Diddly day. That was a boring hour and a half. Last few weeks I have been watching mostly horror movies and I have come to this conclusion : anything goes nowadays as a horror movie if it shows severed heads. As does this stupid flick.
First of all, the acting consists basically of stereotypes and maneuvers. There's nothing interesting in any of the characters, they are just plain dull people. Then there is the museum. It's like some weird hybrid of Fort Knox and library. And there is underground sewers where homeless people live...under the fortknoxish library. And so on.
The screenplay, and particularly when things start to happen, is awful. That's because it's either dark, or you'll see just a little glimpse of the thing thats eating Gilbert's grape. But even though it sometimes is far more horrifying what you can't see, in this case it doesn't work because the director can't simply keep the scary atmosphere up. It's like "Ooh, look Willie - it's a severed head!" "Blaablaalbaa" "BLaablaa" "Ooh Willie, look it's my dog!" Well...I don't even start with the plot. It's just a typical monster-film plot. Something comes from somewhere and then it's time to run in fear because that something that came from somewhere is big, bad, and ugly. And then the main character somehow kills that something with some silly plan that is clever. And it's dark. And there is severed heads. And there is another one. Your little sister fell asleep in half way the movie.
Sweet lullaby
First of all, the acting consists basically of stereotypes and maneuvers. There's nothing interesting in any of the characters, they are just plain dull people. Then there is the museum. It's like some weird hybrid of Fort Knox and library. And there is underground sewers where homeless people live...under the fortknoxish library. And so on.
The screenplay, and particularly when things start to happen, is awful. That's because it's either dark, or you'll see just a little glimpse of the thing thats eating Gilbert's grape. But even though it sometimes is far more horrifying what you can't see, in this case it doesn't work because the director can't simply keep the scary atmosphere up. It's like "Ooh, look Willie - it's a severed head!" "Blaablaalbaa" "BLaablaa" "Ooh Willie, look it's my dog!" Well...I don't even start with the plot. It's just a typical monster-film plot. Something comes from somewhere and then it's time to run in fear because that something that came from somewhere is big, bad, and ugly. And then the main character somehow kills that something with some silly plan that is clever. And it's dark. And there is severed heads. And there is another one. Your little sister fell asleep in half way the movie.
Sweet lullaby