Reviews

This movie is about a young college girl who lost her mentally ill mother. The main character Rose and her father move to a new place and they have a troubled relationship as Rose resents her father for getting more work to do when her mother got really sick. The house they moved to has a history, a girl who lived there, called Rachel, went missing and was never found.

There are a lot of problems with this movie and I'm not going to comment on the cliches because I honestly don't mind cliches as long as they are well done, which is not the case.

The movie seems to try to set the idea that Rose might have the same illness as her mother, but... It's so not convincing that a lot of the father/daughter dialogue feels dumb. Which brings us to another problem: the dialogue as a whole. There is so much exposition going on it's annoying especially since the "mistery" of the movie is so obvious since so early in the movie. I mean they did a kind of nice job in the very beginning when Rose is suspicious of Lila's father, but then they just made it all go away when Rose accused the guy in the middle of the street and for some weird reason instead of being really mad at a girl - who you just talked once - for doing that to your father, Lila explains everything to Rose, even very personal things and continues to be good friends with her. It's just so unrealistic and that pushed me right out of the movie. And it's sad to watch it after that because you can see that they are trying to make you confused about who is the person that killed Rachel when you already know ages ago. And I am a person who is AWFUL at figure this things out in movies.

Anyway, I think it could have been a nice cliche horror movie, but its incredible predictability killed it.

Season 1 (10/10): Great.

Season 2 (9/10): Great.

Season 3 (6/10): Boring. That... Manuel, Miguel... Something Prado is awful. He's just not interesting AT ALL. I didn't like Laila in season 2, but she seemed like a goddess after M. Prado. The whole storyline it's just ZzzZZZz.

Season 4 (10/10): Awesome. Great villain and dialogs, great plot twists, great season. There's not much more to say.

Season 5 (8/10): Good. I understand why so many people didn't like this season, the fact that Dexter was confused about so much and that is not something very believable considering his psychopathy. However, I love Lumen and I love the villains (which is also not a popular opinion). I was more interested in Lumen and her story than I was in Dexter's affairs and contradictions, so maybe that's why I do like the season.

Season 6 (6/10): Good. However... This one is a little tricky... I did like the characters, I did like the villain and all, I didn't mind Dexter's doubts and questions about religion and all as much as other people did. BUT, there is a major flaw in this season even for people who didn't bother by the theme: It leads NOWHERE. The only thing that does lead to something happened at the end of the last episode AND it could have happened in any other episode of any other season. The storyline has no purpose and adds nothing for the character of Dexter. I guess the best word for it is pointless.

Season 7 (8/10): I'm only giving an 8 for this one because of Isaak Sirko. I loved the guy and I think he went away waaay too soon. This season - because of Isaak - had a great potential. Good character, good story, great involvement with Dexter, great development of both of them. They could've explored these two and made season 7 as great as the first or fourth. But instead, they gave us Hannah... Boring, boring character (even more than Miguel Prado), dumb storyline, terrible writing... Never understood why she didn't die in Dexter's table. Sure as hell didn't understand why they ended up having sex and... liking each other? Really? Whenever she was on screen, I felt like turning off the TV or skipping the scene. Which would lead me to not watch most of the season. Sirko would have been so much more interesting to develop and to watch... It's just a frustrating season.

Season 8 (3/10): And if you didn't get enough of Hannah, here comes some more! Except this time, she is not the only thing wrong with the season. I'll try to be short here because if you watch this season the reasons of why it's terrible just pops up in front of you.

About Dexter during the season: It seems like Disney was right all along and that true love conquers all. Even cures psychopathy!

Debra: Really? After everything? After SO MUCH has happened to her, all the good development of character in every possible way... That's how she ends up? Her ending seems forced and untrue. I just don't buy it at all.

About Dexter in the last episode: So... Because of Debra's oh-so-convincing-ending he decides that he will pretend to be dead so no one else gets hurt because of him, huh?... But he stopped killing hence not making enemies, which would make it almost impossible for something bad to happen to anyone else because of him... Plus every enemy he had before is already dead... Huh... Why is that clever again? He ends up alone Wolverine-Origins style for no good reason whatsoever. Hannah is a freaking fugitive and he thinks Harrison is better off with her? I just don't see why he thought he would put them in danger if he went away with them since he wouldn't kill anymore and that was what put people in danger before.

Another major flaw is that NO ONE ELSE GETS AN ENDING. Quinn and Batista and how they were after the Morgan's death, how they handle the fact that Debra's body just went missing, if Batista ever retired after all that and kept his restaurant. How Queen got over the loss of someone he loved so much and if he was okay or I don't know, got depressed and started drinking and stuff. Just give us something! At least La Guerta got an ending. Those two were just ignored, like they weren't an important part of the story considering they were there almost always.

Plus, ever since season one those "very common huge storms" from Miami were mentioned, what? Once? And all of a sudden it's there the day Dexter was suppose to leave also giving him the best opportunity to grab his sister's bed off of the hospital without grabbing anyone's attention (Seriously?).

It's just bad.