Seriously?

Rating: 2/10 (6 July 2019)

I have never written a movie review before, but I felt like I needed to for this movie especially after its hype and good reviews for which I don't understand.
The good:
To start, the movie was filmed beautifully. To be honest, that's basically what kept me in the theaters. The camera work was stellar and the death scenes were pretty good. The beginning of the movie did draw you in well, giving you important info about the girl's troubles which gave me great hope for the rest of the film. As a thriller, I could see how some would have slightly more to say here, but for me, this is basically all to the good section.. sadly.
The bad:
First off, seeing so many trailers of this movie had me so excited. It always was showing creepy images, describing how disturbing it'll be, and how many critically acclaimed people "loved" it. However, the movie delivered none of this. I wasn't disturbed in any way throughout the entire movie. None of the weird dances, deaths, rituals, runes, settings, or dialogue had me feeling awkward. So for me, that was definitely the biggest let down because I was expecting even just one scene (like Hereditary when the girl's head comes off or the bugs etc) to have me on the edge of my seat due to the way the movie was advertised. Secondly, I was BORED. It was like one of those netflix movies you try out and watch for 30 minutes and decide to change it because of its sheer inability to develop into anything. This movie could have been an hour and a half and done the same exact thing it did with it being two hours and thirty minutes long. For the length of the movie it failed to develop any of the other characters and it failed to connect any of the ideas and underlying meanings together. You basically watch something where you can predict literally everything that will happen (seriously, everything) and then watch it's pathetic ending of the main female character smiling. Really? No twists and we also close with that sad ending? Lastly, I love movies with underlying meanings and symbolic pieces. However, what's the point when the symbolic stuff is in another language? You see all of these runes depicted that mean something for the characters, showing a piece of them and foreshadowing, yet, you can't understand any of it. I had to look up an explanation of the movie, not cause I was like WOAH WHAT JUST HAPPENED? But because I was simply saying, wtf and hoping the symbolism would make me think better if the movie. Even when discovering the runes meanings I was still disappointed in the lack of depth.
Conclusion!
The movie was fine. Based on the display it was amazing, but the over drawn story with its lack of depth, predictability, and sad attempts of "disturbing," were extremely disappointing. There are many things I missed and I can see how one may like it a bit more, but for me this movie was pretty terrible and I can't see how one would ever love this film.