Reviews

Massive apologies for such a review as this one... (as it is short and hardly informative)

This movie... all I have to say is... this. Is. The best. Movie. Anyone. Could possibly EVER. Watch.

So many genres were captured in this movie and basically EVERYTHING tied up so well.

I watched this movie today with a couple of friends. Halfway through the movie, a friend guessed the outcome of the tying together and was right... but, it requires mass intelligence of astronomy science and/or theorems of time and dimensions and/or space.

I cannot say anymore about this masterpiece... except:

Watch it. If you refuse to do so, you'll be missing the ride of your life.

Okay...so. Normally when you see a PG-13 horror movie come out, it's either going to totally suck, or rock. This movie was actually, in the middle. It did not suck and it did not rock. *It was basically a mixture of Insidious and Final Destination.* The scares in the movie were typically those corny jump-scares, but I have to say, they weren't bad. (Or really that good, either.) The thing about PG-13 horror movies is that they aren't really that scary at all. This movie was alright, I wouldn't say scary, but it would be enough to scare a little kid because of the loud noises and scary images. The story is okay. It kind of gets better and worse and better and worse. In the beginning, the story is declining, getting worse and worse, because of all the cliché and disappointing climaxes. Then, it sort of gets better... and then back down to really bad. Then, in the second half of the movie, it starts to get really, really, intense and actually good. When you think it's over, it isn't. But when it is over, you wouldn't think that was the end. The acting was.. okay? In the beginning the acting totally STANK! I mean, it was really fake. But it got better and better as the movie progressed. The main character, Laine (Olivia Cooke) did an okay job of acting. She was the type in the movie that was sort of dumb, but in the end turned out to be a bit clever. All the things in the movie that happen are mostly things that you'd expect to happen. The special effects really were disappointing, when the monster/entity (not revealing any more than that) is shown, WOW are the effects SO FAKE.

Lastly, don't let reviews change your mind about a movie. They are simply opinions. Just because this movie has under average ratings doesn't mean that you will automatically think this movie will and always will stink. Don't always look at the negative sides of a movie. :) And also, be careful. On my trip for watching this movie, there was a young delinquent cracking jokes to his "encouraging" friends, disrupting the full experience, so I may have missed some good parts of the movie.

When many people saw this movie coming to theaters, they probably thought it was totally going to suck, because the trailer looked horrible and it was another one of "those exorcist movies." The expectations for this movie weren't high at all. I can't believe that more people are going to see "The Purge: Anarchy" when they all knew that the first one had horrible execution. (In many observers' opinions)

First of all, while describing this movie, I would like to say that I don't think this is really horror. It IS based on a true story, and it has lots of freaky moments, but the way they made the story progress was in a way as if this was a crime scene. (It technically is though)

Second of all, here are some things I'd like to point out for those who want to watch this movie themselves. (Don't worry, there's not enough information for these to be considered spoilers.)

~ - The main scares are based off of jump-scares. As you saw in the trailer (Probably), the actor looks under his daughter's bed, then looks in the mirror and there is a man leaning over his daughter; then turns around to the non-reflection area and BAM, it's gone. Kind of corny, and unoriginal.

~ + Other than jump-scares, there is creepy stuff going on. You can also see some of this stuff in the trailer as well, like a stuffed animal rolling off a shelf by itself and making a noise.

~ - In the beginning, specific details are useless which kind of confuses some people because they are trying to figure out the main problem with unnecessary details.

~ + The exorcism scene in this movie is absolutely epic.

So, there you have it. I thought it was an excellent movie myself. Don't always judge a movie by its trailer, though it's like a first impression, which is the director/producer's fault for making a lame trailer. You probably won't be disappointed.