large scale tedium

Rating: 3/10 (14 January 2016)

This has to be one of the most protracted and fundamentally boring horror/thrillers I've seen in a long time. It has pretensions of being deep and edgy, but is really nothing more than standard kid-gone-bad fare that's been done a billion times before. It goes round and round in circles getting more and more tedious as the excitement supposedly notches up (except it doesn't), until all you want to do is make it stop. It does stop eventually after about 847 and a half hours, by which time you're wondering are pyramid tea-bags better than circular ones, and did we really go to the moon.
I should point out that the actors aren't to blame, the acting is okay. The director also doesn't really mess anything up (although the direction doesn't stand out either). It's the screenplay/writing/script here which is so utterly generic and devoid of inspiration that the whole thing falls flat. Nothing happens in this movie which hasn't been done before and better, and that's slightly depressing. THE OMEN remains the ultimate scary-kid-gone-bad movie for my money, and will probably never be topped.