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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
One of the 10 Worst Movies of All Time
This movie was a complete was of time, director's time, actor's time, my time, your time. The only thing that makes sense is if Lanthimos told all the actors before the film: "Look, whatever you do, for God's sake do NOT act!"
All the characters were stiff and unbelievable. The super powers or whatever the hell it was that Barry Keoghan's character had were unbelievable. To top it off, the idiotic way that Dr. Murphy (played by Colin Farrell) resolved the central dilemma was - wait for it - completely unbelievable.
This was an abysmal mess. Stay far, far away.
Kill for Me (2016)
Do not waste your time
The acting was sufficient. The basic plot was: Charlie gets out of prison after 20 years, all the while never having seen his wife and young son. On last day in prison Charlie steps in to help out a new corrections officer at the prison, and subdues an inmate. The inmate promises Charlie that his son is going to pay. Charlie spends most of the movie desperately trying to track down his son to warn him.
The entire movie hinges on one sequence of events. I played and replayed that sequence of events at least a half dozen times. I do not know if it was the editing, or the photography, or the script; but after this scene my question was "what the hell just happened?" It's not that the audience doesn't realize what's happened; it's that the sequence was filmed so poorly, or edited so poorly, or maybe even written so poorly that it just does not make sense.
That was the fundamental and fatal flaw in the movie. If that one climatic scene had made any sense at all, the movie would be a 7 instead of a 3. But to flub a scene, badly, and that scene being the pivotal scene of the move....was unforgivable.