Pretty pictures, dull characters

Rating: 4/10 (5 July 2019)

Despite its color and glorious premise, Midsommar suffers from an extraordinary lack of imagination. Aster once again fails to successfully mix the terror with the psychological trauma his characters are enduring. The dots are easily connectable but they leave no impression. We are forced to sit through numerous conversations, dinner feast and rituals that go on endlessly scene after scene. The issue with this is Asters mediocre screenplay. The characters say little of interest and the feasts and rituals, although interesting at first, quickly run out of flavor. Midsommar is nowhere near as shocking as it thinks it is. The films final sequence however Is glorious. It's a powerful testament as to what the movie could have been.