Apparently, audience are divided between liking it and otherwise. For me, personally, this directorial debut effort by Patrick Wilson is a missed opportunity at its best. I find Insidious 5 to be rather boring and weak. It was at all that scary as compared to the original. It played on the cliched tropes of horror movie jumpscares.
Now I know it's a completely unfair comparison to distinguish both films. But the narrative seemed to be rather convoluted throughout. I could really feel the strenuous link between Josh's and his son's, Dalton, storyline.
Yet to be perfectly fair, kudos to Patrick Wilson for helming this project. I mean, one would regard that being one of the primary characters in this franchise, Wilson would have a firm ground on what to conjure up (no pun intended) from his experience doing the first two Insiduous. Yet, the result was a mish-mash of trying to link this one to the first two. At least, Insiduous: Chapter Two felt consistent enough for audiences to appreciate the sequential continuity to the events in the first movie.
But Insidious 5 felt very disjointed to say the least. And on top of that being a singer too, I guess Wilson couldn't help but performed the end credits song too. Patrick Wilson, is no doubt an excellent actor. But to perform his own rendition of the classic Shakespeare's Sister's hit could be regarded as being vain. It's as if he's doing it for his own personal vanity project.
Now I know it's a completely unfair comparison to distinguish both films. But the narrative seemed to be rather convoluted throughout. I could really feel the strenuous link between Josh's and his son's, Dalton, storyline.
Yet to be perfectly fair, kudos to Patrick Wilson for helming this project. I mean, one would regard that being one of the primary characters in this franchise, Wilson would have a firm ground on what to conjure up (no pun intended) from his experience doing the first two Insiduous. Yet, the result was a mish-mash of trying to link this one to the first two. At least, Insiduous: Chapter Two felt consistent enough for audiences to appreciate the sequential continuity to the events in the first movie.
But Insidious 5 felt very disjointed to say the least. And on top of that being a singer too, I guess Wilson couldn't help but performed the end credits song too. Patrick Wilson, is no doubt an excellent actor. But to perform his own rendition of the classic Shakespeare's Sister's hit could be regarded as being vain. It's as if he's doing it for his own personal vanity project.