I quite liked this movie. I wanted to rate it higher, unfortunately its unoriginality and predictability kept me from doing so... but it was definitely entertaining. The story is very "been there done that". Still interesting, just not wildly enthralling and following a familiar formula leading to the predictability.
I'd say the most successful part of this was the acting. I thought everyone did a really good job and that was a large factor in the level of engagement in this film. Small shout out to the girl in the very beginning. She had a very short scene but she killed it.
They did a good job with keeping up the spooky, atmospheric vibe throughout. It was disappointing that every time they showed the "monster" I was taken out of the moment because to me the prosthetics were unconvincing and looked a tad silly. I don't know what the budget was like on this production, but the movie looked really nice, so I was surprised by the kinda subpar special effects and CGI but that's not a deal breaker.
The story definitely could've used some fine-tuning and a little zest. The pacing was certainly on the slower side and edged on too slow but was fine. It started to get particularly interesting all of a sudden and then it ended... which was unfortunate. I would have loved to cut some of the filler that slowed the pacing down and had what was the ending happen at the beginning of the third anct and gotten some more story.
Regardless, I think this movie was successful as is and a lot of that success was carried by the actors so, bravo guys. 5.5 rounding down to a 5, would recommend.
I'd say the most successful part of this was the acting. I thought everyone did a really good job and that was a large factor in the level of engagement in this film. Small shout out to the girl in the very beginning. She had a very short scene but she killed it.
They did a good job with keeping up the spooky, atmospheric vibe throughout. It was disappointing that every time they showed the "monster" I was taken out of the moment because to me the prosthetics were unconvincing and looked a tad silly. I don't know what the budget was like on this production, but the movie looked really nice, so I was surprised by the kinda subpar special effects and CGI but that's not a deal breaker.
The story definitely could've used some fine-tuning and a little zest. The pacing was certainly on the slower side and edged on too slow but was fine. It started to get particularly interesting all of a sudden and then it ended... which was unfortunate. I would have loved to cut some of the filler that slowed the pacing down and had what was the ending happen at the beginning of the third anct and gotten some more story.
Regardless, I think this movie was successful as is and a lot of that success was carried by the actors so, bravo guys. 5.5 rounding down to a 5, would recommend.