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My Review (Spoilers)


First of all, the movie begins with some solid character development, everyone feels natural and not to be acting, which of course is a good sign. More often than not in Hollywood films everyone is overacting to steal a split second of lime light which really takes away from the movie's ability to grasp you, to pull you in, to feel visceral...

Within 20 minutes the movie is off to a good start, I feel for the characters, and though I don't want anything to happen to them, I have a very bad feeling. You feel the kid's innocence and not the actor's strings on their characters.

Overall, the story moves verrrry slowly, I imagine it's good, sorta, but I couldn't get through it all, made it half way.





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Why anybody would think they can review something when they couldn't have been bothered to watch it, is beyond me.

I'm sorry that this movie appears to be out of the range of your attention span, so might I suggest you watch Saw, you might like that kind of thing more. No guess-work and you don't have to pay much attention to it to know what's happening.

This movie was actually very good, but you'd have to see it all to understand what was happening, the first 2 parts make no sense otherwise. The third part pulls it all together...

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Wow, what a rote and childish response.

You will see I didn't rate the movie, because I didn't finish it, but please stop with the cliche, go see Saw BS.



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Why would I care if you rated it or not? But if you had instead, I wouldn't have had to read a "review" from somebody who couldn't have been bothered to actually watch the movie.

As for being "rote", you're the first person I've ever told to watch Saw, based on your "review", it seems like it might be a little..Faster for you.

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WTH? Does the OP know how moronic they sound? You didn't watch the movie and you're going to review it? What kind of response were you expecting?

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She can review the amount she DID watch, you morons. Seriously, use your damned heads. But here, just because cretins aplenty are reflexively defending their awful taste in movies, here's MY review:

The performers. Authentic, in that they were trying to play barely formed children. Especially noticable were the inexplicably childish girls in the first part, actually hiding their faces behind their hands for extended periods a lot like a five year old might. And no one more mature. Also, the pathetically shallow serial killer boy. He can't come out of the closet or his dead mother will be angry. Even tho' she's already angry. Stay in that closet boy.

The cinematography. Adequate. No sign of a boom mike.

The score. Adequate. Fans of the failure like to proselytize about the score being perfect. In that case, it would have also had to have been sounding a lot more immature than it was supposed to be. Other than that, could have been worse.

Story. (Spoilers). The story was supposed to show a bad night for some teens, then a tying up of loose ends, story-wise. According to the previously mentioned fans, it was also supposed to be the intellectually stimulating background of a tormented boy growing into a half-assed monster. The first part was covered. Well, mostly. The bad night happened, and then some gratuitous history to show-case the half-assed monster, and then the 'creation' of the monster was kind of spewed at you. There were in fact a good amount of logical abortions. Most were presented already on this board by non-fans. The fans themselves find nothing wrong with the movie, which obviously ruins their credibility. As an arbitrary rating, the movie focuses too much on gore, and not enough on torment. An already dead girl throwing up turds or whatever doesn't make up for some ACTUAL proof that the boy was really being made psychotic by his mother. Him not going outside and him getting 'locked' in a closet aren't enough to justify murder. Or even very hostile jaywalking. Not to mention the logical fallacy of the boy becoming the darling of the police force. I mean Ted Bundy did, except he didn't. He was more of a skulking loner masquerading as a cop. Not a friend to everyone. Of course the chief didn't fall for the boy's tricks. That obviously covers the full amount of realism needed. And then the very end. The boy gets to shoot his enemy in the chief and only THEN are all the ghosts strong enough to take him out. I guess they needed some chief power. Makes sense. Well, except for the other cops. Maybe because they just lost their chief power they couldn't even TRY to stop the best damned cop and friend a pinoy ever had.

The catering. Awful.

The reviews. Awful. Too many posting about how there were clever twists and turns. The only turns were a little girl into a gate and twenty-something teens running off the road over a ten year period. No twists at all.

The movie. Not good. I would consider it a sophomoric effort from a country not especially known for their clever twists and turns.

And there. Now you have a review from someone who just watched the entire thing and thought it was stupid. And boring. And not even REMOTELY clever, intelligent or compelling. You're welcome.

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Thank you, when it comes to the internet, there's such a pandemic of hateful, juvenile morons with no communication skills that I find it best just to ignore them, they only show their lack of value, and I have much more important things to do than argue with them.

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