Escapism...you betcha

Rating: 5/10 (30 September 2019)

Having read these mixed reviews but only after seeing the film, I share a similar reaction-negative and positive. Plot holes yes, farfetched, muddled, murky reality, lazy explanations, gratuitous gore, unlikeable characters (all but one*) behaving badly, a wild twist, sloppily resolved. Yet for 88 minutes I remained on the edge of wherever I first landed when the movie began. I didn't move or speak until the last segment when I started shouting at the characters who were left. *Rocky was sensational in an almost comical horror flick that didn't feel like wasted time for me.