Painfully boring and cheesy

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2017)

Well this was extremely disappointing. It takes so long for anything circumstantial to happen and gets boring really fast. Nothing about this was remotely scary to me, but was rather obnoxiously cheesy and unintentionally funny. There were so many jump scares in this and none of them worked; they just added to the cheese. The acting was either really bad or just OK. No one stood out. If the characters are children, why not get actually good child actors? One of the first things I noticed is that they completely ripped off the high school long shot sequence from Donnie Darko, which just goes to show how unoriginal this was. It didn't even try. The only redeeming aspect of this, if any, was that I found some of the visuals to be pretty nice, but much of it is obvious CGI.
Maybe since the characters will be older in the next one, the acting will be better. I can only hope.