Just like Wicker Man

Rating: 2/10 (31 December 2011)

I liked the majority of the movie, everything was above average. The point behind a story is to be interesting whether the quality of production be good or poorly done it all comes down to how the story makes someone feel. I feel disappointed. This movie set itself up to be great but instead took a cheap way out by ending it without putting much thought into it, hoping that people would draw conclusions about how horrible somebody could be. Wicker Man is a classic example of this. The movie builds up to what seems to be an amazing climax but instead ends without much effort. The end of a movie to me describes the intentions of the director which in this case is to make you contemplate humanity instead of be entertaining. I have no qualm with the idea of making you contemplate humanity but to base an entire movie on that idea is ridiculous, unless its entertaining as hell. Which in order to do that Eastwood should have made a brilliant ending. Instead he took the road less traveled and thought "Let's mix it up a bit" and made it a terrible open end, which many other directors have tried to do and thats really not the best way to end a performance. I know its unexpected but it also lacks the entertainment factor.