Alright, another Whispering Corridors movie! My expectations: a ghost story set in a highschool with a decent atmosphere. I wasn't expecting for this to be an award winning effort. I was just in the mood for a ghost story. I enjoyed the previous entries in this series as good entertainment and sometimes with surprisingly great music and atmosphere.
This movie though was nothing like that.
The cinematography is great. Everything feels like a big budget project. The acting is also great, especially the protagonist. She did a great job with what she was handed.
And she wasn't handed a good script. The plot is all over the place. The director was too hasty baiting the audience before giving them something to stand on. He was already throwing build up scenes at us without establishing a rapport with the viewer. Why should I care about what's going to happen when I, as a viewer, don't know who these people are?
It is all a shame because later on he does that with his protagonist but it was at the end of the movie where nothing was at stake anymore.
The other characters are so underdeveloped that I keep confusing them with each other.
This movie though was nothing like that.
The cinematography is great. Everything feels like a big budget project. The acting is also great, especially the protagonist. She did a great job with what she was handed.
And she wasn't handed a good script. The plot is all over the place. The director was too hasty baiting the audience before giving them something to stand on. He was already throwing build up scenes at us without establishing a rapport with the viewer. Why should I care about what's going to happen when I, as a viewer, don't know who these people are?
It is all a shame because later on he does that with his protagonist but it was at the end of the movie where nothing was at stake anymore.
The other characters are so underdeveloped that I keep confusing them with each other.