Thin
Very. I mean, VERY thin. First, it's not very bright. It's a topic we've seen in many movies, but as far as I'm concerned, it hardly makes any sense. I don't mean to spoil it for anyone, so I'll just say it's one more variation on the "possession" topic, with everything you usually see in that context.
It's not badly acted. All protagonists are decent, especially good old "Mrs Huxtable", Phylicia Rashad, returning from the dead and as good as ever. Child actress Amanda Christine is also surprising. Photography is particularly good, it seems to me, for a Blumhouse production (usually feels like video, but not this one).
But the narrative, outside of being silly, is so simplistic, so empty. None of the characters is really explored in any way. We need to accept everything we're given without any explanation. None of the relations between the characters is articulated and the dialogues are terribly shallow. Moreover, it's boring! So boring! It takes a long, looooonnng while to get started and when it finally does, it's silly. You don't find anything redeeming either by persisting to the end.
I give a 6 for entertaining flicks, a 5 for entertaining with reservation, a 4 for a mediocre film. I'm not sure this should reach a 5. If I could, I would have rated it 4.5 or something such. But given how many absurd 8, 9 and 10s seen in the scores, here, I rated it a 4 in order to confer a slight measure of justice to that dithyrambic portraiture.
In my book, it's a relatively bad one. If not a total loss of your time, well, something close to. I wouldn't recommend it.
It's not badly acted. All protagonists are decent, especially good old "Mrs Huxtable", Phylicia Rashad, returning from the dead and as good as ever. Child actress Amanda Christine is also surprising. Photography is particularly good, it seems to me, for a Blumhouse production (usually feels like video, but not this one).
But the narrative, outside of being silly, is so simplistic, so empty. None of the characters is really explored in any way. We need to accept everything we're given without any explanation. None of the relations between the characters is articulated and the dialogues are terribly shallow. Moreover, it's boring! So boring! It takes a long, looooonnng while to get started and when it finally does, it's silly. You don't find anything redeeming either by persisting to the end.
I give a 6 for entertaining flicks, a 5 for entertaining with reservation, a 4 for a mediocre film. I'm not sure this should reach a 5. If I could, I would have rated it 4.5 or something such. But given how many absurd 8, 9 and 10s seen in the scores, here, I rated it a 4 in order to confer a slight measure of justice to that dithyrambic portraiture.
In my book, it's a relatively bad one. If not a total loss of your time, well, something close to. I wouldn't recommend it.
- danthepoetman
- Mar 21, 2023