One of the best horror movies of the year!

Rating: 7/10 (18 October 2019)

Midsommar was written and directed by Ari Aster, the writer and the director of Hereditary. And starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper and Will Poulter.
And it's about a couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Hereditary was one of my favorite movies of 2018, I think it was an amazing psychological-horror movie,and I couldn't wait to see what Aster's going to do next! Hereditary was a different movie, and Midsommar is way more different and ambitious!
Midsommar is a great horror movie, which takes so much time to build the proper atmosphere, the movie is 147 minutes, so it took its time to create the tension, but sometimes you can feel that time, it felt stretched a little bit, but still it didn't go dull, and that's why this movie is so special, it's not flawless or anything, but it did live up to the expectations, at least it lived up to my expectation.
I didn't expect a gigantic jump scares, which are pretty expected nowadays, I knew that it's gonna be mind-disturbing and unsettling, and it was, it freaked me out, but the issue with the movie is, that every unsettling, or scary -psychologically- was in broad daylight, and that's my biggest issue with the movie, that it failed to reach the same atmosphere as Hereditary did, yeah the movie was scary, but it was always in daylight, I understand why it was in broad daylight, but there was a couple of scenes in the night, and they could use more of that to build an even scarier tension, but unfortunately they didn't, and that dragged the movie down!
But still, Midsommar is so freaky and scary, and I think it's one of the best horror movies of 2019 so far, this genre didn't get a lot of good movies this year, it might be the weakest, but Midsommar did justice to the genre, and to the fans of Hereditary.
The tension was there, and the grief was also there, and you can feel their fears and emotions in every scene, and thanks go to Florence Pugh's amazing performance! I watched lots of her movies, Fighting with My Family recently, and she's an amazing actress, but her performance in this movie definitely takes the cake, she does deliver every and each emotion, her agony, loss, suffering and fear, she was terrific in this movie! But there's a twist to her character towards the end that was so rushed, it made sense, because some of the action made during first and second act, but still rushed... BUT still it was welcome and unexpected!
As I said earlier, the movie is a little bit stretched, and you can tell that sometimes, there were some scenes that did not add anything to the movie, there was a dream sequence, which it felt it was so unnecessary, but still the movie didn't go dull, but what was bland was some of the casting choices, Vilhelm Blomgren as Pelle was my least favorite performance of this movie, his character is so important to this movie, but his acting was so bad and soulless, he didn't deliver any of his emotions well, he felt something for Dani, played by Pugh, and it didn't add anything to the movie, and they never got back to that point again! He was bad in this movie, and unfortunately there is a lot of him in this movie.
All the other foreign characters were so good and scary, sometimes even unsettling!
Midsommar is definitely a great psychological-horror movie, that discusses grief in a deep way within its unsettling disturbing presence, beautifully shot, though it failed to achieve its full horror potential.. and led by a mesmerizing performance by Florence Pugh, but let down by some of the others.
Midsommar is worth your time, and I think most of the horror fans are gonna find somethings to enjoy in it, not only to enjoy, but to love! I'm gonna give Midsommar a B!
Happy Halloween, guys, it's getting close, I'll be reviewing a lot of horror and Halloween movies a lot til the end of October, so stick right here if you liked this review! And as always thank you for reading my review.