danthepoetman

Very. I mean, VERY thin. First, it's not very bright. It's a topic we've seen in many movies, but as far as I'm concerned, it hardly makes any sense. I don't mean to spoil it for anyone, so I'll just say it's one more variation on the "possession" topic, with everything you usually see in that context.

It's not badly acted. All protagonists are decent, especially good old "Mrs Huxtable", Phylicia Rashad, returning from the dead and as good as ever. Child actress Amanda Christine is also surprising. Photography is particularly good, it seems to me, for a Blumhouse production (usually feels like video, but not this one).

But the narrative, outside of being silly, is so simplistic, so empty. None of the characters is really explored in any way. We need to accept everything we're given without any explanation. None of the relations between the characters is articulated and the dialogues are terribly shallow. Moreover, it's boring! So boring! It takes a long, looooonnng while to get started and when it finally does, it's silly. You don't find anything redeeming either by persisting to the end.

I give a 6 for entertaining flicks, a 5 for entertaining with reservation, a 4 for a mediocre film. I'm not sure this should reach a 5. If I could, I would have rated it 4.5 or something such. But given how many absurd 8, 9 and 10s seen in the scores, here, I rated it a 4 in order to confer a slight measure of justice to that dithyrambic portraiture.

In my book, it's a relatively bad one. If not a total loss of your time, well, something close to. I wouldn't recommend it.

It's a small movie, for sure. But I really liked it. The nicest aspect is its originality. You haven't seen this story before, it's not a rehashing of two dozen movies you've seen before. It can be read as a metaphor of human pain and loss, but you are trapped by the narrative from start to finish. It's a nice small flick!

At the moment I'm writing this review, it is scored 5.4. It pretty much reflect what it does worth. I personally put a solid 6 on it. I found it entertaining and fun. Don't think you'll get great special effects, here, people flying all over the place, explosions, explicit gore, Godzilla-like creatures crushing cities, etc. Yet, it's well shot, the photography is nice with deep colors, it is well played through and through, and at the risk of revealing too much, you have a decent mix of heartfelt moments and action. A very decent film.

For reference, I score 6 for entertaining; 5 for entertaining with reservations; 7 for VERY entertaining movies.