How is it possible for someone to walk into a movie expecting nothing, and to still come out feeling emotionally robbed? I mean, this was bad. Really, really bad. The entire theatre started watching it as a comedy about half way through, laughing out loud at the parts that were supposed to be scary.

I think the culprit was two-headed. First, the script was atrocious. The endless exposition was annoying, unnecessary, and clunky. Yeah, we get it. The guy got out of jail to kill her. Cool. Let’s get to more of that, shall we? And the endless need to try to plug logical flaws through dialogue…man, instead of spending 10 minutes on exposition and another 6 on plugging logic holes, why not just write a better script?

Second, the conscious decision to make the film as child-friendly as possible really hurt it. If you don’t want to show a lot of blood and gore, that’s cool, but then don’t show the victims. What these guys did was show the victims after they were supposedly repeatedly stabbed, but they made it look as if they just had a bad scratch under their clothes that bled a little. And I mean, I guess scratches can be kinda scary, but they just didn’t pull it off. So the whole thing felt fake, forced, contrived, and silly.

But you know, after a $21 million opening weekend, maybe this was all they needed? I mean, hey, that’s $21 million more than I’ve grossed so far. [ends article with beautiful bow]

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