Review of Jinn

Jinn (2014)
1/10
Horrifyingly terrible
3 January 2015
Warning: Spoilers
I really just don't know what to fully make of this rubbish. Right from the start this is just a terrible movie that tries in vain to pull itself off as a serious horror.

From it's deplorable premise, acting and dialogue, it's any wonder that anyone involved didn't just gave up halfway through and walk off the set during filming.

For some reason the movie tries to make us believe that only 3 beings were ever created; man made of clay, angels made of light and jinns made of fire. At one point in the movie, we are told and expected to believe that there are no such things as ghosts, poltergeists or demons and that everything bad that happens in the world is the work of the Jinn. So forget everything you've ever learnt before. Plane crashes, disease, wars, terrorism, Kirsten Stewart; they're all the result of Jinns.

Most of the time I couldn't even work out what was going on and after several attempts at trying to make sense of this movie I simply gave up trying, so I never even made it to the end. The dialogue is so soft at times it's like they're whispering to each other knowing that what they're saying is so stupid that hopefully we won't pick up on it. That is until something weird happens then we have the obligatory loud sudden music that blows you out of the room hoping that the sheer shock and inevitable heart attack that follows will somehow turn this crap into some kind of horror movie.

Nothing I saw in this made any sense and it's so disjointed it's like no one even read the script. The main protagonist is somehow the latest in a long line of supposed Jinn killers and now without any real explanation he has evil stalking him. This evil wants to manifest itself in the form of a shadow at the window in a nearby building and a break in at his home which results in some kind of bizarre furniture stacking. All of this is of course supernatural as no human can stack furniture and no voyeur ever cast a shadow in a window but whatever. So we're off to see a priest as the cops didn't take anything seriously and why would they seeing as nothing has happened and no one was hurt, but there's evil afoot so why not go to a priest. This priest who just so happens to know all about him and tells him that evil is stalking him gives him a dagger just in case there's more evil furniture stacking and fluttering papers.

I gave up at this point as I refuse to watch a movie that's making no sense and follows no story format and has no plot. Jinn is a garbage movie and that's where it belongs.
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