Formulaic & Cliché

Rating: 3/10 (22 December 2014)

The Babadook isn't a bad film, but it isn't the great film that I expected to see. In fact it is very formulaic and cliché, with obvious foreshadowing that takes away any thrills, excitement and surprise from the future of the film.
As I watched the film I was easily able to predict the next scene throughout the film, all the way to the end. Which couldn't come soon enough; the story drags through the first 45 minutes of the film at such a slow pace that you become annoyed just by sitting though it.
The Last 45 minutes were barely a saving grace as the flow of the story picked up, but the entire film lacked a climatic scene that was interesting.
The Babadook is visually nice and doesn't use a lot of the Hollywood bloated techniques which I can certainly give it high praise, and the story telling which was done fantastically receives high praise.
But in this case, no matter how good it looked, how awesome the director was, the story itself just lacked enough interesting material for it to be a feature length film.