Villains

It is an interesting story, but the poor choices by the young couple is irritating. Overall, it's good for a brain off entertainment.

Excellent direction and brilliant acting by everyone. There are so many small scene details and the way the actors respond to them it's so good. I truly enjoyed this.

I really like Maika, everything she is in is quirky and fun (THE GUEST, was awesome). The male lead was also great, as were the "evil" couple. The acting was so on point, and everyone was incredibly likeable, I think they made the film better than it otherwise would've been!

With that said, the plot is kinda wonky, and it's nothing you haven't seen 100x it's kinda the typical, "outlaws stumble upon a dangerous abode" type film.

As much as I'm not a comedy fan really, if this was a straight up comedy, it would've been AMAZING!! But...it's actually a crime/horror/drama/comedy. I believe it tried to be so much that it never really decided what to be. The beginning was light hearted and funny, the middle was a bit odd, but tries to be serious, and the final act it gets super dark out of no where.

It's one of those movies that you're glad you saw but probably won't watch again. I liked it, I wanted to love it.

Find myself saying this fairly often, but this too would've been a fantastic TV show.

A secret-in-the-basement plot that is almost wafer-thin. Four magnetic leads and a fifth little charmer who barely talks. I guess Villains banks a little too much on its leads to keep things engaging. Sure, Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Jeffrey Donovan, and Kyra Sedgwick are all excellent but some extra character-texture would have helped. The writers do not give the antagonists-turned-protagonists enough context to believe that one of them is good at lock-picking but is dumb enough to forget the fuel levels in their escape-car or can't hotwire one. That is conveniently treated as humour instead. Also, a change-of-heart scenario isn't fleshed out well enough.

I'd have to say that the first couple of acts in Villains are incredibly better than the rest of the film, primarily owing to better-written gags. The cleverly titled film discusses the moral dilemma of bad-guys-turning-good (and vice versa) by making two extremely different couples tread that thin line separating right and wrong. Skarsgård and Monroe play a modern, quirkier, sillier version of Bonnie & Clyde while Donovan and Sedgwick enact a deadly boomer-couple - they play off of each other well. The horror in Villains is more or less restricted to some gore but it's the dark humour that mostly works.

It's got action, it's got horror, it's got romance, it's got comedy. Villains is a pretty good package, overall. I really like what was going on here. It's never boring always amusing and the story just kept evolving though out until the end. Great!