A Fun Scare-A-Thon Tattered By Its Ending

Rating: 6/10 (15 October 2009)

Every once in a while, you see a film that has been so praised by both critics and audiences that the hype is astounding and yet the film manages to meet all of your many expectations. Then, there are times when the film fails to be as great as you hoped it would be; such is the case with "Drag Me to Hell", the return to horror for acclaimed writer/director Sam Raimi. Though not a bad film by any stretch of the imagination, it is also not the masterpiece that many will have you to believe. Rather, it is a pleasantly average slice of cinema that, despite a nearly masterful blend of humor and horror, almost seems insignificant in the grand scheme of cinema and even Raimi's career. Its biggest flaw arrives in its final two minutes, in which the film takes an ironic twist that anyone could have seen coming from a mile away. Bleak and cheerless, the ending is not flawed so much in what happens, but rather in how it happens.
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