Average movie B-movie and Hollywood sucks the blacksnake

Rating: 3/10 (19 September 2017)

This is an average movie. You could almost say it is a remake of 'The Stepford Wives' but with black people and a bit of 'Guess who's coming to dinner'. Not an original premise in anyway. If this movie was made by a white director/writer I don't think it would be getting all the attention and acclaim it has received. The main idea is ludicrous. The frontal cortex and parietal lobes in the front part of the brain are where personality resides. There is no personality left in the lower parts of the brain. Remove those upper portions and your left with the Medulla and Pons and other lower portions of the brains that serve mostly the autonomic functions like heartbeat and respiration. The exposition portion of the film, which in a good film is the best part usually, is just stupid and does nothing to enhance the film or our knowledge of what is happening. It starts off good, but steadily declines as the movie goes on. As we get towards the end it degenerates into a standard B-movie reel. The violence for no reason at all, in killing the father with the antlers, as if he wouldn't have heard him coming down the hall. Who starts a brain procedure without both patients being ready in the same non-sterile room with the door open? The villain brother whom by all means is DEAD or critically injured, comes back to life at the end somehow a la Jason and every other horror movie cliché villain for one more pointless jump-scare, which none got me at all, the predictability of it. The black guy bashed the brother's skull in with a heavy object - a croquet ball I believe. People are frail. There was plenty of blood shown and the force with which he hits him numerous times in the head is substantial, yet I'm supposed to believe that he jumps right up later to continue fighting the uninjured Black Guy? The 'Deus Ex Machina' TSA guy is lame, somehow he comes to save the day at the end, without any information whatsoever and shows up at exactly the right moment. Burn Hollywood Burn. This trope is used in every Hollywood movie - stop using 'Deus Ex Machina' please people, just stop. I have trouble believing any of the white family characters are real. Especially the girlfriend. This is a person that only exists in movies. No girl her age would be acting the way she does, ever. I could continue my rant, but I've already wasted too much valuable time already. With such critical acclaim I was sincerely disappointed. Its my sincere belief that with all the 'White- Washing' backlash recently for movies like 'Ghost in the Shell' and others, that Hollywood and the critics are just riding the black man's jock to make a token gesture to black film maker's "see? we're not racist". Now please someone call me a racist because I didn't like this film as much as everyone else did. I would have re-done the second half completely; left a lot of ideas unclear; if it had continued with the established unacknowledged condescension and creepiness of how the whites were treating the blacks - as objects of curiosity, and gave us a non-Hollywood ending where he undergoes the surgery, but we're not sure exactly if that is bad or good in the end, would have been much less Hollywood, and much more interesting in a broader social context. If it explored the idea if a white brain would do better in a black body, or a black person would do better with a white brain, now you've got me. Instead we get Jason XXXXIIIII horror-movie idiocy. F*** you critics. 99% on Rotten Tomatoes? I now know not to pay any attention to that sites ratings whatsoever. First half of film I give an 6 - second half a 2 for an average of 3. Feel free to skip.