Margaux

It's good looking (for the most part, the CGI is trash) and well acted and I am ecstatic to see two Black female leads in a sci-fi horror. I'm sure, despite the actual problems this movie has, this qualifies it as "wOkE" and may immediately lead to bad reviews from certain people. But yeah, the actual issue is nothing....and I mean nothing....about this movie makes sense. First of all, it isn't a smarthouse. Ihas what can only be described as superpowers? How? Never explained. What's the white goo everywhere? Never explained. Why aren't the authorities at least 'concerned' about a house no one ever returns from? Never explained. Who built the house? Never explained. The house's motive? Explained but nonsensical. This was bad and I'm only giving three stars for the positive reasons I stated.

This would have been better if they didn't include CGI/VFX robot arms and white liquid. It would have made the movie more realistic and more fun to watch. With the ridiculous robot arms it was just distracting because they were just poorly done and made the whole thing seem silly instead of funny.

The characters also didn't even react much to freaking CLONES in front of them at the beginning of the movie. How can you just dismiss that and continue partying? I know some of them were stoned, but not all of them. They just giggled and continued talking like nothing fantastic happened. I know it's supposed to be a horror-comedy movie, but they should have put a bit more effort to make it less ridiculous.

Wooden cast of young nobodies with typical stereotypical set of boring personalities, the stoner, the jock, the nerd, the nasty girl you know the formula, lame and boring social media people. Don't insult your own intelligence and save precious time of your life that you will not get back. This is total garbage, watching paint dry is more entertaining than Margaux and the sfx are so cheap and nasty a giant curtain used to make the water room look futuristic is just laughable. CGI from the 80's cracked me up think Terminator Liquid Metal guy. Possibly my biggest mistake this decade was to watch part of this.

A litany of putrefied cinematic sins, sloppily contained in a thin polymer skin:

• Inane story
• Cardboard acting
• Self indulgent slo-mo interstitial sequence
• Infuriating dialogue
• Terrible effects
• Anachronistic technology with no explanation
• Strange scoring choices
• Deranged casting/geriatric 20-somethings
• Technobabble
• Non-existent cast chemistry
• Molecule-thin disposable stereotyped characters
• Redundant plot devices
• Inconsistent character behaviours
• Painfully unrewarding predictability
• Trying sooo hard for that 'R', not deserving it

Lawnmower man eat your heart out (this filmgives instructions).

As I had the opportunity to watch the 2022 horror / thriller "Margaux", of course I opted to do so. Sure, I had not even heard about this movie from writers Chris Beyrooty, Chris Sivertson and Nick Waters prior to watching it. But I found the synopsis to be alluring.

And now having watched it, I have to say that this movie was definitely unique. Yeah, there were parts of the storyline and script that had appeal, and the movie was watchable enough for what it turned out to be. But if you step back and look at the things that goes on throughout the movie objectively, then it just makes zero sense and the whole concept is actually not a great thing. But hey, the movie made for a semi-adequate viewing experience, so there was that.

So many things that happened throughout the movie were ludicrous, and why would someone create a house with the ability to kill people, or even have a ceiling that can slide all the way down to the floor? And so many other things just didn't make any logical sense if you think about it.

The acting in the movie was fairly good, taking into consideration the limitations imposed by the script. It was a relatively small cast ensemble, so the actors and actresses had to perform all the more convincingly to carry the movie. And they did that well enough. I was only familiar with actors Richard Harmon and Lochlyn Munro.

Visually then "Margaux" was enjoyable enough. The special effects in the movie were good and helped to distract from the ludicrous concept holes of the storyline.

"Margaux" is the type of movie that you watch once, then shelf it and never return to it a second time.

My rating of director Steven C. Miller's 2022 movie "Margaux" lands on a bland five out of ten stars.