Reviews

Boring. Woman has a baby and must handle the postpartum days by herself. This movie seemed like it was originally a one woman stage show. The other actors appear for mere minutes. The only horror about this movie was the ubiquitous title got me to watch the movie. Go watch something else.

There is a spoiler at the end, but you would have to be an idiot NOT to have seen it coming right from the beginning of the movie. I mean, it's hard to believe a new mom is both breast feeding and bottle feeding every two hours. And the husband doesn't seem to care one bit that a timer goes off for a feeding cycle or helping with the baby.

The girl commits suicide only to be reincarnated at the end? Suicide, as an act of revenge, just because her friends and her boyfriend have an orgy caused by a demon she summoned up? All the people arrive by bus even though one of the characters is rich and could probably afford a car. And the reason they can't leave the town is because they keep missing the bus. When the characters find human and animal bones in the attic, they talk themselves out of telling the police. And in the next scene when they search for a bus, to leave town, and see a police officer, they still don't say anything. A questionable woman, who they have never met, offers them some marijuana joints and tells them that there is something special about them, the characters still smoke them even though some of them have been seeing apparitions of the dead girl.

I wanted to throw a rubber brick at my television every time the characters did some IDIOTIC, illogical thing. I blame the juvenile writing for this awful movie. The direction is good considering the bad script. The acting is okay. But this movie just doesn't make much sense.

This movie jumps back and forth through time way too much. Posting on the screen "Then" and "Now" is irritating and bad script writing. Let me remind you, this is NOT a time travel movie. If you can't tell a good story without jumping back and forth in time, , then or I mean now, you have a terrible movie. The movie should have been told in a more linear time frame, then it wouldn't have been a bad movie.

The movie concerns a trafficking mule who is made an assassin by a female drug lord. He falls in love with the drug lord's daughter which is a no-no. The drug lord sends a hit team after him but they accidentally shoot the daughter. Our man escapes but is hunted down by other assassins sent by the drug lord. Our man thinks the daughter is dead, but she is actually alive and the reason her protective drug lord mother wants the man dead.

A part two to this movie is implied but I bet it won't happen. This movie is convoluted with all the past and present experiences. And the writer is trying his best to emulate Tarantino but just doesn't have the directing chops. The characters are good but cardboard cutouts of various Tarantino characters. There's nothing that makes them distinct.

And the continuity is bad. For instance why does the main character's face have the same facial hair and length of hair two years before and now? The same for the clothing he wears.

Don't put in too much effort to watch this movie and accept it for what it is, a love story with some action thrown in.

There's nothing here but boredom. A "New Orleans Woman" moves to Oregon and feels her personal space is being infringed on. But when these people kill her dog and burn down her house, she seeks revenge. But this happens in the last 10 minutes of a movie that is 1 hour and 42 minutes long. Bad writing and bad directing. All the filler stuff in the middle is nonsense. The antagonist going to church and passing for a good person. The sheriff who can't keep the law and is afraid of the people in the town and blames the woman for not assimilating. Even the woman who is a college professor and gets looked over in a promotion and blames it on the white faculty. Skip it if you can.

Seventeen year old takes the rap for an adult in raping a young girl. He then marries and has a young girl who he then assaults. I think, because the girl doesn't verbally admit to it. So the mother wants to pack up and leave but the husband does everything in his power to prevent it. Also, it just so happens that the adult, the young man took the rap for, is now a police officer and he tries to help even by killing another officer. It kind of gets screwy about then. Which is why this movie get such bad ratings. From the wife/mother being trapped in the trunk of a car to the end where she captures her husband and castrates him, you wonder how it happened. And what happened to the police officer who was the bad guy? Maybe this was a rape survivor's fantasy. Who knows? Bad writing.

This Charlie Chan movie is based on a play written by Gina Kaus and Ladislas Fodor where there is a both a bumbling French detective and a smart detective who it's not Charlie Chan. This play was revised by screenwriters Robert Ellis and Helen Logan to include the character of Charlie Chan. If there was a bit more humor, this could easily have been an Inspector Clouseau, Pink Panther movie. But instead, we have Charlie Chan who almost seems second banana to the scene munching Inspector Marcel played by Harold Huber.

Filmed in 1938, this movie is about German spies and arms smuggling set amidst the possibility of Germany invading France. A French arms dealer, who is trying to ship arms to Germany, is murdered. His wall safe is open and 400K francs are missing. Inspector Marcel is called to solve the murder/robbery with Charlie Chan as support. As a sub-plot, there is a woman who is also trying to smuggle her boyfriend out of the country and has visited the arms dealer for money to pay for fake passports. There is also a shipping coordinator who visits the arms dealer before his death to sell papers for passage. Charlie Chan has to sort through clues and follow persons of interest to solve the murder.

The movie is directed well with nice camera angles and multiple sets so that this doesn't look like a filmed play. The characters are thin and superficial. The movie is centered around Marcel and Chan, There's enough action for Charlie Chan to get into trouble and to chase the clues to an unexpected conclusion. And enough humor for Marcel to take some seriousness out of the movie. The story is a bit complicated and deserves a second watch to understand the conclusion, but what good "who-done-it" doesn't need a second view? Leo G. Carroll and Lon Chaney Jr. Make a brief appearance both in the early days of their careers. This is one film where you can definitely say, "the butler did it".

Great story about an accountant who loses his wife and young daughter to a car accident and goes off the deep end becoming a street pan handler and drunk. His life is changed when he meets a young girl. At first pretending he's the Tooth Fairy to con her out of her bottle and can deposit money and then feeling sympathy for her because her mother's involved with an abusive drug dealer. He then tries to make things right for himself and the mother and daughter.

A very good movie that moves along quite quickly and isn't preachy. It's all about friends and family and redemption and the choices we make to change our lives and the lives of others for the better.

Here's a movie about an anti-hero that from the beginning no one in the audience will like. These are criminals. How can you root for them? They go around intimidating drug dealers into paying 30% of their sales. And you're supposed to have sympathy for David because he has a family. Just when you start to have a tiny bit of sympathy because an opposing drug dealer kills his best friend and his wife and kidnaps his children, you find out he and his friend robbed an armor car years ago and buried the money. In the end you find out all this was because his father, who is now in jail, was a past tax collector. Bad choices made by bad people leads to a bad movie.

What a slow, plodding movie that makes its key star look like a three-day old zombie for no reason other than having young Kidman and old Kidman. Kidman's acting is almost non-existant except for a few scenes in flashback. First of all, Kidman's character Erin Bell is not a good person. Nobody in this film is good.

It's a simple story of two undercover police officers, Erin and Chris (Kidman and Sebastian Stan) who infiltrate a Manson-type gang. Erin gets pregnant by Chris. The gang and its leader plan to rob a bank which by all accounts Erin and Chris should stop. But Erin talks Chris into doing the job and stealing the money, for their future child. The bank heist goes wrong, die packs are set-off and Chris and other people die. How there is no investigation and wrap up, I don't know. But skip forward 16 years and Erin looks like a zombie, again why? Was she punishing herself for 16 years? She receives through the mail a $100 bill covered with dye and knows that the Manson character has raised his head. Like 16 years before, he's planning another bank robbery and this time Erin and only Erin, will stop him. In the meantime, her daughter is dating a gang banger and living with her step-dad. Erin has some of the old bank job money, (again how) and uses it to pay-off the gang banger. Now instead of telling other police officers, Erin handles this alone and the new bank robbery goes down, people are killed and Erin finally gets the Manson type leader.

A decent story that gets muddled down with lackluster acting, bad direction, bad dialog terrible pacing and very bad make-up. The story is told chronologically with flashbacks until the end. That's when the director adds a wrap-around. This movie was like watching bad paint dry. What happens makes no sense police procedure wise. How Erin keeps her job, looking the way she does makes no sense. But I guess I'm overthinking because truth be told, my mind had nothing else to do during this long (2 hr) dull movie.

Though the visuals and camera movements are nice, this movie is plodding like a slow mule. If it weren't for the the discovery of the two skeletons in the first 10 minutes of the movie, which added some suspense, I would have turned this movie off the moment Cookie's hand touch the cow's teat. The sound is lacking in any kind of coherency. If you can, watch it with sub-titles or else you'll be going "what did he say?".

The story is of a baker's apprentice who makes his was to Oregon in the1830s. There he teams up with a well travelled Chinaman and start making and selling donuts to the trappers. Problem is, they are stealing the milk to make their fried cakes from a wealthy landowner who has the only cow in the territory. Upon discovery of this theft, they take it on the lam. I won't spoil who the two skeletons are. But if you watch this movie and get bored, skip to the end and see. You won't have missed anything in terms of story.

This movie is a totally "in your face" teen drama about some precocious kids taking on the adult world and coming to age.

Great acting by Zoey Deutch made me want to stay with this movie to the end. The story was a somewhat teens vs. adults scenario where the adults are played as buffoons and the teens have all the smarts in the world. The movie does keep moving. The only dull and stupid spot is near the end. And it is a shame that the lightheartedness of the first half of the movie became dark and heavy in the second half. But that was more because the writer wanted to show the teens facing adult problems and having to grow up quickly when faced with a harsh reality.

Actress Zoey Deutch plays Erica Vandross, a 17 year old that loves to give oral sex. Most of the time it's blackmail because she's underage and for the saintly reason of trying to raise money to bail her dad from jail for trying to rob a casino. Her dad is the only male she loves. Her mother seems to be totally unaware of her daughter's sexual shenanigans because she is too busy trying to line up a new boyfriend for herself. That new boyfriend comes with an 18 year old, Luke Sherman, just released out of a drug rehab/suicide prevention clinic. Why was he there? Luke states that he was sexually molested by a male teacher, Will Jordan (played by Adam Scott) but no one believed him. Upon release from the clinic, Luke is offered a job by Erica, which he turns down, but explains his problem to her. So she and a group of her friends decide to take down Will Jordan whose life is in shambles because of the sexual molestation allegation. Erica drugs the ex-teacher but after talking to him begins to feel that perhaps her future step-brother, Luke, is indeed a habitual liar. Too late. The drug takes effect and Will Jordan falls into a glass topped coffee table. Erica and her female gang then pose the teacher for some blackmail photographs. The next day, police are at Erica's house because a neighbor saw the likes of her and Luke at the teacher's house. Luke confesses to her that he wasn't molested but did see the teacher molesting another female. Feeling that perhaps they went too far, Erica and Luke head back to Will Jordan's house to make amends. But they find Will dead with a piece of the coffee table in his back. Knowing that they would be arrested for murder, Luke has the bright idea to drive to Mexico. On the run and finding out that Erica's dad was released from jail and that he never contacted her, Erica deems Luke as her new male friend and confidant and has first-time sex with him. The kids are eventually caught and Luke, being over 18, takes the jail time, which is lessened because more people have come forward with molestation charges against the teacher. Erica now adores him as her new alpha male.

I was truly disappointed while watching the movie. I liked the premise and wanted to like it, but from the beginning I was put off by the cartoony cast and the lack of atmosphere. There was no mystery, no suspense, no horror, no comedy. The cast was one-dimensional, simple and predictable. The cast just didn't gel into an ensemble. And although killing was new to some of the new family members, the older ones didn't have that feeling of commitment.

The story is about this rich family who made their money by making a deal with the devil. A century ago, the devil provided them with the cash and resources to build a gaming empire. The devil only asked for annual animal sacrifices and that anyone new entering the family choose, from a strange box, a game to play. Of the choices of chess, checkers and old maid and others, the worse game to play is hide and seek. Played once before, it either means the death of the person. Or, if the person makes it to morning, the death of the family.

A newly married woman, (Samara Weaving) who in order to enter the family, has to play a game. And wouldn't you know it, she chooses hide and seek to play. The hunt starts immediately with the bride unaware of the danger of death. For some reason, the family has to use antique weapons in their hunt. After a couple people try to kill her with cross bows and antique guns, she figures that the family wants her dead and runs. The rest of the movie is her running and hiding and being pursued and bleeding and trying to make it until the morning.

You might think, "wow, what a great premise". And it is, but the execution is terrible and the chase quite predictable.