A tribe of pretty annoying pagans...

Rating: 2/10 (4 November 2019)

Fortunately, I rented this while I was working from home so it wasn't a waste of time, but it was a waste of $5. Horrible. The preview is better than the film itself. One good thing about the movie is the cinematography and back drop. It's stunning. That's it. The beginning of the movie looked promising. Once they got to Sweden, it was all downhill from there. There was zero character develop. We don't even get to know Dani really well and the story really focuses on her. Christian and the other Americans, I could not have cared less what happened to any of them. Mark couldn't be more annoying if he tried. But we don't even get to know them. A big focus of the movie is supposed to be about the relationship between Dani and Christian. What relationship? They spend almost no time delving into any of that. The British couple actually seemed really interesting. Again, we don't get to know anything about them at all, even in death. Even the villagers are left strangers to the viewer. There's so many of them, but there isn't a single one who you end up caring about, except for the disabled Oracle. Now that was a storyline and it went no where! They could have even done more flashbacks to her life with her parents and sister which is the whole reason Dani was so messed up and went with them in the first place. Another thing that really got me is once you turn 72, you're supposed to jump off the cliff every "May Day". There were many characters clearly over 72 years of age running around after the two who killed themselves bit it. Don't get me started on the barn scene with Christian and Pelle's sister. It was more disturbing than anything. Actually a little gross to be honest. At the end, I was happy Christian ended up as the bear. Thought it was weird there was no closure. Just brainwashed Dani standing there with a creepy smile. And if you don't want to hear a lot of wailing and screaming and strange noises people should never make, definitely avoid!!! If the 9 sacrifices are only done every 90 years, everyone really seemed to know what they were doing. They must have rehearsed extensively!