That was boring...but also a few laughs

Rating: 2/10 (17 March 2019)

This movie seem to have a lot of critics and others praising it, so having a boring weekend I decided to check it out.
And I soon learned that this movie is not suspenseful, it is not thrilling, and is about as scary as watching my towl dry up in the sun.
So we have a black man as the lead actor, and the movie it sort of touched on some of the problems that, apparently, excist with interracial dating. The girl, who is white, and her family which is white, and their friends, also white, mumbles a lot of things about being white and voting for Obama (like that is a good thing) and how Tiger Woods is a great golfer... yawn... About here I was actually starting to think of golf, how to build a great golf course, how watching paint dry on said golf course...
I saw a critic stating this movie is groundbreaking - yea... true, it is groundbreaking for insomniacs, the first half of this movie and they will fall down sleeping for sure.
So before I head into the second half of this movie, which is sort of fun (but not in a good way) let me list a few good things about it. This movie is pretty well acted, the setting is nice and fitting, a few scenes are really well done, some humor lands pretty well, and although the "mystery" of the story is easy to figure out after 15min, I was still a bit intrigued how they would pull it off. This movie is not horrible all the time. The first half, although kind of weird in tone and boring, is pretty okay. And the movie keep itself decently in its own world and as such its pretty well made.
With that said; this movie is so boring. So, so boring. Not only because that "mystery" of the movie is so transparent, but also because this movie do not know what it want to be. Is it a thriller? Scary movie? Social commentary? Love Story? Is it supposed to be funny? It feel all over the place. On IMDB it states "Horror, Mystery, Thriller"... uhm... okay...
Sure it is not so common that a Black guy do not die first in a "horror" movie, and that although he is sort of the token black guy, he is still the main driving point of the movie. Pretty much everything depends on what he does. But that also feels out of place. Not because he is black, but because he is made so out of place and written almost as the comedic relief rather then the main actor.
In the second half of this movie we see it rolling out all of that boring stuff we already figured out, and it is actually very funny. Not intentionally funny. But when you have a black guy almost written like the comedic relief being the lead in a supposed "thriller" with a plot we already figured out with tons of weirdo white people around, it get hilariously funny. The last 10-15min especially I was laughing out loud at how stupid everything is in this movie.
I actually do think there is a good movie in here somewhere, and I can see the intent as positive, but the execution and the writing, especially the writing in the second half of the movie, is so poorly done.
How anyone can praise this movie is beyond me, but apparently a black lead and a black director is all that is needed to get celebrated.
This is really badly put together movie and although it have some good traits and I think this could have been good, it is one of the worst movies I have seen. The only redeeming trait of this movie is that it is unintentionally funny. This is the sort of movie you can do drinking games to, but is that the sort of movie you want to get praise for?
I cannot recommend this to anyone. But if you watch this, get a lot of beers and everytime someone does something which is unintentionally funny; drink.