High hopes, big let downs

Rating: 3/10 (28 December 2018)

Let's start with the good. The story line showed promise. With all the suspense and drama a good movie starts with, and a plot that comes on thick with twists. Then it happened. The agenda of today's Hollywood. Although the cast is talented with only marginalized hints of B acting. The actual push to make the participants as diverse as possible (which, unless you live in a bubble in a big city on a coast, is completely unrealistic) and with political innuendos that can ruin any movie with potential. This movie does it. Imagine the most selfish a-hole in the movie is an adult Caucasian male who makes political references in negative forms and condescends on all the other characters. There is a small saving grace for this character, but the damage is done. 1/2 the audience is alienated. The female will be the hero, while anyone who isn't a minority in some form will be either evil or selfish or both. While all minority's will be sacrificial and caring in this cast. Every single evil person in this movie is Caucasian. Every single one. Except, of course, Sandra Bullock and two other supporting females. Even though the movie is ripe with diversity. It's a sad time that movies are so ruined by politics that you can't even enjoy a mental get-a-way with a movie anymore. I miss the Pulp Fictions, Breakfast Clubs and the Shawshanks where movies were just that. But back to the plot. The thing that bothers me the most of ANY good horror/thriller is what I call the "Blair witch project effect". They avoid the biggest thrill by never allowing you to put a face or body to monster(s) they all fear. That is the weakest part of the film. Fear of nothing is big these days and seems to be the M.O. of today's hot topics. Fear with no foundation is laughable but seems 50% of the audience doesn't mind. This could have been a great movie in respect to a fairly decent plot. The actors were good. But everyone is so drunk on the political poison that it ruins the party. Every. Single. Time. Thanks Hollywood. Smh.