Darkness Falls

I thought I was in for a good movie as this started out really well. The way the serial killers plotted out their murders to be a close to perfect crime was a great premise. The cold reality of it reminded me of "Henry: Portrait of a serial killer". Then the movie sinks faster than a rock in a lake. As soon as the detective went into "think like the killers" mode, it got stupid. Then he makes so many bad decisions that don't make sense, which ends up getting more innocent people killed. This movie could have been good, but the writer got in the way with some unplausible stupid ideas. The ending was just as bad and didn't make sense. The big emotional moment in the end was meaningless. This is a good example of how NOT to make a movie. Pure stupidity.

Darkness Falls is a decent crime thriller. There is nothing wrong with the directing, acting or screenwriting, and it's never dull or boring.

I'm not sure why all of the severely negative reviews. I enjoyed this movie. Sure, some faults, but...what the heck! It was pretty good and not a waste of my time on a late Sunday evening.

With a cast of this calibre I really can't understand why a movie would turn out this badly. I think the script and plot just wasn't strong enough. The plot seemed ridiculous, shallow and unrealistic. Maybe it was trying to be something 'different and original' but failing miserably.

The whole thing is a cringy epic fail.

Good to see the venerable Gary Cole doing his stuff again but even he fails to raise this rather pedestrian movie with overblown soundtrack and some truly dismal acting above a mediocre 4/10 and that is being generous.

If you are in Covid lockdown with nothing to do it will suffice as a wet Sunday afternoon diversion but there is nothing new here, it is a bit like an episode of CSI or any other cop show on tv.