Circus

Rating: 4/10 (22 September 2019)

Watch as this rag-tag group of loser children battle an immortal demon. What's more impressive than their bravery is the ability of the writers to put in a myriad cliches in two hours. Fat kid that reads? Check. Tom-boy that rebels? Check. Sexually minded loud mouthed boy? Stuttering kid? Protagonists are nerdy underdogs? Check check check. It's just your normal American town, complete with a psychopathic 15 year old bully who beats kids to the verge of death with no motive.
So how do you fight an immortal demon? With baseball bats, crowbars, and a lack of fear, in that order apparently. A cattle pistol to the head doesn't quite work. What is the nature of the antagonist? We don't know, but it can shape-shift, teleport, heal himself, and be in several places at once. it can do anything basically, except harm a child when it would be inconvenient for the story.
My biggest problem with a movie like this is that anything goes. There are no rules to physics or logic an the writers are free to write what they want. Perhaps that applies to most stories, but in this movie I felt no connection to the cookie cutter characters and I spent more time thinking wth is this then being engaged.