I really wanted to go see Annabelle after seeing the trailer, which made it seem like a good horror movie... But it wasn't.
The movie tells too much in the first couple of minutes and then starts off at a really slow pace. Nothing much happened for the first hour or so. There were a lot of missed opportunities where genuinely scary things could be done. Unfortunately the director choose not to do that, instead he tries build tension and create a mood by having Mia move around really slow... which started to get annoying really fast.
There were plot holes, strange reactions from the characters in order to make the story work and so on... In the theater I was watching, there actually were a couple of times the audience spontaneously burst into laughter at how stupid what was happening on the screen was.
For me there were two scary scenes in the movie, those who saw the movie probably know the ones I'm talking about. And unfortunately even these scenes could have been made even more scary then they were.
This was a story and a movie with a lot of potential, unfortunately it wasn't as good as it could have been.
Annabelle isn't a complete waste of time, but if you're looking for a really good, scary horror movie, it's not for you.
The movie tells too much in the first couple of minutes and then starts off at a really slow pace. Nothing much happened for the first hour or so. There were a lot of missed opportunities where genuinely scary things could be done. Unfortunately the director choose not to do that, instead he tries build tension and create a mood by having Mia move around really slow... which started to get annoying really fast.
There were plot holes, strange reactions from the characters in order to make the story work and so on... In the theater I was watching, there actually were a couple of times the audience spontaneously burst into laughter at how stupid what was happening on the screen was.
For me there were two scary scenes in the movie, those who saw the movie probably know the ones I'm talking about. And unfortunately even these scenes could have been made even more scary then they were.
This was a story and a movie with a lot of potential, unfortunately it wasn't as good as it could have been.
Annabelle isn't a complete waste of time, but if you're looking for a really good, scary horror movie, it's not for you.