A Sacrifice

This movie is 96 % talking....not character development talking, not building a plotline talking, just talking. Randomly. There are many conversations that goes no where and does not enhances the story.

Motivation: The movie never establishes the motivations to make people do what they do. They make decisions to satisfy the story without letting us know why they are making that decision.

Direction/Acting...in the few scenes that do contain some level of drama, the actors overact the scene which means yelling, gesturing loudly and walking out of rooms.

Lastly...boring. The first 20 minutes did little to pique my interest and even make me want to finish the movie. I should have gone with that instinct and saves myself 90 minutes of my life.

Well I just got done watching this movie and I feel like I've seen this movie before because I have seen this movie before.

Positives for A Sacrifice (2024): The performances from Sadie Sink and Eric Bana are pretty good for the most part. I did have some investment in what was happening in the story. And that's about it for positives.

Negatives for A Sacrifice (2024): Like I said before, this is a movie and a premise that I've seen many times before and it's plays out the exact same way as those other movies. It also feels like this movie could've been directed by anyone and yet it was directed by Jordan Scott, the daughter of legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott.

Overall, A Sacrifice (2024) is as generic as these cult thriller movie can get and nothing new is brought to the table.

Most boring monotone movie in every aspect from script,dialog,cinematography,locations & attire.

Sadie may of did well in Stranger Things however,based on this & other performances I'm really not a fan.

Although the rest of the cast,even their acting was average to poor.

This topic of cults is beyond clichéd & has been done,so much better in the past.

I guess because it took place internationally it apparently was more unique,they could of used more locations or something.

Still got over 100 characters to go & frankly,there isn't anything else that is worth talking about.

Finally.. Watch is you need sleep!

Eric Bana and Sadie Sink sulk their way through Berlin Nobody, a drab cult thriller given the far less tantalizing title "A Sacrifice" for North American distribution. Bana is an American professor in Berlin working on a complicated thesis about cult mindset and dangerous groupthink, unaware that his teenage daughter (Sink) is slowly orbiting the very same deadly cult via a German boy (Jonas Dasser) she's started seeing. Bana is a brilliant actor who doesn't always choose the best scripts and this is unfortunately one of them, Stranger Things' talented Sink also falling into the same trap. They try to do honest character work but the writing lets them down hard, attempting some complex thematics regarding the cut angle that get left completely open ended like they just gave up in fully exploring their ideas and let the credits roll. Skip.

Ultimately. The Story line here is how people get sucked into CULTS. Sophie Rois plays HILDA a Cult Leader in Berlin who uses the Environmental World coming to an End Card to recruit new members. She gives an Jim Jonesian performance, scared me almost as much as the Wicked Witch of the West from THE WIZARD OF OZ.

Father Daughter Ben and Mazzy are the victims set up by Martin and Nina. The Movies climax is a little far fetched but still effective. The Berlin setting and psychological underground Music scene are grinding. Directed by Jordan Scott of the SCOTT Family has the Closed Caption run thru out so you can read along too as in German some scenes. If you want to Experience the Cult sacrifices I recommend going to See for Yourself, but stay away from the Cyanide tablets and Magic Mushrooms on the way.. I am Fan of Eric Bana (The Dry) and really impressed with Sadie Sink from (The Whale) she shines.