"Walk Out" Is More Like It

Rating: 2/10 (16 September 2017)

My aunt asked me recently, "Why do they keep re-making old movies and doing superhero movies?" Answer: this movie. Hollywood is clearly tapped out of ideas. I really don't understand all the people appraising this film highly. I lay the blame for its failure squarely on the writers. It might have worked had they not gone off-the-rails sci-fi with the ending. The whole premise of being black in a seemingly racist, remote white community was creepy enough on its own that they could have gone so many other directions with it. I don't blame the actors, because it was their acting that made the plot so predictable. In the end, I'm not sure if the message of this movie was either "don't date interracially" or "TSA rules", but it didn't achieve either. For the people claiming this was a "social commentary" work, I call BS; the villain clearly states that there was no particular reason he picked black people, so any racism message they might have had got lost. This is some of the worst and most sophomoric story-writing I've seen in a long time.