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Orphan (2009)
Interesting Thriller.
I didn't mind this movie its OK, a lot of the reviews here are giving it massive praise, although I just felt like it had a bunch of flaws even though you have to give credit to all the actors and the film writers, nearly every film has a flaw or two, but it just seemed that this particular film started to slack a bit halfway through till basically the end.
its a good story, but the flaws I'm talking about aren't massive, just commonsense type flaws, the kind of flaws that are deliberately molded into a film that just makes it last the whole 1.5hrs to make it a film in length, i don't want to add possible spoilers or anything like that so I'm not going to bother going into that side to try and holdup why/where i think it was flawed so ill leave it there and just say, it has some flaws, you can watch it and enjoy it, it is tense, i did like the characters the story, and how it moves through, but it just left me feeling a tiny bit disappointed, i quite like 'all' films so its not that this wasn't my genre, but anyway to keep it small ill give it a 7/10 its worth watching and like ppl have said here its not completely what you expect really but it is similar to other (evil)child movies, you will get what you ask for in that sense, but there is a bit more to it.
ill end saying if you can just ignore the small flaws its a good way to kill a couple hours :D (most of the flaws I'm talking about are actually in the goofs section but the general commonsense is just a bit slow, meh, watch it and you'll know what i mean I'm sure.)
there are a lot of reviews on this film when I'm writing this its like 155 + mine 156, so there is a massive variation in views/opinions, ppl hated it, some loved it, but i think the general consensus is in middle, its a time waster, if you only get 1 night in the week to watch a film and hardly any spare time to kill, don't bother with this film, watch The Omen or something its probably a better variation to the same story, if a bit old now.
Shuttle (2008)
Average persons' view.
Im not a critic myself, I can't rate the acting and the actual way the whole film is made, but as my first review, i thought i just had to comment on this particular movie after watching it.
First off its a genuine thriller, it does make you guess just 'what the heck' is going on here. although having a good story and flow doesn't always cut it for a good film.
SPOILER: now this part is where i jump to just what bugged me the most, in nearly every thriller I've seen where the captors end up having a brief moment of becoming the captive, every every time the people that have finally wrestled control of a terrible situation, always seem to fail miserably at ending what is obviously going to be certain doom to them. example, if you were taken hostage, so far down the road you witness you captor mutilate one of the other hostages, after which you manage to finally get control of the situation, would you really (with all that pumped up, andrenaline rushing mind of yours) just turn the tables and keep them hostage, no, the first chance you got you would most likely end their existence before, the obvious happens, bieng you lose control again. i was just saying to myself 'just kill the guy already geez!' what kind of mentality would you have to have to develop some kind of stockholme syndrome within 2 or so hours, the film could of ended about 1hr in, and yet it doesn't. i don't care if your a Christian saint, if you were in that situation, you would of just shot the guy there and then without flinching. even then at the end .. again its cliché 'shoot the bad guy once .. ONCE! i mean common ffs i would of picked up each and every round for that revolver, and emptyed them all into the guys head, just to make sure he was never going to get back up, and yet .. fail fail and even more fail .. did i mention .. the female lead is uber fail?
now apart from the stupid mistakes of the female leads to keep the movie flowing until its fanale, this would be an awesome movie, except it fails on the simple logic that every one in a movie based on hostage taking or where peoples live are at risk, as soon as you think 'woot they're done for now you've got control now just end it!! common just kill them already!' .. no instead its just fail.
from my point of view the film is good, i liked the plot, even though it gets a bit obvious toward the last 1/3rd of the movie. the acting as far as i can tell is good, I'm not an actor myself or even have much knowledge on the subject, but i didn't think any of the films characters really slacked, i did feel gripped by the film, yet again i was pretty disappointed by the fact that the female characters just failed so badly when given the chance to end the crisis. they totally just.. well failed.
7/10 its worth watching if you can get passed the usual movie stretching problems that seem to occur in nearly every thriller type movie.