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The conflict of the story and villain are finished around half of the movie.

And we're left with a 45 minute epilogue with annoying child wailings.

Looked it up since I was recommended the fight scenes, first ones not bad, but nowadays seen better. The drunk ones were more boring than expected. (in part because at that point I couldn't care less about the movie and the boring random empty slates of foreign fighters introduced at the end)

You can't expect to put the climax of your story in the middle and then expect people be interested in the now rock bottom main character beat up random characters who have no semblance of personality nor any ties to the main plot or story whatsoever.

I watched it with a couple of friends. The moment it showed and focused in the beginning with the lil sister and her drawing and showing all her drawings in her room I just thought "her drawing is gonna save the day isn't it....". To me that, the way the animatronics squinted their eyes reminding me of Fry, and the friendship happy silly moment in the middle kinda ruined it for me lol. I couldn't take it seriously and the issue is that the movie was trying to be very serious even tho it had those details and moments, so I kept saying "what is this? What is happening???" in disbelief.

The animatronics and set designs were awesome, and I get it's target audience are the young teens that like the lore (even tho it still doesn't it follow it, it's more like "inspired by it").

To me as a not big fnaf fan but I know the games and lore, but love movies and horror, I think a good fnaf movie should have either gone with two options

• Make it an isolation situation movie, like Panic Room, or Alien,... where the main character(s) would be trapped in a place with these entities and their only way to see them or track them would be through cameras or motion sensors etc. While this entities roam and hunt them from the dark and corners. Focusing on the MOOD, to recreate that sensation the games give of knowing they are coming but don't know from where and the resources demishing.

• The other option would have needed to be really ballsy and go clear with the trilogy idea, and just make the real lore in movie format. And start the first movie with the killings and end it with the animatronics coming to life and have the second one focus on them and the third one with the box trap and the fire. Because all the killings of the kids and kidnappings and backstabbing has already a lot of horror and story to tell. Instead they "showed it all" in the opening credits through the nes pixel graphics.

But if you wanna target the young fans too you probably wont be too horror and not have much violence... so... So I dunno, it was fine, not for me. At least it seemed to have a lil more care and passion than just being a "I clapped when I saw it" cashgrab. But the script was lacking.