Reviews

The gang at Broken Lizard is back at it, but this time set in medieval times in France. Their typical slapstick humor is abundant in this one, and for the most part it's fairly entertaining and will make you laugh. It was a little long for what it was though.

I wouldn't say it was their best work, as I think Super Troopers, Beerfest, and Tacoma FD are better, but it was still enjoyable to watch. I think maybe the accents got a little tiresome, but it helped that they worked in some jokes involving their accents.

I was happy to see the cast from Tacoma FD in this as I find them all a great fit with the original Broken Lizard guys.

I think the re-watchability of this one is probably not great, but I do suspect it might be the type of cult-classic movie that will get better with time. We'll have to see how it ages.

Was this really just a movie about a baby with colic and a mom with postpartum depression who needed her meds?

Ok, initially, this felt like it was gonna be a good haunter of a movie. I thought the setup was pretty good. The remote setting, haunted house and its history, creepy neighbor, husband gone all the time and a wife who's fighting psychotic episodes. They had the right pieces. They just didn't know how to put them all together.

Exactly how did the ending get resolved? I'm super confused how she made it all better. They explained nothing. I don't get it. Were the things she saw even real or were they just psychotic episodes, cuuuuz things magically got better when she went back on her meds. What's with the pigs? What's with the other kids that nobody knew about? What's with the flies?

This was easily one of the worst movies I've seen in years. I almost turned it off 3 separate times but felt compelled to see it through in the hopes it ended in some kind of magical way that made it all worth watching. Should've listened to my gut.

Sitting through this actually made me angry that I actually decided to keep sitting through it. I pretty much hated this movie. I'll give you the highlight reel.

• The two main actors are robots. Zero emotion, almost zero dialogue. The most BORING characters in any movie ever made.

• 2 hours felt like 4 hours.

• Most of the dialogue is like when you walk into a room with other people in mid-conversation and you THINK you know what they're talking about but you missed all the really important details to REALLY know. For the first half hour, 45 minutes, you find yourself thinking, "why the hell am I even watching this movie? What's even going on?"

• Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris are both great actors, but I'm sorry... they both only have like 20 words of dialogue in this and I was only able to understand about 5 of those words from Sean Harris. Good grief, man... clear your throat or speak up.

• The constant synthesizer swells in the background droning on were way overkill and made me turn the volume down multiple times.

• The "fluttering dragonfly wings" sound effect is the second worst sound I've ever heard in a movie.... the first worst is...

• The high pitched ear-ringing tinnitus actually made me mute the volume. It literally made me angry at the movie... and they did this more than once.

The plot does come together late in the movie when you finally start to understand what's happening, but it takes a really long time to get there and when it does, it's not worth it. You'll find yourself wondering why you just wasted 2 hours.

Look, let's be somewhat reasonable. This show wasn't trash and it wasn't the best show ever made. I put it a little better than average. I loved "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Haunting of Bly Manor". The first few episodes in this show gave me those vibes, but where those shows capitalized at the conclusion, this one didn't.

I thought it was well acted. The husband is impulsive and confrontational, which represents a lot of people in this world. While his actions seemed far-fetched, I'd say they were plausible for anyone being pushed to their limits. The wife, for good reason, is defensive and suspicious of his actions. The daughter is bratty, immature and dumb... or in other words, a teenage girl.

The plot was basically a non-stop creep show. I couldn't trust a single other character in this show. Every single other person is portrayed as a friggen weirdo except for the main family. Once you think you've got it figured out, the story changes and you're left guessing again, which kept it interesting for me. Much of the dialogue and confrontations seemed a bit melodramatic, but hey, that's Hollywood for you I guess. I wouldn't say there were plot "holes" like others have said, but there are definitely things they left unresolved.

I will say the ending left me feeling unsatisfied, but if this is based on a true story, then I suppose it had to go that way.

I'm giving it a 6 simply because of the way it ended. If it had a stronger ending, I'd probably give it an 8.

First, this is similar to "Annihilation (2018)" and "Prospect (2018)" in that they're slow-moving sci-fi thrillers. So if you liked those, you'll probably like this.

I went into this knowing absolutely nothing about this movie and came out of it pleasantly surprised. I watch a lot of movies while I work, so more often than not, I'm disappointed in movies (because most are just horrible). This one stands out as one of the better new ones I've watched this year.

This is a slow-paced sci-fi thriller. Emphasize "slow", but not really in a bad way. The scenery was beautiful while the plot gives you just enough to nibble on periodically to keep you really interested and then hits you with an "ah ha" kind of twist that I didn't see coming. The dialogue and acting is good and I was left questioning practically everything that was happening onscreen until the twist/reveal. I did also enjoy the zoomed-in view on the theme of the movie... taking a look at just a couple of people in a remote area in one part of the country. I imagine many of these kinds of stories happened in this universe that would also be compelling.

The gore and scary stuff was pretty creepy and felt unique and clever. The lead character was somewhat unlikable, but it was her character flaws that played a vital role at the end of the movie, so the way she is was intentional.

Personally, I love the way it ended. The plot gave us plenty reasons it would end the way it did, and yet I somehow I still believed throughout the movie that it wouldn't end that way.... and when it was over, I still felt just as satisfied. Was worth my time.

Sequel? Sequel?

Netflix literally sorted this in the "horror" genre.... which makes absolutely zero sense after watching it. Very misleading, especially since I was at LEAST expecting a thriller, or a mystery... something in the vein of "What Lies Beneath" from the year 2000... or "Haunting of Bly Manor" kind of stuff. Boy oh boy, what a letdown this movie was for what I was expecting. Sorta feels like they miscategorized the genre on purpose because they knew this movie was total BLAH and they needed to trick people into watching it. Very disappointed with the story.

Can we just point out that a ghost story (with very little ghost elements) centered around an iPhone in the early 2000's is just weird, too? It was just super bizarre and I found that it all the moving pieces just didn't mesh well together.

The acting wasn't bad I suppose, but the narrating basically removes any sense of mystery they were going for. Honestly, the narrating could be removed and I bet it would make the movie better.

Overall it was bland and left me uninterested.

The concept was good and it started off pretty intriguing but the plot felt messy to me in acts 2 and 3. I felt pretty unengaged throughout and completely unattached to any of the characters. By the time I was 2/3rds through the movie, it felt like I had been watching it for 4 hours and I was actively wishing for it to be over, and once it finally was, I felt pretty unsatisfied with the ending.

Also, this is a foreign film with overdubs, but some of the characters speak English in it, which aren't dubbed over... so conversations in the movie consisted of one actor actually talking and another with a cheesy voice-over... and I didn't think it worked.

I give it a 4 because the beginning started off good, but the rest of it wasn't.

A lot of these reviews give this a poor rating because they loathed the main character and the plot is too unbelievable.

Well, A) I HAAAATED the main character as well and I actively rooted for a slow and painful demise for her, but I think that was the point. Don't get me wrong, this movie pissed me off, haha, but it's kind of cool when a movie can do that to your emotions. B) The plot is unbelievable but has JUUUUST enough details in it that make it seem plausible at least on some level, so I'm ok with it. It's a movie! Nobody seems to care that the Jurassic Park is too unrealistic.

All in all, interesting movie, will definitely piss you off, but if you're like me, it'll hold your attention to see where the story goes.

This movie wasn't great, but it has good visual effects.. that's for sure.

The story was hard to get on board with and the characters were hard to like. There's little to no character development or backstory and not much plot setup, so you're not attached to any of the characters and you're not invested in the mission they're going on. Scenes jump around too much and felt scatterbrained at times. The jokes consistently missed for me. The sound track didn't work for me either. The gore and the foul language were excessive and felt more forced than elements to complement the story. It's like a Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Boys, so you have this movie being some weird kind of hybrid of the two, with aliens and bright colors, trying to tell jokes while still looking all dark and grungy, swearing and blowing people's heads off. It just didn't work for me.

The good is it has really amazing visual effects and color grading... and it had good fight sequences.