C. D. Johnson

Movie doesn't make sense. Nothing explained. Characters that just behave weird for no apparent reason. Like a chikd acting like a stranger in her own home where she supposedly hrew up. Or a mom congrinting a monster by prsenting her kid to him. Why? The film looks and feels good, aesthetically. But it is as if a good story premise was handed off to some who then proceeded to make all the bad decisions in screenwriting and directing. And the ending is embarrassingly laughable.

So many plot holes and inconsistencies in this movie. It seemed ike there were three different killers abducting people with three different profiles. Why hide his face? It was not as if there was a big reveal over his true identity. Why another white van at the end? And for a movie based in the '70s, the filmmakers must have done all their research on Tiktok. Play some Doobie Brothers, throw in a rotary phone. And that's it. Also, I guess police were not a thing in the '70s because even when her best friend (who she left) was literally being chased down by the killer, she didn't bother calling any. When one finally shows up, all he has to say is, "There's nobody here." - End of pursuit. And what was with the stupid year counter? It was all in the same year. All in all, just lame.

A lot of slow build up, stupid teen romance drama, cliched lesbian storyline, horror without the horror, a payoff so pointless the only thing you'll remember is the time wasted watching this. Production values okay.

Despite being a movie about embracing your delusions, possibly leading to psychosis down the line, I really liked this movie. I would say one of the best of the year. The lead actress who plays Bea was a little stiff, but who likes emoters anyway? My favorite scene was the mental psychic attack perpetrated against Cal by Bea. She did the Shadow King proud. And it's hilarious that Brad Pitt played Keith.

This movie doesn't even manage to get up enough energy to pretend it's good. Regurgitated, illogical fluff.

This movie switches from a psychological thriller to a final girl horror movie in the blink of an eye without any explanation. The build-up at the beginning of the film ends up going nowhere. And the big bad is some apparent biological organism that doesn't follow any of the rules in which a biological organism should. Which means the lead character's status as a wannabe astrobiologist provides her with no advantage at all, which makes you wonder why the writer even bothered mentioning it.

While the direction, atmosphere, and acting is pretty good, it's the usual lost child / pagan cult script which falls into the same old tropes, with illogical behaviors by the characters as the most obvious thing about the story. Plot holes around. A sadly predictable ending is the result. It seems that horror movie screenwriting is a lost art. We are deep in the new age of copy-and-paste writing. Almost makes you hope that AI can do better.

The nukes somehow set the entire on fire, even in the places where there is desert, and the astronauts believe they are going home in few hours. Nuff said.

Could have been a great movie. But the last 10 minutes made it a stupid movie. Nothing worse than an hour and a half of buildup, and then an inspired, unsatisfying, anticlimactic vanity project of an ending. I guess they were going for the anti-John-Wick.

While visually entertaining (average CGI), the movie suffers from the same thing all Hollywood big budget movies do. It's almost unnecessary to say it at this point, but: A completely and disappointingly predictable script, and enough of the accompaning plot holes to sink an aircraft carrier. The characters were shallow, paper-thin cliches, including Wonka himself. And worst of all, the movie doesn't do the one thing an origin story needed to do: Explain where Wonka's magical power came from. It's clear from the movie that he is not the only one with access to magical items, but the story does nothing at all to advanced this idea through world building. In fact, we learn nothing about the world at all.