren't any signs and its dark.Kid plays with his Bluetooth device and hey presto!!! He;s locked in Thats the concept of story!!!What happens from now on is the most unintelligent rubbish possibly to ever hit the screens YES THAT BAD.Sorry but the truth needs to be told.If you watch it believe me YOU WILL WANT TO REVIEW IT!!!You will feel that need!!!

The movie is not even close as bad as the user reviews are making it out to be. Seriously. There are syfy channel productions with a higher rating. And this is way above them. Nice idea, super clean cinematography (even though I normally don't like it like this) and the actress is also "ok". Sure there are cringe moments. But for a sci-fi TV movie that was all pretty much as passionate as it gets.

The other reviews cover a lot of what I'd like to say. The movie is far too full of commercials. It's boring. It's tense but not for the right reasons. It's hard to like any of the characters.

Questions: Who slaps on a pair of leather pants when it's 108 degrees? Who puts their child in a fluffy bear suit on the same blazing hot day?

I'm Italian but I have not been part of it. The film is not perfect (many mistakes by the plot and the actors) but I was very convinced of the concept of the story, taken from an Italian graphic novel. The protagonist might be less stupid, but the things he does go hand in hand with the plot context. The film deserves, a great innovation in Italian cinema, and a good bet for foreigners.

Not sure why the negatives. The acting is decent. Effects on the car are cool. Shrug, movie was OK for me. Solid 5 out of 10. I have watched far worse.

Everything is armored and automatic, is that safe, or rather a recipe for disaster? Well, find out when a suspective wife takes a completely unnecessary trip through LA desert. Surprisingly it is not unwatchable, and does keep the suspense going throughout the movie, however a few things really keeps it in the lower bracket of entertainment:

First - child is crying all the time, alarms are beeping, woman is shouting, it is just pathetic and unpleasant in a way that it does not advance the movie anywhere.

Second - the main character, Sandra, has every negative trait in the book, she is jealous, irresponsible, clingy, weak (physically and mentally), bad decision maker etc etc. You just want to throw something at the screen due to her stupid actions. At least she is a cute singer...

Third - for the life of me I could not understand why she took her child with her and not left him with her mother-in-law, even if she did decide to drive to LA, what was she hoping to do there with the child?

I think overall rank is somewhere between 4 and a 5, I decided to be generous and give it a 5 due to being at least interesting for the most part. Watch if are planing to buy a Cybertruck :-) Exact score: 45 / 100.

A good car thriller. I Supposing it would be a 'Wrong Turn' type movie but actually found it like bollywood flick 'Trapped' starred by Rajkumar Rao. Good movie. A child is locked down in a high tech car accidently between the road trip with his mother. And mother trying her best to release her child but 'Vault' mode did not open so easily. What is then? See the movie. Although here rating are mostly negatives, but movie is watchable at once for thriller experience. However sometimes movie trails and we are losing attention, but again in last part we found it interesting. The car is attractive and every such a car is fascinating me ever. Acting by Katrina Bowden is well. Location and camera work is good and natural, it makes real feel in such story. This is plus point as me. Despite some loopholes movie is good and watchable.

A mother tries to get out her child from a car it was locked automatically when she came out of emergency.. I dont bother about other reviewers and crictics...i lik this movie very much.. Nice story and screenplay and seat edge thriller.. Must watch for thriller fans..

The former hipster singer Sandra (Katrina Bowden) quits her career when she has the baby David. Her husband, the also singer Carl (Damon Dayoub), gives the safest car in the world, Monolith, to her. When he travels to Los Angeles, Sandra decides to visit her parents with David. Monolith's artificial intelligence Lilith helps Sandra to drive in a safe way. When Sandra suspects that Carl may be cheating her in Los Angeles, she decides to head with David to the City of Angels, and gives her cell phone to entertain David, despite Carl's warning that the car may be controlled by the cell phone. Sandra decides to smoke a cigarette, and overrides Lilith's sensors turning the car into manual. Out of the blue, she hits a deer in a shortcut and leaves the car to see the damage. David locks the car using the cell phone turning into the safest mode, the vault mode, and is trapped inside. Now Sandra needs to find a way to save her son.

"Monolith" (2016) is a thriller with a tense plot and not so bad as indicated in many reviews. The problem is that Sandra is a stupid character, and everything bad happens with her due to her idiocy. Recalling the film, I can list at least the following: (1) She arrives at her parent's home, and suspects of Carl is cheating on her. Instead of leaving David with her parents, she drives with the baby boy. (2) She dresses the boy with a hot fantasy to cross the desert during the day. (3) She gives her cellphone to David, where it is possible to have full control of the car. (4) She turns her car into manual to smoke a cigarette in a secondary narrow and winding road during the night. (5) Her son is asthmatic and she smokes a cigarette with him inside the car. (6) Her lack of confidence in her husband indicates that their marriage is over. Why head to Los Angeles with David to confront Carl? Anyway, the film entertains and Katrina Bowden has a good performance. The problem are the writers that could have written something less stupid. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Monolith"