Reviews

Don't watch this move right after you eat something. The super shaky camera work could make you sick. 5 minutes into the movie I could not bear it. Just too uncomfortable.

The story line is easy and straightforward: people try to stay alive after some sort of apocalypse.

What is missing from the movie is the horror and the family dynamics. You either make the move very scary or you focus on the family and the bonding. Or make both the focus. However, this movie does not have enough either. Turns out the movie becomes boring and losing focus. So people can easily predict what's to come in the next 3 minutes.

It could be much better if they add some mysteries to the creatures. What causes the apocalypse is not that important to me.

The mother is an enabler who enables and admires what the father has been doing. The father is a total narcissist who only thinks of what is right and wrong in his own ideal world. He is very manipulative. The son is a follower who almost never questions. The daughter possibly is the only likable character. The two agents and cops simply reinforces what the father stands against. Pretty much everything they do and how they behave make the parents look good and exemplars to the children.

Lots of people do not like the daughter. But the character is the most realistic. Imagine you being in her position and you were 15, wouldn't you ask why? Wouldn't you wonder I lives like a fugitive on the run while my friends are learning and enjoying their 15 which everyone can only enjoy one time of their life time.

I hate the mother so much. She is so fake. Wherever she feels bad about not telling the truth to the kids, he changes her mind immediate after he talks to her and her guilt just disappears into thin air. She looks at him as if he is the savior of the world with a face looking like oh yeah let's rock and roll and shutter the world.

Especially when the father asked her "are we not good parents?" Well no you are not.

People are struggling with giving no reason why they are on the run. Well if you shift your attention from why to how to move on then you will feel better about the show. But yeah it is still not a good way of presenting the show.

Not scary at all. Not at all.

Most Thai horror/ scary movies are either scary as hell or scary and fun at the same time.

This one is not scary nor hilarious.

The only good thing about this movie is the main actor because he is handsome and cute.

The storyline is plain, the acting is normal to low, the plot is predictable. The sound effect is too loud and I have to adjust the volume constantly which is very annoying but not scary.

No visual effect pretty much.

The ghost is a girl with smoky makeup. The possessed one just talks through a voice transformer. The ghost group is just a group of teenagers flying. The blood is so fake.

The series opens with some mystery about a detective and his past. That sounds cliche but it's what it is. I guess the focus is on the detective but we can also see how things are handles in Europe. The story also is kinda predictable. It has tension, suspension, action and hatred.

The problem is not about the story and how it is told. The really issue is how they shot the scenes. I tried to love this series but the scenes are so broken and unsteady.

Sometimes I can't even focus on one item in the scene.

The acting may not be the best but the way they shot the series is really bad, worst.

Normally I don't watch series with dub but I would rather listen to dub than watching. It's a torture.

I don't understand why they want Regan's mom to be part of this. What's her role in this? Just a connection to the former? Her part is completely not necessary. A phone call to her asking for suggestion would be suffice enough.

Good part stats at the last 30 minutes. It doesn't mean the rest is not important but it means they didn't do a good job on the first 1+ hours.

The moves opens with a slightly odd interaction between a father and his daughter. Very soon it goes to the missing of two girls. Up to this point they just do a mediocre job.

The return of the two girls should be the first climax. No not at all. The girl has an episode in the church; it should be very dramatic. No at all. Just like the trailor. The director and the writers screw it up making what it supposed to be very disturbing and even graphic extremely insipid. Just dull.

It is just one of many mistakes they make.

Another example of they screwing up the play is the conflicts between believers and nonbelievers. The two families stand for one of each but the conflict is not there. They should cut off the Regan's mom's scene and use the time for conflicts between the two families or some demonic activities in the believer's home.

There's definitely something new in this move that was not included in the previous pieces. For instance, the woodoo woman.

It's probably the slowest alien scifi I've ever watched. Lots of irrelevant things fills up the first three episodes.

Also, they pay too much attention to personal things to the extend that it is not a scifi but more of a drama.

I feel like it could have been better but the director put the focus on something else than the "invasion".

Leaving mysterious and inexplicable crumbles for the audience is one of the common ways to make people hooked. But the crumbles of each story line in each episodes is too trivial, scattered and overwhelmed by the life of the characters. For instance, episode 2 spent 5 minutes on the soldiers life and it has nothing to do with the development of the plots. Again, episode 2 spent another 6 minutes on school bullies but it does not influence how the plots develop. Removing these meaningless clips does not really change how the audience perceive these characters nor how the audience feel when the invasion happens.

They should finish the story line one after another until there is a convergence where all the story lines meet.

I spent more than 20 minutes watching three people talking and arguing and I just can't see where the conversation would take me to. The topic is about AI. And even though they appear excited but I am not.

Yeah what they are talking about seems interesting and exciting potentially but hello !? This supposed to be a movie not a podcast.

There is no such a thing of bad acting because there is no acting. Of course if you think hand gesture that you have daily counts toward acting then there's some acting.

Also there is no sound/music neither. Boring on top of boring.

For the first time I found the IMDb rating so far off.

This movie opens with a very unique way that raises the audience's interests and questions.

Don't skip the first half or simply jump to the last part of the movie, for you will lose lots of crumbles hidden inside the conversation. Even as small and childish as a children's game.

To me it has two climaxes. The first one is how the nurse saves the girl by giving her a thought about a girl who hasn't done anything wrong. Actually I think the girl leads her to this idea even though the nurse doesn't sound like/act like she does not know the new name. The second climax is when the maid reads the newspaper. Basically it's an accusation of the society and the church, be it ancient or present.

Don't think of it as a cult. Don't ignore the power of religion and beliefs.

The bridge between the two climaxes is the moment when the sister patches the nurse up and asks her about a vision that the sister saw. Look closely at the sister. That's great acting; she formulates the sentences in a way that you know she knows the truth but she can't say it out loud.

The movie ends where and how it begins. Really nice and rounded.

By no means this movie is mediocre. It is dark, mythical, barbaric and symbolic. It's dark because of the theme. Mythical because of its culture and faith. Barbaric because of the era. Symbolic is something man made. Many elements are very metaphorically symbolic. The sword taken from the skeleton. He said " I will hide you well, night blade." The blade is a symbol of his fate and determination. "Night blade" on the other hand, could literally mean the sword can only be used at night which echoes how he got it. But also it could metaphorically mean a weapon murdering his uncle. Let along with the ravens in the chamber when he is hang from the ceiling. If vengeance is the only thing you aim at, you miss a good show.

The script is good. The shooting is nice and smooth. Some long shots make the scenes more engaging. In the end you may want to ask: do we create our future or do we just walk on the path of fate set by gods.

In general it's not too bad. I don't understand the hate. There's lots on tensions about family, love and humanity. Yes the mother has some wired facial expressions, especially in the beginning. Yes the father is incredibly naive and trying to take some sense into the old people, which is somewhat unbelievably stupid. The nurse creates another layer of tension and makes it more watchable.

And there is another cliche: a young boy with ansthma and it happens when the inhaler is gone.

It's not a zombie move. Do not simply replace zombies with old people; zombies do not plot but the old people do; zombies do not scheme but the old people do; zombies don't walk in daylight ur the old people do.

And music has a strange healing power. AGAIN. Yes the killer just hear you sing; it's not logical and that's the worst part of the movie.

The movie is really not bad; if you put it in a bigger picture, it tries to reflect on several in-progress issues: the aging society, the necessity of euthanasia, the retirement and life, ect.

Some people say the story line is predictable. Well I think not. It becomes a bit predictable after 2/3 of the move.

There are a few leads leading you to believe what they want you to believe and those leads are very much real. It is not until 3/4 of the movie you realize what happened and what caused whatever is happening.

The ending is kinda predictable. Or not refreshing and boring I would say. But I think the ending can be some kind of beginning, like 24 Billy.

Naomi's acting is great, as usual. One thing does not fall into the lines is the father. He literally has two seconds of scenes. Just like "hey you have the kids not my problem anymore".

It's more than 7 but lower than 8.

A lot of relatively unrelated noncontributing scenes can be cut off. With or without them the creepiness is not affected. You just need the first 20 minutes for background setting and skip to the last one hour. What happens in between is not weird and terrifying.

It is closer to a documentary rather than a horror or thriller.

Very disappointed especially after watching heredity.

Overly naive setting makes me hard to love this series. It just reminds me of the iron fist when he first returns to NYC. A good sci-fi still needs to build on the real world. There are multiple scenes where he could have made things less chaotic and more straight-to-the-goal (such as saving someone or fixing something) but he didn't simply because he follows the good/humanity side of the heart. What's wrong with that is, on one hand, for the development of the series, it becomes so formulaic and tedious simply because how to make what would happen between now/the current to the status where he finally accepts the truth creative and eyeball catching should be the key for the popularity of the series . On the other hand, for the audience, since we all know that eventually the world will be saved, those self-exploring process is really too redundant. Even not knowing should not be the reason for stopping you from becoming stronger and fighting for survival. To simply put, he whines too much.

The theme is simple and straightforward. To some people it may be a bit boring and lack of freshness. But that's fine. What really ruins the show is the main character Justin. I don't know what's wrong with the writer and the director, but it seems that they intentionally make the character extremely unfit the social setting. They make the character so unnatural and weird for the environment as if Justin is very incapable of interaction and relationship. Who would introduce himself as a 'birth father' to a total stranger? An openly gay becomes a stammer before a cute boy? So unrealistic. Jordan Gavaris overplays the character in many ways, making almost every joke/funny scene unbearable to see. Half of the time I wonder why he portrays the role in such a dramatic way. Justin talks like a nonstop nagging 48 year old person who has a screw loose or something and talks in high pitch.

The director does not know how to tell and to organize a story.

I don't think the acting is that bad. The storyline is okay. It's not boring even though you can predict some plots. The real question is that there is barely coherent link between scenes. One scene ends and it jumps straight to a random scene. Perhaps the director wants to follow the German series DARK but did a bad job. Since it's 42 days of darkness, it's reasonable and helpful to indicate which day.

Podcast level narrators/ story telling

Even though the stories are mostly brutal but the way it unfolds diminished the violence. What's left is more of story telling and some emotional release.

If you are a detail seeker, this series won't satisfy you. But it works as a good foundation if you want to dig into the case.

The last episode "happy face killer" really bugs me. The DAs did not do their jobs well and were misled by a grandmother but later furious about her because (the DAs believed) the other death could have been stopped.

I mean, what the hell? This DA did not do his job well and still do not face the responsibility his owned.

The later-confessed killer did not appear in the first case. With or without being misled, the DA had zero chance finding the true killer.

The DA's job is to find the truth, no matter how deeply it is hidden. Clearly he thinks he did wonderfully but in fact he did not.

Wonder if he also put other innocent people behind the bar.

I am a fan of zombies and Korean movie industry has built some good reputation in this matter. BUT this series may have pulled down the reputation because this series is so bad such that I wonder if it was directed by teenagers.

Bad acting!

Good thing is that the mystery got explained very soon in the second episode (if you can go that far).

Those creepy/zombie scenes are totally predictable and common in a zombie-themed series/move so they can't be constituted as a reason to give applause to this series.

Too many scenes are not logical at all. For instance when Onju was pressed against the floor by a infected male student, what should be expected is she simply can be bitten. But no, apparently she holds the fight and get away with the zombie. But wait! One second ago she is too terrified to move and next second she fights back the zombie.

And the extinguisher can also defeat zombies?

It just a tip of iceberg showing how bad this series.

I gave 6 stars because of the acting and the story. Otherwise it would have been 4.

It is extremely slow. Almost every episode repeats the same elements from episode 1 because the basic concept is simple.

Find the women, kill her before anyone else does.

The sound effect often does not match the scenes too.

No intense at all.

I fell asleep several times before finishing a episode.

Definitely not something I can finish at one shot.

To be honest I think it would have been better if the director had been James Wan.

What makes the conjuring 3 less scary is it lacks the scenes that make people upset and thrilled.

For instance, in the conjuring 1, the clapping hands from the closest.

The conjuring 3 also has a scent of sci-fi. For instance when the picture of the guy cursed fell onto the ground, the way it flies is not natural, as if something you would see in a low budget sci-fi or aliens stuff.

Some scenes could have been more frightening, and more importantly, logical. For instance, when the possessed guy is floating in the air, the prison guards are seemingly doing nothing, as if they really did not know what to do when shooting.

Another example is the scene when Lorraine was trying to destroy the alter. She could have destroyed the setting e en if she could not overturn the table. It should be explained.

As a consequence, the way that wakes up Ed from the hallucination is love. Again, it is extremely cliche, lacking freshnesss.

The conjuring 3 os okay but not my first recommendation.

Very slow. The first 30 minutes is a waste except for the father's story. For the next 20 minutes or or, you start wondering if the thing really exists or it's all in their head.

You will get the answer shortly.

But soon you will realize the thing is not the puzzle to solve because it is not a thriller at all.

For a thriller, I will give 5 stars; NO scene is scary at all. I mean if this movie gives you a scare Jim then you should avoid all Korean and Japanese horror.

For a drama, it's not bad; a few scenes are exceptional beautiful; some are meaningful.

But is there a lesson in this movie? I don't think so.

If you are looking for jump scares, you should skip this movie. It is simply too good for those who think scare is a must element in horror files.

This is definitely one of the best horror movies in recent years. Far better than IT.

I believe every movie must have an idea or a concept that the movie tries to convince people to believe or to remind people of. "The medium" asks "what exactly is faith?"

Is it the God we believe in or is it something that people create when facing their deepest fear?

The movie is very interesting; as the audience forms a theory to the puzzles/causes based on some clues, logics and world knowledge, very soon very soon, the theory is overthrown because of new clues.

The story is very well-told. You want brutal scenes? Yes, there are plenty. You want blood? Yes, it floods. It does not have some typical/ cliche jump scares or sudden loud music, which is good because these effects are so damn boring.

The horror that this movie delivers is the fear of helplessness when you look for help from faith but deep down you know you have questioned your faith, even just for once.

It's not bad, really.

It deserves at least 7, maybe 7.3. But definitely more than 6.

The pace is okay. What ruins the movie is the sound effect/music. It gives a creepy feeling but in fact the scene is not creepy or eerie at all.

The same content/ideal probably will be ruined if the scripts falls into the hands of marvel.

Some American government agent puts together a team and ruin everything. I see this an irony to American's ego which is often translated as a heroic image in many movies. It's nice to have a different interpretation of what a legendary is.

Not someone genetically modified muscular tall guy. Not some rich intelligent entrepreneur wearing iron suits flying around. Ect...

One of the most broken movies I have ever seen.

Abrupt opening, weird introduction of characters, disconnected info/plots/scenes, poor logic (so off reality).

I mean the acting is not that good but what surprised me is the directing.

Please don't waste your time on this movie.