13th Summer

I love it when you can buy into the characters so deeply and be completely invested - just to be given an unexpected twist! Loved this movie from start to finish! Had a love/hate relationship with just about every character! What a hidden gem! Bravo!! The Movie was so relatable. The music set in the background was so forbidding that it had me and my wife sitting on the edge of our seats! It is so hard not to give spoilers because you just want anyone who watches this movie to go on that same roller coaster ride of emotions that we went through hahaha. I think Ben and Vee were very well cast! Hats off to the actor who played Ben!

Couldn't break away review is a complete joke, because at less than 30 minutes in you can see where this is going and the predictability scale is off the hook. Oh and the typical cliched stupid person doing the predictably stupid stuff is front and center here.

And why is it that writers are always having women do what a normal free thinking woman would avoid at all cost? And the antagonist starts off with a creepy vibe, so much so that when the husband shows distrust, it is well warranted, yet the woman has her head in the clouds , the sand or up her patootie that she missed the Memo.

This I blame on weak AF writing as well as being plain lazy.

One last thing, the wife in this one is a total and complete Idiot, as per the script writers who can never write a strong woman with common sense n these movies.

I predicted how it would end, which was unfortunate. So many aspects of the plot and characterisation seemed unrealistic to me, leaving unanswered questions and plot holes. I genuinely got up and walked away a few times, returning minutes later, and I hadn't missed much. There was some serious overacting in parts, such as the relentless yelling to show anger, and the cliched character tropes made this hard to watch at times. I liked some of the filming and the music was good. Overall, I wouldn't say it was a complete waste of time, but I wouldn't recommend watching it either. Probably best to watch if you have run out of other options.