not awful, but nothing special here.

Rating: 5/10 (30 April 2020)

I didn't come to here with major expectations fortunately. i'm also having "luck" and watching good movies recently, so this falls short. "orphan" has a lot of problems: first it's how suddenly things started to appear. everything it's all right and in a sudden problems. there's no atmosphere building to that, no signs, nothing - without any predictamentes "ohh, there's danger here! why? because someone says so". big meh. then a lot of cuts make this movie not very scary except once or twice.
the build up is pretty mediocre that's the main problem. we understand things escalating pretty quickly, and it's pretty much the same types of escalations at a certain point. i don't want to ge much spoilers but at a certain time of the movie, you get tired of haing the same thing all over again. the final reveal is ok i guess, even though the way they show it is too much of a cliche.
I didn't hate this film, but it was too formulaic for me. just the same scares all over again, for too long and it's very predictable on how it wants to create fear on the viewer. i liked more some collet-serra films with liam nesson than this one. not awful, because this story has potential, but not good either. needed to have way better build up until its final revelation. and some characters are just dumb and unrealistically take bad decisions, no matter if the script wants to say the opposite - it's not possible in real life.
if you want give it a go, but i think you would like if this was different. plus it should only have one hour and a half, more than enough for this.