Should have been named 'Gramarama' or 'Dullarama'

Rating: 1/10 (23 June 2018)

I was looking forward to seeing this movie based on the great reviews it was getting. It was nothing like what people were saying. The first hour just drags on and on. It felt like the director didn't want to make a short movie, so he made sure the actors spoke their lines as slowly as possible. And the camera had to hang on every scene an extra minute longer than needed.
Sure there were lots of fancy camera editing tricks going on throughout this film, but it was just style over substance.
The ending was silly. It didn't make sense why they needed to go through all that elaborate setup just to get their final desired outcome.
And this movie was way too predictable, in terms of the themes, because you pretty much suspected it would go the same way as movies like Insidious, Paranormal Activity or Conjuring to explain the source of the ghostly manifestations, or the 'destiny' of certain characters.
The worst part was the way this family was portrayed. Everyone was a zombie. I didn't understand how Toni Collettes character was employed? Who makes or commissions diaramas for a living. And then she was making diaramas for every event in her life, including a TMI one for her daughter's birth lol. And what was the father's job? Gabriel Byrne just sits at a desk, answers the phone, looks at the computer. Not that we really needed to know his educational background, but a little background of his life, motivations, etc... would have helped. The kids walked around like zombies and after awhile, it just got tiresome watching them moping.
I would recommend skipping this one until you can watch it for streaming. Even then, don't pay full price.