When I sat down to watch the 2023 movie "Raging Grace", I thought I was in for a horror movie. Truth be told, I had never actually heard about the movie prior to sitting down to watch it, but the synopsis sounded interesting enough, and it was labelled as a horror movie. So of course I opted to give the movie a fair chance.
The storyline and narrative in "Raging Grace" was a bit of a swing and a miss. Sure, there were things in the script that seemed interesting enough, but the overall impression that director Paris Zarcilla left me with throughout the course of the 99 minutes that the movie ran for was a bland one.
There wasn't a whole lot happening throughout the course of the movie, and you need to go about 75 minutes into the movie before things actually start to take off. But nothing ever really happens, and the movie doesn't really take off. It was a rather anti-climatic viewing experience.
Writers Pancake Zarcilla and Paris Zarcilla didn't impress me with this 2023 movie. And it is a movie that will just quietly fade into oblivion and obscurity, because this is not a movie that will grace my screen a second time.
It was not because of the acting performances, not at all. Because the acting performances in the movie were good, and they definitely had some good actresses and actors on the cast list. I wasn't familiar with leading actress Max Eigenmann (playing Joy), but she really carried the movie quite nicely. And it certainly was nice to see actor David Hayman on the screen in his particular role and character.
"Raging Grace" is more of a thriller mystery than a horror movie. But calling it a thriller is actually stretching it a bit as well.
My rating of "Raging Grace" lands on a very generous four out of ten stars.