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Dukefrukem
09-05-2016, 01:58 AM
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Dukefrukem
09-05-2016, 02:03 AM
This is one of those movies that doesn't know what it wants to be and tries a little bit of everything, wasting time on the things that don't really matter to what it thinks to be important.

It wants to be Session 9 so bad, but you need to make characters that are believable in your script. Casting a woman for a night job, who is fearless in searching dark areas she has never been to before, only to have her freak out randomly, isn't convincing.

Like the Boy, there's a reveal that they want you to react like you were watching Sixth Sense, but it's really just a deus ex machina (there's no evidence whatsoever of this reveal and it's absolutely pointless).... that doesn't really propel the story. So it's just a should shrug.