Having saw previews of this one, I wasn't holding my breath on it being good given who the film was written & directed by.
The film sees 2 Dads who are holidaying at a cabin during the summer with their daughter until they're taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse before it's too late.
I found the film to be pretty mundane & boring. I mean, like most of M. Night Shyamalan's films, their too out there, slow & pretty boring. This film is no exception. The plot is simple the twist you could sort of see coming a mile a way & the action was very sparing & too few & far between.
The pacing is bad, nearly 45 minutes in I looked at my watch. At 94 minutes, 1 hour & 34 minutes, this film is overly long for what it is. I also found the modern day sniping to be unnecessary along with the films underlying cryptic message about sacrifice. The repetitiveness got annoying & didn't once forward the plot or give us any idea on how the film was going to end.
Overall, another horror that falls flat on it's face. Can't we just have decent straight forward horrors with no modern day drivel added in? Not to mention a film that doesn't have a weird plot with poor pacing & a off runtime? I don't know. The film didn't cut it. It was too slow, boring, mundane & repetitive & the ending wasn't that great & very anticlimactic.
3/10.
The film sees 2 Dads who are holidaying at a cabin during the summer with their daughter until they're taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse before it's too late.
I found the film to be pretty mundane & boring. I mean, like most of M. Night Shyamalan's films, their too out there, slow & pretty boring. This film is no exception. The plot is simple the twist you could sort of see coming a mile a way & the action was very sparing & too few & far between.
The pacing is bad, nearly 45 minutes in I looked at my watch. At 94 minutes, 1 hour & 34 minutes, this film is overly long for what it is. I also found the modern day sniping to be unnecessary along with the films underlying cryptic message about sacrifice. The repetitiveness got annoying & didn't once forward the plot or give us any idea on how the film was going to end.
Overall, another horror that falls flat on it's face. Can't we just have decent straight forward horrors with no modern day drivel added in? Not to mention a film that doesn't have a weird plot with poor pacing & a off runtime? I don't know. The film didn't cut it. It was too slow, boring, mundane & repetitive & the ending wasn't that great & very anticlimactic.
3/10.