Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Dave Nesbitt Pros: None Cons: The writing: Infantile writing by typical hollywood children. The child is the adult and the adult is the child. Pace: Why don't we just dddddrrrraaaaggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg everything out to the 1,000,000 degree since we've got nothing of value to say. Flashbacks? In a horror flick? This was just plain stupid. stupid. stupid. Added nothing to this dumb effort. This writer is not capable of doing a decent flashback in the best of times.Hey but if you want to waste 91 minutes, go for it.

LastLeviathan This movie was really disappointing for me.While I did enjoy the first few flashbacks and the general story for about half the film, towards the end it just got annoying and ridiculous.Am I really supposed to believe that the girl who was whiny and cowering for the whole movie suddenly grows into some Mary Sue (TM) hero by the end? And killing the monster with fire in the way it happened is just ridiculously unrealistic, even for a movie like this.It's a shame. There are some things this movie gets right, I particularly liked the acting on the mothers part, even if some of the dialogue was shoddy. The monster design in general was good too and I always appreciate practical effects over CGI.The character of the daughter angered me more and more as the film went on with all her whining and annoying questions, though that is more the fault of the script than the actress, she's actually pretty decent.All in all, very disappointing.

pesic-1 You really just want to punch these characters in the face more and more as the film progresses. With every new instance of whining, cursing and pointless bickering, you feel the anger and frustration swell inside you. I wanted the monster to eat them and get it over with. I have never seen characters that annoyed me so much and made me hate them. And it took less than 30 minutes for that to happen. It's amazing. Add to that the poorly written dialogue and plot, and you get one difficult movie to endure. Forget the terror coming from the threat the monster poses. The real terror is waiting for the characters' mouths to open, as one anticipates the crap that is about to come out. The characters are so poorly written that they are not even consistent in their annoying behaviour. Oh no. The scared girl who five minutes earlier wouldn't even leave the car suddenly enters the woods for no reason. Then she sees something scary, but still doesn't run back to the car, and instead calls to her mother who (as everyone in the audience knows by now) has no intention of paying attention to her. See, if we know she is not going to answer, but the girl (who, as the first act of the film has established, knows how deranged her mother is better than anyone in the world) acts as though she doesn't, that makes the audience angry and frustrated. Unfortunately, almost every round of dialogue between characters and every action they undertake is at best questionable, if not outright nonsensical. I was screaming by the time the monster made its appearance, but not from terror; I was screaming at the characters, hoping they would die.

harrington-ian Bryan Bertino is such a unique voice in this genre. I highly recommend seeing this movie and it will surprise you in more than one way. Everyone in this movie gives great performances and the movie looks fantastic. Without giving anything away, you'd probably be surprised about how character driven this film really is. I just loved it.