Ari Aster is No Polanski....

Rating: 7/10 (10 June 2018)

Hereditary by Ari Aster is a Mix Bag in all Categories.... from excellent storytelling to Questionable and some points laughable directions in sequences. It's hard to get into the film without giving away spoilers, so I'll just highlight the good and the bad. For starters the good, Toni Collette goes beyond expectations with her performance. Being both entertaining and Indulging. Others great performance in the film, Milly Shapiro. Giving enough of a unsettling character to have you feeling uneasy. In lesser hands, the role would have been forgettable. Unfortunately that's were I come to the bad, gabriel Burns which was shocking to me singe he's usually on point in his films but here didn't feel very involved. And was it just me, or did he drop trying to hide his accent with in 20 mins into the run time? Alex wolff was fine.... throughout the picture he was between fine and really? They're
not gonna try a second take? (Really needs to learn how to cry) For the directing aspect and cinematography the film does pull off some very memorable and even horrific shots. One in particular stuck with my wife and I even after we were leaving the theater. (Trust me you'll know it when you see it) But other shots were just too distracting that it took you out of the picture. I'm always for a film to have fun with its directing but you have to know when it too much. The one aspect I enjoyed the most were the little changes of details in background as the film progresses. From a few models being moved around, to a missing car in the driveway. All In all, Hereditarys only crutch is that it feels like the director was too busy trying to follow others Influences instead of focusing on what could've been his own master in horror. I give Hereditary 7 out of 10.