Review of The Boy Behind the Door

(Spoilers) Starts good. Tense. Terrifying. Kids are good actors, easily relatable. I thought I was in for a scary ride.... but it quickly descends into tropreville The kid Bobby is smart enough to trick the kidnapper and manage to handcuff her, but not smart enough to grab the gun or at least kick it away? And neither is smart enough to later grab the axe? Yeah, they're kids, but c'mon! That's the most infuriating thing about the film. I get that they are kids in a terrifying situaiton. But the stupid stuff is just over the top and it gets to be too much. Why not write them smarter but give them more difficult and credible obstacles? And why can't screenwriters do a little research on police procedure before they put ink to paper? The kids being stupid because they're scared is one thing, but cops have training in these situations... not to mention the fact that when a cop is unresponsive after arriving at a distress call, he isn't just forgotten. Oh, and if cops find a kid with a gunshot wound, they call for paramedics. They don't just put him in the cruiser to take him home. WTF? ... There are a few clever things... like the kidnapper being a woman for a change... and the MAGA sticker on the pedos car is highly appropriate. Should have been a Q sticker. ;-) Doesn't really deserve this long review but I really hate when films start good then turns stupid. This could have been an easy seven with a better writing and less tropy tricks trying to up the scares.