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Nosferatu (2024), directed by Robert Eggers, is an absolute disaster masquerading as a "cinematic masterpiece." This film is nothing more than a chaotic, self-indulgent fever dream that butchers the legacy of its predecessors. Instead of atmospheric horror, we get an incoherent, slow-moving mess filled with unnecessary grotesque imagery that feels more like shock value than storytelling.

The dialogue is downright awful, with characters spouting lines that feel like they were written by someone with an IQ of 80. Instead of intelligent, haunting exchanges, we get clunky, unnatural conversations that pull you right out of the movie. There's no nuance, no subtlety-just a painful attempt at "artsy" horror that falls flat.

Visually, the film tries so hard to be a dark, gothic masterpiece, but it ends up looking like a try-hard, pretentious student film. Every shot is either too dark to see what's happening or so drenched in heavy-handed symbolism that it becomes laughable. Eggers seems more interested in making an aesthetic statement than telling a compelling story.

And let's talk about the pacing-painfully slow and completely lacking in tension. Instead of dread building over time, the movie drags with unnecessary scenes that serve no purpose other than to make you wish it would end already. What's supposed to be eerie and unsettling just comes off as dull and self-indulgent.

Overall, Nosferatu (2024) is a pompous, joyless mess that fails in every way possible. It lacks scares, intelligence, and any real reason to exist. If you want true horror, stick to something else-this one is best left forgotten.

One good actor can not produce a movie, when nothing else is there to add. Small talks may not always contribute to the atmosphere, expressly when randomly thrown into the soup. And a crude story remains just a sketch, whatever you try to do with it. And this is the case with this movie. A huge potential wasted in a mediocre script, with barely convincing characters and a totally flat course. No music, nor the hurricane, could add to the lack of vibration in this scenario. This is a "Gran Torino" with a silly fake action movie beside. Denzel, who is a great actor and is playing excellent here too, becomes almost ridiculous trying to give some substance to nothing. Total disappointment, and an unreal over-rating...

Almost nothing to comment, it's like a bad joke, it leaves you with a bad taste and an awkward feeling. Oh, yes, if something to note, the script is really retarded. It ends into be a stupid thriller based on some kind of strange semi-moral lessons to be learned. It fails anyhow to be credible because of a really unbelievable bad plot development. It starts quite good and has some succeeded moments in the beginning. This ends really soon and start being really forced and artificial into narration. One wife overwhelmed by artist life rigors and kid's related responsibilities is urged "to the beach" for the weekend, leaving behind a devoted husband, a busy architect and a sexually frustrated 43 years old guy. Some maniacal girls pop up to his door, get invited inside and force him into having sex with. Then they decide to punish the unfaithful husband and presumed pedophile father. This part is really mental, but this is not the worst aspect. It is really not credible. Has nothing in common with real human behavior in the context. The end is hilarious, even more than the strange guy popping in at a point in time just to get killed for some wrongly added "tension". I could watch sometime a bad movie (kind of third category), if it at least deliver the normal dose of assumed absurd. This is a bad movie delivering half dose of stupid happening. Avoid!