Average, or better put boring and tedious

Rating: 5/10 (15 September 2013)

I very rarely review movies. I think I have only reviewed two. And I just felt a need to give my point of view on this movie. It was poor. I am a major Evil Dead fan. Of the first two (given that two is also just a remake of one) I much prefer the scares and seriousness of the original over the equally great but in a very different way camp fun-fest of the sequel. Like everyone I was looking forward immensely to Evil Dead's remake. I was planning on seeing it at the cinema until the reviews on here started popping up. So I never. I also never wanted to see it on Blu-Ray as the reviews were so bad. But someone at work said ignore the reviews and it is great old school horror and the people who disliked it on here would be the people loving the funfest of the sequel and Ash whereas this one is serious like the first one. So I rented it out from Blockbusters.
And I have to say I did not enjoy it at all. I found it boring, slow and tedious. Even when the action started it was still slow and tedious. The pluses are it starts off with a good opening in the first 10 mins. The who I thought would be lead girl Mia is truly gorgeous, and her story and plight of getting over her drug addiction seemed interesting so I said to myself at the start of the movie I hope she is not one of the one who gets killed off or turns into a demon. But she turns out to be the first one leaving a bunch of dead-weights left.
Now the problems it is so tedious. After she gets possessed it takes something that felt like 20 mins for her to show it. In the original it was one of the biggest scares where they are playing guess the card and she suddenly knew them all and then suddenly 'demoned out'. In this it is a slow drawn out process of slow decay. It literally made me say 'oh just get on with it' And when she finally turned out possessed I was not shocked, or scared I was saying, "finally". The thing also is there is also a continuity thing, as the second girl in comparison to the first seems to get possessed and demons out in minutes.
Another problem none of the characters, bar Mia, were at all interesting and like I say she was out of action from half way in.
The demon murders were unsatisfying. The entire film was demons attacking them, everyone refusing to fight back. Then them saying they will fight back and the demons every time reverted back to human form and each and every time they just gave up to get the same, we are not human scare come back.
For a good portion of the movie I had it on fast forward just so I can say I have watched it. This is something I never ever do.
Its a very poor movie and would recommend everyone gives it a miss. For closing I will say last night I watched No One Lives which is another movie getting mixed reviews and this film blew me away. That is how to make a good siege based horror movie. That film was epic. Rent that instead of this, trust me.