Seriously underwhelming and disappointing film...

Rating: 1/10 (29 April 2016)

I am constantly confused by people who highly praise films which are simply poor. I think critics are particularly known for doing this but the general public are also guilty of it. It is almost like hipsters who try to like things that most people don't so they can look or sound different to everyone else and I'm getting sick of it. Rotten tomatoes has rated this film with a 90, a goddamn 90! Another good example to compare this with is Babadook which is one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time but it was awarded 98! Am I going crazy or is it me who fails to realise how good or bad a movie is?
I understand that people have differing tastes but there has to be a limit. The Witch has good ideas running through it but they are poorly executed. The majority of the time I felt like I was waiting for something to actually happen. People explain this as being tension, I explain it as being boring and underwhelming. Not once was I scared or felt tense. When something did actually happen it just wan't done very well. The acting wasn't as bad as in Babadook but it was certainly questionable. There were moments where I had to cringe at how bad the acting was. I could really tell I was watching a film rather than believing the story and characters it involved.
This was the type of film which certainly had the possibility of being great but due to choice of actors, choice of director and the unexciting plot it failed miserably.