garretsr Reviews

The Midnight Club (2022)

Dragged on -- too much plot left open for Season 2

[5/10 · 3 March 2023]

I watched all of these, and the first couple of episodes opened a number of plot lines. Unfortunately, by the end, most of these plot lines were still almost complete mysteries, as if they were holding them back for Season 2.

Most of the later episodes did little to resolve the questions, while dealing with stories that might have been interesting, if the main plot lines were also moving forward.

I am reminded of lots where the producers said "Everything happens for a reason." but failed to point out that they were still trying to come up with a reason.

While I might have watched an episode or two of a second season to see if it went anywhere, I recently heard that the show was not renewed and find myself ambivalent.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Wakanda goes on forever and ever and ever . . .

[5/10 · 15 November 2022]

The film's biggest flaw is that it is just slow. The vast majority of the time is spent on dialogue that does nothing to move the plot forward. The dialogue is not funny, exciting, inciteful, or even memorable.

The movie is almost three hours long, which is acceptable if it entertains, but the brief bits of entertainment get you nowhere. There are also cheesy references to indigineous peoples' culture that got more laughs than sympathy. For example when an elder shows up with a lip plate--even ignoring the fact that it is a male elder and lip plates are generally used by female tribe members --the caricature caused laughs and groans from the audience. If the character said anything important, nobody heard it because nobody took him seriously. I hope that the character was not intended as comic relief.

Goodnight Mommy (2022)

English version is better than German, but the other was best.

[6/10 · 14 October 2022]

**** Spoilers Below ****

I watched both the German languange and the English remake and this one was better. The main difference is that the main plot twist is evident too early in the German.

The biggest problem with the German version was that the key plot twist was evident too soon. The English.version did a better job of concealing it.

In the German version, it is very evident that the Mutter is refusing to interact with one son. The German version tries to mask this by making Mutter weird and maybe supernatural (weird nude scened in forest with superspeed head twist), but the cat is out of the bag.

The English version does a better job. Mother does not overtly ignore the one son. Mother is still creepy, but the things she does are more in line with a disturbed woman that an actual monster.

However, if you are like me and remember seeing this plot before, you might have seen "The Other" from 1972. I spent the last third of the movie knowing that I had seen this plot before, but could not rember the name until I read another user's comment.

I did not rewatch the Other, so my statement that it was the best is based on the fact that I still remembered it after almost 50 years. I might not find a 1972 horror film as interesting if I watched it again. Also, I am not sure if the Other inspired this film, or the similarities were a coincidence.

The Circle (I) (2018)

Very good 8 minute film -- watched it streaming

[8/10 · 26 April 2021]

This was a very good short film. It was only about 7.5 minutes long (10.5 with credits) and was easily located for streaming.

It is a nice vignette about family relationships and art as a unifying force. The plot is concise and easy to follow. I will say that I was surprised by some of the plot points.

Given how short the film is, further discussion of the plot would likely give away too much.

For those who care, this follows the traditional (Aristotelian) unities in that it the action occurs in a small town over less than 24 hours. However, it wouldn't be considered a classical tragedy, but would likely be considered a tragedy under the modern Hegelian Tragedy standard.

WandaVision (2021)

I don't get it; am I missing something? (2 episodes in)

[6/10 · 18 January 2021]

As I write this, only the first two episodes have been released. However, I do not know if I will watch another episode. The first two episodes were boring and appear pointless. If you did not already know who Vision and the Scarlet Witch are, you would not be watching this show. So, there is no point to any long setup about them.

While I felt nostalgia when seeing Kitty Forman from that 70s show in the roll of a pre-70s housewife, none of it was funny and I could care less if I ever see her character again. The same is true of all of the supporting characters that they introduced.

I have seen reviews suggesting that there is a deeper meaning, that I should pay more attention, and that I should wait, but the problem is that I just don't care anymo . . .

Time Trap (2017)

A surprisingly good streaming low budget Sci-Fi movie

[8/10 · 15 September 2020]

If you want a Sci-fi movie that will amaze you with special effects, then this is not for you. I streamed this on the TV, so the experience may be different than at a film festival (in theater). The overall plot was interesting, and got much better as the movie went forward. At first I was ready to turn it off, later I was interested. You really don't know where the plot is going to end up until the last ten minutes of the movie.

The special effects are decent, but they are nothing that we haven't seen before. The setup for the main characters is a bit strained, but once you are past that, the movie proceeds with a decent pace, with the characters discovering / revealing information at a regular intervals.

There are definitely unexplained plot lines, but in the end, it is a decent, low budget movie.

Nigerian Prince (2018)

Decent film, some plot holes, clearly made on a low budget

[7/10 · 26 August 2020]

Full disclosure: We streamed this film in our house during Covid, so the viewing experience was different more like watching with occasional commentary than if it was in a movie theater.

The good: I generally liked the film. I found it entertaining and interesting enough to keep my attention. While watching, you could tell that it was made on a budget, but they did a good job with the film. The plot kept us interest by leaving us guessing what the characters are doing and why they were doing it. The movie was not super fast paced but there were tense moments (including violence) and things were sufficiently broken up that it did not have long dragging segments.

The bad: If I had one complaint, it would be the setup. The history of why the protagonist is sent to Nigeria is left very vague and affected the evaluation of the movie. An ancillary question to the plot is why anybody would think sending the protagonist to Nigeria was good idea? This question is so pervasive that it made it tough to suspend disbelief and tough to relate to the protagonist. Our group's speculative assessments of this issue ranged from 1. he is a young adult who, like most kids, is stuck with his parents' decisions because he is too young to legally make his own decisions, to 2. he is an evil (or amoral) thug who is on the run from his dark past. This speculation had a large impact on whether each viewer was able to identify with, and be interested in, the protagonist and what happened to him, ultimately determining how much each liked the movie. I was closer to the first group, so liked the movie more than others that watched with me.

Ad Astra (2019)

A series of boring, unrelated events

[3/10 · 25 September 2019]

Most scenes are one-off episodes that do little or nothing to advance the story and are boring. There is virtually no coherent story and, but for one or two lines of dialog, almost every scene could be removed without even being missed.

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Horribly written; Good effects; 2003 Canadian TV version was better written

[4/10 · 9 March 2018]

Does anybody spend money on writers? This had so much potential and it was just boring. Lot's of screen time wasted showing how great the special effects were, at the expense of having an interesting, coherent, plot. If you have not read the book, you might not even be able to follow the movie. The movie starts numerous unnecessary sub-plots that are forgotten by the end of the movie. At some points it even sounds like the characters are mocking the writing.

The child actors did as good a job as anybody could with horrible writing. The adult actors were mediocre, but also had to deal with horrible dialog. Reese Witherspoon was the exception, she did a great job, but may have had a better character to work with.

Many of the effects were pretty good. Unfortunately, this is not 1979, so the effects alone can't carry the picture like in Star Trek , The Motion Picture. If you want to see a better adaptation of the book, watch the 2003 Canadian TV version.

Hostiles (2017)

Little action; Plot only works if no characters had ever been in

[3/10 · 11 February 2018]

This isn't the worst movie I've seen, but it's near the bottom. The movie dragged on and on with long pointless introspection. The occasional actions scenes were brief and sometimes boring.

The plot only works if you accept that, decades after the Colorado War ("war" with native Americans from 1863-1865), all of the area from New Mexico to Montana is so incredibly dangerous that everybody one meets outside of a town will be a ruthless killer. This is juxtaposed with the fact that the area is so incredibly civilized that nobody takes basic measures preparing for violence. This applies to all of the characters, even the "bad guys" seem intent on getting themselves killed.

Characters repeatedly fail to take even basic precautions when they know that they are in mortal peril. It's like the characters read the script, know that they are destined to die, so just don't care enough to try to prevent it.

The characters are so oblivious that one wonders if the writer, Scott Cooper, had ever scene a violent film or TV show, seen a western, or even been on an elementary school playground as a kid. Here's are some real-world writing hints that most writers would have figured out:

1. When people are in dangerous areas where they might get massacred, they tend to keep weapons on hand. 2. When unarmed women and children are in the middle of a massacre, they tend to run away, fast. 3. When sociopaths come across a larger, well armed, military convoys, they usually avoid it. 4. When psychotic sociopaths kidnap women from a larger, well armed, military convoys, they try to hide or they find a defensible position. 5. When anybody attempts to threaten or kill well-armed military convoys, they don't give idle threats so the military personnel can prepare, don't threaten the military personnel then let them draw their weapons, don't threaten the military from an open, clustered, indefensible position, and don't keep posturing when the military personnel have drawn weapons and are aiming at them.

13 Reasons Why (2017–2020)

Good show, Muddled / wrong message, flawed, but well done

[9/10 · 3 May 2017]

If you are looking for a show with a clear message don't watch this show. People may find their own messages, but the shows messages were muddled at best. The clearest messages are:

* You don't know what other people are going through, so try to be nice. * The littlest thing can set a suicidal person off, so don't blame yourself. * You are never going to fully understand why somebody commits suicide. * A truly suicidal person can find excuses (a/k/a reasons) to kill herself or himself, no matter what anybody says or does.

I still liked the show. It did a good job looking at a hard subject. Even though the making of tapes felt a little too meticulous for a teenager who was uncertain whether to commit suicide. However, that is forgivable as a story-telling technique.

What was unforgivable was the mixed messages on when is a rape a rape and whether to get involved. The two most conflicting reasons were just horrible: 1. Bryce was a reason for raping Hannah. 2 Clay was a reason because he stopped making out with her when Hannah said "no". WHAT??? Both of those came near the end of the series, completely overwhelming the other 11 "reasons," including Bryce's earlier rape of her friend. Yes, Hannah said Clay was not at fault, but it was clear he was a "reason".

Next you have the gratuitous 1 last chance of talking with the school counselor, then listing him as reason 13 because, when Hannah walked out of his office, and he did not run after her and do something (what, tackle her, reveal to the entire school she was having problems, something else? If he thought she was suicidal then he should have done something, but she was, at- best, ambiguous about suicide. This, the treatment of Clay, and Hannah's meticulous recording of 13 tapes imply that Hannah was coming up with excuses to justify her decision to commit suicide and nothing short of mind- reading and forced mental health treatment could have stopped her.

All in all, it was a good series. If it gets people to talk about their issues and not commit suicide, then it was fantastic. I thought the male lead, Dylan Minnette, did a great job at playing the socially clueless good-boy. It's been 30 years since I was in High School, but I still related best with his character.

Cop Car (2015)

Good film with slow start -- Not a "Feel Good" film

[8/10 · 22 March 2017]

I had never heard of this film but my Tivo picked it up. It turned out to be a pretty good, apparently low budget film.

The beginning is slow as the movie spends a bit of time trying to set up the improbable event that leads to the main narrative. (Anybody who knows the name of the movie and/or has read anything about the movie knows what is coming, but I will avoid saying it just in case.) Once that events happen, things flow along fairly steadily.

The limited cast does a good job. I though Camryn Manheim's role was especially good because it was a very dark comic relief. It was so good that I wasn't sure that there was really any comedy rather than just nervous release/relief.

The movie presents a dark outlook on the world (or maybe just rural America), so don't watch it if you are easily depressed.

Manchester by the Sea (2016)

Too long, pointless, and pretentious. Am I missing something?

[6/10 · 8 January 2017]

I must be missing something. This movie reminded me "The Master" where the script was so pointless that I didn't care about any of the adult characters and only cared a little about the child characters. None of the characters seemed to care about each other either, so maybe that was the point. The acting might have been great, but how would I know and why would I care?

Casey Affleck's character was the only one that had any depth. Unfortunately, with the exception of a flashback scene, Affleck played the part with less emotion than Marlin Perkins playing Mister Spock.

I assume the lack of emotion was part of the Director's plan, because other than Michelle Williams, none of the adult characters had any emotion. Is there something in the water of Manchester that leaves everybody stoned? Given the events of the story, somebody should have a reaction other than "oh well".

Lucas Hedges, who played a 16 year old, occasionally showed some emotion, but it was completely out-of-line with the story or the character.

Erica McDermott's character would have been interesting, unfortunately, her character only had one line that mattered, and they never managed to follow up on it despite a movie length of two and a half hours.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Spend money on writers, not just actors.

[5/10 · 25 March 2016]

If you like Terrance Malick movies, then you will probably like this. For anybody else, it's not the worst Batman or Superman movie ever, but it tries to be. There is no motivation for any of the characters. The acting might have been great, but you don't care because none of this made any sense.

HORRIBLE VILLAIN; LEX LUTHOR SHOULD BE A GENIUS: Superhero movies must you have a good villain. This Lex Luthor was not even Lex Luthor, much less a good one. I'm sure Eisenberg did a good job on playing him, but if you are not going to make Lex Luthor a genius, then scrap the script. This Luthor has no real goals, diabolical or otherwise. This guy doesn't seem to notice or care if he gets caught.

SPOILERS BELOW THIS POINT

THEY MADE BATMAN STUPID: Like Lex Luthor, this Batman is not a genius and he's not just paranoid. Rather, this Batman is a blithering idiot who is also a raving lunatic. If you are going to take liberties on the two most basic features of batman, just create a new character. Also, since when does Batman channel Sarah Conner by having dreams of the world ending?

SUPERMAN RETURNS – THE SEQUEL: You can tweak Superman's powers (e.g., Superman II), but not his weakness (e.g., Superman Returns). KRYPTONITE DOESN'TSTOP AFFECTING SUPERMAN JUST BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT IT TO. Like Superman Returns, this Superman mysteriously overcomes his kryptonite weakness to save the day. How? Like when Brandon Roth did it in superman returns, we don't know how! More importantly, did any of the writers notice that Wonder Woman was right there and had the power to use the spear. She could have used the kryptonite spear without having to overcome a weakness.

WONDER WOMAN WAS HOT: She was probably the best character in the movie, but had no real role. She steals a stolen hard drive, but can't use it. Well that was exciting. The only point for having her in the show is that she should be the only one who has strength enough to use the kryptonite spear to "kill" Doomsday. Unfortunately, Superman decides that Kryptonite no longer affects him, so the Wonder Woman character is pointless.

DOOMSDAY WAS OK: For an animated Villain, Doomsday was not bad. Also, since most movie goers don't only know that he's the guy that killed superman, you can take some liberties (like letting Kryptonite kill him).

WHY WERE JONATHAN KENT AND ALL THE OTHER POINTLESS CHARACTERS INCLUDED? I get that Nicholas Cages is a great fan and was almost superman, but was there any point to his character, or Superman's trip to the arctic? You already have a cast of 295 (according to IMDb 3/25/2016) maybe you should cut something out.

Gone Girl (2014)

I'm going to read the book now.

[9/10 · 2 November 2014]

The movie was great! The who-dun-it and will-they-get-away-with-it aspects worked superbly. I was hooked and waiting for the reveal throughout the movie.

The characters were especially interesting because so many of them had contrasting strong points and flaws. There were characters that should have been sympathetic, but the character flaw overwhelmed the sympathy, and vice versa.

I suspect I would not have liked it as much if I had read the book first. I'm not sure whether the book will be as good now that I know what happens. Either way, I will probably go back and read Gillian Flynn's two earlier novels.

The Judge (2014)

Long, boring, inconsistent, and unrealistic

[6/10 · 12 October 2014]

The cast may have done a great job, but there was not much to work with. The story takes over 2 hours to tell, and in the end you are asking why did it take so long. The various plots and sub-plots might have been interesting if they ever lead anywhere (or took less time).

The characters relationships with each other change from scene to scene without any good explanation for why. By the end of the movie, one has to speculate regarding what happened and why it happened.

There is also a weird juxtaposition of what appear to be realistic courtroom scenes with reasonable attorney objections and rulings by the judge (think serious version of My Cousin Vinny) followed by over-the- top theatrical Hollywood courtroom scenes where one wonders if the attorneys and judge have fallen asleep or left the courthouse.

By the end of the movie, I was waiting for something to happen to make the movie worthwhile and it never did.

The Maze Runner (2014)

Mediocre -- adds worst part of series and leaves out much of book

[6/10 · 20 September 2014]

If you read the book, prepare for disappointment. Although more complete that the book, the movie is mediocre. It omits the most interesting elements of the Maze Runner, while adding the worst elements from the sequels (The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure).

At the heart of the book is solving the puzzle of getting out of the maze, which that has eluded the runners for years. That should be the heart of the movie. Instead, the audience discovers that the maze could never have been solved, and but for the fortuitous discover and use of a device the maze would not be solved and everybody would die. Deus ex machine is a bad plot solution, but "Machine" ex machine would make ancient Greek theatergoers cringe.

The movie also discards any attempt to develop relationships between the kids. In the movie, the entire plot is explicitly and inexplicably compressed to three days. This means that any attempt to portray Thomas as being anything but the new outsider fall flat. It's a movie, we don't have to see every day, just let us know that time has passed.] The grievers and the conflict over Ben's sting are nonsensical in the movie. E.g., in the movie nobody has ever survived a night in the maze, the grievers only come out at night when the maze is closed so nobody has ever seen one, the grievers are what sting people (no beetle- blades) but the surprising thing about Ben's sting was that it was "in broad daylight," not that he's dying something had stung him.

The screenplay's attempt to give more of an explanation at the end of the movie is understandable, but horribly executed. While the book version ended with little explanation of "why" the kids were in the maze, a movie that left that out would be doomed. However, when one of the biggest criticisms of the sequels is that the author couldn't come up with a decent explanation, then that's the element you should change or explain in the movie! Not these writers, they make the explanation even less believable and more disappointing than the book. At least with the Matrix, the Coppertop explanation was fun to watch (and generated millions in product placement revenue).

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Boring!! How did they make Spider-man Boring?

[4/10 · 5 May 2014]

They actually managed to make Spider-man boring!!! Most of the movie is spent on scenes and relationships that are, at best, tangential to the plot. An efficient version of the movie could have been done in a half- hour TV special. We spent most of the movie waiting for something, ANYTHING INTERESTING TO HAPPEN! While Spidey is usually the most conflicted/introspective of the major superheroes, he is still an action hero. The result was exactly opposite of 2011's "Thor", in which the normally flat and boring character had an engaging story.

The writers apparently used Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, as a template, but decided that the 42 minutes and 37 seconds of Aragorn / Awren romance was the best part of that movie. So, they expanded those scenes and made the movie that combines the worst elements of Spider-man, Return of the King, and Waiting For Godot (a play in which the main characters hang themselves because they are bored).

The only reason I give it 4 stars is that 1. it had decent special effects, 2. it set up future movies (anybody recognize Felicity Jones' character), 3. the plot, while boring, was comprehensible and internally consistent.

Bad Words (2013)

I'm shocked that I loved it

[9/10 · 28 March 2014]

I'm pleased to report that I loved this movie, even though I expected to hate it. Based on the previews, I expected that this movie would be dull and creepy with formulaic, humorless, jokes. However, it was interesting, funny, and not that creepy. Jason Bateman pulled off the near impossible task of being a jerk when dealing with small children while keeping the tone funny, rather than offensive. Even the inherently creepy parts were more funny than creepy.

Jason Bateman's inappropriate interactions with most of the child actors were inappropriate in juvenile ways, and the juvenile humor worked! Even the inappropriate interactions with co-star Rohan Chand were sufficiently funny that the creepiness didn't hurt the movie. Bad Words proves the comedic rule that: Mean or offensive jokes are acceptable if sufficiently funny.

Non-Stop (2014)

Boring beginning, good middle, poor ending

[6/10 · 1 March 2014]

This movie ran the gambit going from slow, to entertaining, to laughable. By the end, the viewer is certain that the writers fell into the common Hollywood trap of writing and selling the script before figuring out an ending.

The first twenty minutes or so were terribly slow (we were falling asleep in the theater).

After about 20 minutes, it picked up into a decent combination of an action and mystery movie (i.e., a who-dun-it with violence). When watching, one has to work pretty hard to suspend disbelief, and not think too hard about the characters' motivations.

The movie does pretty well up until about the last 15 minutes. At that point, it becomes clear that the writers (John W. Richardson and Christopher Roach) lacked a vision of how to end their story. The characters' reactions and comments become so unfathomable that your thinking "nobody would ever do/say that". I was left questioning of whether any of the characters were paying attention to what had just happened. The characters' comments during the epilogue make it clear that either the movie was shot out-of order or the ending was not rewritten to reflect changes in the script.

I only knocked off a point for the poor ending. It did not degenerate into a speech about saving the rain forest (kudos of you get that reference) but it left a lot to be desired.

Pacific Rim (2013)

Only watch for special effects

[4/10 · 13 July 2013]

This is a pretty bad movie. The acting is horrible but it is tough to tell because the movie is so poorly written. If it were just that the characters are as flat and predictable as a bad children's film then we could forgive it. I might even be able to forgive if there were just the major plot holes. However, they decided to break one of the cardinal rules of science fiction writing, which is "be consistent." To the extent that one can figure out the plot, there are huge problems with what is happening and why. The weapons and abilities of the robots and monsters seem to change based on the whim of the CGI animator. You have to wonder if anybody saw the entire movie script or plot line before the movie was complete.

Finally, there are the pointless back story and side stories. When you're group is the only hope of stopping the end of the world, I'm pretty sure that nobody is going to put up with people who waste time on political infighting and alpha male dominance.

Unraveled (III) (2011)

Interesting, especially if you are a lawyer

[8/10 · 28 August 2012]

I found this fascinating, but not fun. It was like watching a train wreck. I may have been more interested because I am an attorney. Specifically, as a civil litigator who practiced as a CPA for years before becoming an attorney, I found the interaction between Drier and his attorneys and consultants fascinating. Likewise, the level of incompetence on the parts of others that was necessary for him to get away with his scheme was just amazing.

While watching Drier, the questions of "what was he thinking" and "what is he thinking" are constantly in your mind. It's not clear whether he is remorseful or not. Drier clearly understands that what he did was wrong, but it is not clear that he is remorseful about anything except getting caught.

When you combine that with the post-conviction / pre-sentencing setting time frame of the conversations, it is strange and fascinating. Some of the the things that Drier is concerned about make sense, while others seem completely irrelevant given his circumstances.

Young Again (2010 Video)

Slow video and I didn't get it

[4/10 · 31 July 2012]

I am not sure if there is something left out of the video or if there is a deeper meaning that I just did not get. The video just sort of meandered and went nowhere.

Maybe it's because I watched the video on YouTube in 2012 without any real knowledge about it, but the video was slow and made no real sense. Maybe there was some hidden reference that I would have seen if I had seen the video somewhere else.

Given the potential of a quantum leap type time travel, albeit into one's own body, it seems like there would have been more to the story after the two adults jump into their childhood bodies. They just hang out and have a "first" kiss on the playground. If there was symbolism about confronting or running away from your past, leaving somebody behind, moving on, or something else, it was too subtle to figure out from the video.

That said, I gave a rating of 4 because it had me intrigued enough that I searched for, and found, the second half of the video on YouTube. The story of how I ended up finding and watching the first half is probably more exciting than the video, but, also embarrassing to me. So, like the video, I leave the readers/viewers guessing at what happened.

The American (2010)

Boring, slow, cliché, formulaic

[3/10 · 7 September 2010]

If they still had drive-ins, this would be a perfect date movie because there is nothing to miss.

Not only is this not an action film, even the few action scenes are boring. The characters do nothing. But the director lets you view every possible camera angle of them doing nothing.

Every fourth scene has a naked woman and even that is boring. Until the last naked scene, one is left wondering whether these scenes were put in because 1. the director likes the 1980s/1990s action movie formula of having multiple, pointless, sex scenes or 2. because Clooney is trying to maintain his reputation as a former "sexiest man alive", or 3. just to add to the length of the film.

There are countless minutes wasted with the characters walking by themselves or sitting by themselves in large public places that are inexplicably devoid of people. The "surprises" in the side stories are so predictable that they border on cliché.

The most interesting part of the movie was that the locations are mysteriously vacant of people leaving one wondering where everybody is. Unfortunately, near the end, we realize it was probably budget issues. Once the "action" finally starts, the films still avoids extras such that the large crowd that appears when it is necessary for once scene disappears by the next scene. Even though this is clearly the most exciting thing to happen to the town since World War II, nobody cares.

The Lovely Bones (2009)

This cannot be the same as the book

[3/10 · 24 January 2010]

Maybe the book by Alice Sebold had a world/afterlife that made some sense, but if you haven't read the book, the end of the movie makes no sense or is so completely perverted that one should never see this movie.

*** Warning there are spoilers below this point. *** In Peter Jackson's world, after being murdered, innocent children go to a "heaven" where they get to hang around with other of the murderers victims. Susie doesn't get to see her grandfather, who is notably absent from the world of the living or any other of her loved ones. Rather, she gets to spend eternity with her killer's other victims. Maybe they will all get to spend eternity discussing the worst/last day of each of their lives. I guess these kids' deaths might upset their loved ones who are already in heaven, so they have to be isolated.

The worst part is the timing coming just before the Murderer's demise. One is left wondering whether the Murderer's "punishment" will be to spend eternity with his victims.

The one good thing about this movie (that moves it from a 1 rating) was the performance of Stanley Tucci. He came across as really creepy when he needed to come across as really creepy.