Since my wife bought me an Amazon Fire Stick for Christmas I have become an addict of Netflix and Prime Videos. I am retired and on some days have watched as many as five films. To date I have watched 247 films, all listed and graded (sad, I know, but it saves wasting time watching ones I've already seen!).
I always read some of the IMDb reviews on every film I watch (after the event) to get a feel for how my rating compares to the average user. Usually, I tend to score slightly above the published rating. But not in this case!
What I find amazing about the reviews of this film is just how succinct they all (6) are and the sentimentality of them is almost nauseating. On every other film I've watched there are many reviews that are almost dissertations and very few of just two or three lines.
I have never previously posted a review because I've never considered them to serve much value. No matter how good a film's reviews are there are always numerous reviewers who love to slate it, and vice versa, just to be different it seems. Everything possible has already usually been said (often replicated many times ad nauseam). So one extra review from me isn't going to make any difference.
The 8.2 rating for this film caught me totally by surprise. After 20 minutes viewing I had to pause the film to go and check the online ratings to verify I was watching the right film. I then trusted that the film had to get better but that was not to be.
I am no film critic but this has to go down as possibly the worst film I have ever seen (The Human Centipede apart!). Everything about it was third rate; the plot, the dialogue, the sets, the acting....everything was sooo bad.
The girlfriend was pretty frightening, the two 'best friends' were completely insincere, and as for the two children, well, cardboard cutouts would have been more believable. As for the girl's continuous mobile photo shooting, I would have shoved that mobile somewhere else! The corny piano playing soundtrack was also pretty annoying.
There was a complete lack of background extras. There were no other customers in the cafe scene and no one appeared out on the streets, what little outside footage we saw. I was looking forward to witnessing the congregation in the church scene but alas there was no set at all for that. Even the paramedics in the penultimate scene turned out to be just the siren. And no funeral scene?
However, at the end of the movie everyone turned to God and all was saved. Sorry, I do not mean to offend by being blasphemous, but really? Everything about this film was phoney.........how about those reviews?
I always read some of the IMDb reviews on every film I watch (after the event) to get a feel for how my rating compares to the average user. Usually, I tend to score slightly above the published rating. But not in this case!
What I find amazing about the reviews of this film is just how succinct they all (6) are and the sentimentality of them is almost nauseating. On every other film I've watched there are many reviews that are almost dissertations and very few of just two or three lines.
I have never previously posted a review because I've never considered them to serve much value. No matter how good a film's reviews are there are always numerous reviewers who love to slate it, and vice versa, just to be different it seems. Everything possible has already usually been said (often replicated many times ad nauseam). So one extra review from me isn't going to make any difference.
The 8.2 rating for this film caught me totally by surprise. After 20 minutes viewing I had to pause the film to go and check the online ratings to verify I was watching the right film. I then trusted that the film had to get better but that was not to be.
I am no film critic but this has to go down as possibly the worst film I have ever seen (The Human Centipede apart!). Everything about it was third rate; the plot, the dialogue, the sets, the acting....everything was sooo bad.
The girlfriend was pretty frightening, the two 'best friends' were completely insincere, and as for the two children, well, cardboard cutouts would have been more believable. As for the girl's continuous mobile photo shooting, I would have shoved that mobile somewhere else! The corny piano playing soundtrack was also pretty annoying.
There was a complete lack of background extras. There were no other customers in the cafe scene and no one appeared out on the streets, what little outside footage we saw. I was looking forward to witnessing the congregation in the church scene but alas there was no set at all for that. Even the paramedics in the penultimate scene turned out to be just the siren. And no funeral scene?
However, at the end of the movie everyone turned to God and all was saved. Sorry, I do not mean to offend by being blasphemous, but really? Everything about this film was phoney.........how about those reviews?