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Rating: 4/10 (4 January 2020)

Given how much hype surrounded this movie when it came out and how much people praised it it is in fact a huge disappointment and a let down. As others have pointed out the acting is decent and the cinematography is great but the story is slow and makes little sense. There is little character development and in a movie 2 and half hours long that's a problem. Another thing that is annoying that the main characters make the same dumb mistakes in this supposedly clever horror as they do in every other c-grade horror flick and no amount of drugged up chanting pagans or nudity is going to hide that fact.
An elderly couple from the commune commits ritual suicide and one of the characters labels it a cultural difference. A couple from England shocked by the suicides decides to leave. They have been together for four and a half years and the boyfriend supposedly leaves the girlfriend without telling her and the rest just shrug and accept it. There is a scream later on and the girl disappears but no one questions that either. One of the characters decides he is going to do an anthropological PhD thesis on the commune even though his buddy is doing it already and starts pseudo interviewing the commune members for about 3 and a half minutes....because that's how PhD dissertations work...NOT. In reality he would have had to get an adviser, present a proposal to the faculty, get approval, do a literature review and years of research. One of the friends is an annoying joker type who ends up peeing on a tree considered holly by the comune..and it's no surprise that one of the commune members ends up wearing his face later on. Then there is more dancing, sex and chanting as well as human sacrifice and one of the characters joins the community after being declared May Queen through a dancing contest. I swear I'm not making this up.
In conclusion Midsommar is a pretentious and unoriginal movie that borrrows too much from the original Wicker Man and if it was any slower it would be going backwards in time.