Russian orphan being all alone in the world... with darkness around.

Rating: 5/10 (11 June 2016)

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This is a review made by StoneDraim... and that means that if you want to read a probably different kind of review, keep reading....
This is my personal experience, my personal point of view/perspective and my personal opinion... and my opinion is just one of like 7 billions in this world.
When I heared about this just some time ago, I immediately thought of the single of the rock group TOTOs latest album XIV, called "Orphan". Magnificent and wonderful track! Anyhow.... this is something else.... oh, well.... to the movie.
Got onto this story and motion picture with kind of high expectations. Two things that really got me almost directly; a little forced script and lame acting. The things: the nun says goodbye to the family and then all of a sudden needs to go outside and wave when the family is just metres from her? Typical bad directing, script and acting... it is separated from how the social behavior use to be. Nr. 2: the father neglects the sons achievement of Rock guitar all of a sudden in that manner as he has done it for years... and the situation is all new. Nr. 3: The mom and her mother speaks in the kitchen. They speaks around something and all of a sudden A.A.- meeting comes up. And then...just to clarify too much, she has to say that she's stopped drinking and things like that....? Like that were an enigma with A.A.-meetings? Nr. 4 : Oh no..... the boy in the family starts to bully his own sister? Even if she is an orphan and is separated from the rest of the family in that matter, this is just too much... builds up to an ordinary "oh-a-little-cute-child-turns-out-to-be-like-a-demon" movie. Nr. 5: Oh, come on..... one meeting with a professional psychiatrist and Esther has tricked her senseless? This is just too much! This is ridiculous! Nr. 5:Realllly bad acting and directing... about 1 hour and 3 minutes into the movie. Saarsgaard.... please.... you have to push the director to push you further! Nr. 5: A father almost harasses his newly becoming daughter by saying "You're not scared, are you!?", when Esther is going to the dentist? I have to say that by now this movie have to rise like a Phoenix to be good! Nr. 6: The father has accepted and convinced himself that Esther is just misunderstood and all things is just accidental. All of a sudden in less than five minutes he leaves all that and says straight to Esthers face "You are so confused" and "I have to quit this now!". From 0 - 100 in five minutes?
This could have been an splendid movie. With the ending this stops by little more than approved.
Over to the movie as a product: - The production : Well made as normal standard for an American "almost good movie". The blood and shatter is a little off here and there. - The actors : What can I say... sometimes Esther is rolling on her Russian accent with "thunderous" R:s, and sometimes she speaks almost like a full blown American. Well.... I think this is kind of bad. - The story : Little angel girl turns out to be a human demon. Heard it before.... seen it before... bought the t-shirt. - Entertainment : Some entertainment. Almost just waited too see how much terror Esther could drive in and between the family members. - Age : 15
5,1 out of 10. (The final rate is based most on my own entertainment of the movie. Short elucidation of the rating: 6 Nice production. Good movie. 5 Approved.)