OK, I gave it a few hours before I posted this because I thought I might have missed something. Maybe it is like Pulp Fiction where it seems like a disjointed mess, but when someone tells you the key suddenly it slots together and makes sense. But it isn't. It is just a confused mess.
It does homage some 80's movie styling, right from the opening credits there is a hint of something between Halloween and the Wraith. The music is good.
But then the holes are huge. The story doesn't make sense! He turns up and they just take him in. Once the daughter figures out he is a fake everyone just ignores it. It turns out he is 'just' some random psychopath but part of his problem is that he kills anyone that knows who he is? Half a dozen trained soldiers turn up but are completely incompetent to the point that my girlfriend was complaining about their lack of basic soldiering skills.
And what was with the weird tilting guns when turning corners thing that they were all doing?
And of course he survives at the end and none of them can count to three when removing the bodies? Really?!
It does homage some 80's movie styling, right from the opening credits there is a hint of something between Halloween and the Wraith. The music is good.
But then the holes are huge. The story doesn't make sense! He turns up and they just take him in. Once the daughter figures out he is a fake everyone just ignores it. It turns out he is 'just' some random psychopath but part of his problem is that he kills anyone that knows who he is? Half a dozen trained soldiers turn up but are completely incompetent to the point that my girlfriend was complaining about their lack of basic soldiering skills.
And what was with the weird tilting guns when turning corners thing that they were all doing?
And of course he survives at the end and none of them can count to three when removing the bodies? Really?!