You guys are a lot kinder than me-I rate this film a 3, and barely that.
I just found it pretty bad overall.
I thought the 'mystery' was undone from the outset-knew the killer straight away when you realise he's the only one the horns don't work on. The crucifix as protection thing was also there-considering it was her crucifix in the flashbacks, another obvious element. So without the mystery element to the story-that was just lazy.
Also, I really hated the 'lusted' after her, then raped her-ummm, that's now how rape works, at all. Those who commit rape don't have an 'attraction' to the victim, they do so for power, domination, etc. Many rapists will tell you that their rapist, when doing so, had shown no signs of attraction. They lashed out and raped them. Some guy harbouring an attraction for decades...nah, he'd kill her based on anger, rejection...etc. If he couldn't have her, nobody would be allowed have her.
The other elements of the story-burning the lab so the DNA was destroyed by his dad etc-just laughable. All these things would basically mean his case would have been won, by him, not lost. Since the witnesses could easily be debunked-done.
Merrin was too abstract, too mysterious, so much so that she was less a character, more too mysterious to really grasp why Igg fell for her. I think she was a completely underdeveloped character, and the abstract element-I dunno if that was how the actress was told to play her, or if she was underwritten. It may be both-but she did not feel 3 dimensional at all. Just too much of 'oh, she's an angel...' well, fine, but angels have personalities too. Terribly underwritten. Bordering on 'Lovely Lisa' from the Room at times- everybody wants her.
Also the 'I have cancer' scene was done really terribly-they didn't even name the cancer-that was so lazy. It was bordering on 'I have breast cancer' from the Room. And even then they named the darn cancer-like, give it a name, even if it's makey uppy. 'A dangerous cancer that my mom died of'. Yeah, that's lazy writing.
There were too many unlikable characters-like, without any redeeming elements at all. So when some of them are 'helpful' to Igg-it was like, yeah, but you're so unlikable, I don't care.
The use of CGI in the film was pretty awful too. The death animation, the finale etc, was just terrible. The compositing in the murder scene made it look like it hadn't been done well-the snakes hovered too much-just bad compositing.
It was annoying too how much of the film just reminded me of Harry Potter-the outfits, the talking to CG snakes. The actual references to Harry Potter in the books didn't help.
I guess I expected too much from the director of Piranha 3d.
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