nickwim-983-59227

Its a shame, i wanted critics to be wrong and for this to be better than expected but its actually a lot worse. My 10yr old hated it, my 17 year old thought it was rubbish and i just wanted it to end. It's a very poorly scripted movie with no real direction, no charm, very few jokes that work and Robert Downey Junior looks high most of the time. What's really odd though is the sound mix. It's obvious his lines were dubbed after but spacially it's really distracting like his words come from all around rather than his mouth. If you see it you'll hear what i mean. Real shame this movie as a few minutes in i knew it was going to be bad and i should have just got up and left. Makes me want to see the original Dr Dolittle with Rex Harrison. That was pretty bad but compared to this it was a masterpiece.

I thought this would be a low budget but perhaps passable 1h20 mins. How wrong I was. So much talking about nothing to fill time and a few shots of a big woodlouse. I kid you not. I like bad movies but this was awful x 100. Watch The Thing. Either the original or the prequel.. Don't be fooled by the movie synopsis or cover art. This is baaaaaad. And cheap. And I so wanted just to see a bad movie tonight not a horrificly awful one.

Now i like Ray Harryhausen films using old-hat stop motion animation so whilst films don't need ultra brilliant digital effects and retro has its place, there is a fine line between retro and pants. This movie has effects that are pants, so much so that the film is ruined. Werewolf masks looking like budget store Halloween dress up have no place in 2018 and frankly made what was otherwise an OK film a painful experience to watch. OK action scenes, OK but contrived plot, OK cast. Its all serviceable but those wolf effects... Man what on earth was the director thinking allowing that nonsense on screen. Sorry to all those involved with the movie but it was embarrassing to look at those cheap masks and impossible to enjoy the film.