A Laughable Plot-Twist Let-Down

Rating: 4/10 (13 July 2013)

*Possible Spoilers*
Meet Esther. So sweet. So intelligent. So creative.
And once you "really" get to know Esther you'll just love hating her guts right through to the very end.
Yeah-Yeah. I know that this was just a movie, but, hey, all the same, I don't care what sort of rare form of dwarfism that Esther was cursed with, we're talking about a 33 year-old woman here - And there's no was on Earth that the face of a woman that age could've possibly retained its youthfulness of a 9 year-old for close to 25 years. No way, Jose.
And, that, my friends, is why, in my books, this Horror/Thriller lost itself so many points.
There's no plausible way that Esther could've ever kept up her devious, little deception for such an extended period of time, especially when you mix into this poisonous recipe the messy ingredient of her committing multiple murders and actually getting away with it for so long.
From a standpoint of rational thinking, that was just too much for this viewer to accept.
And, besides all of that, Orphan was one of those films that could've certainly used some serious editing.
At its 2.5-hour running time, I had grown so bored of the whole charade that by the time Esther's true identity was finally revealed, I honestly couldn't have given a sweet damn about it, at all.
In fact, this revelation was almost anti-climatic in nature.