Apparently they intended to make an old-fashioned slasher flick, but it turned out as a total failure. The group of teens is extremely unsympathetic, so you couldn't care less what happens to them. There's hardly any suspense, the killings all come pretty much out-of the blue. The kids act stupid, like forgetting to call 911 on their phone, or spreading instead of staying together. The killer as well as the bearded hobo stay totally enigmatic: who the hell are they, why do they do what they do?!? Strangely enough in the end no-one even takes the trouble of removing the mask from the killer! Why do we get these background stories (one kid is the son of a recently arrested investor, another has some unspecified emotional troubles) when nothing is done with it? What's with the cop and the girl who calls him to find her missing husband, are they father and daughter? The acting of especially the kids is abominable, and the end of the movie feels as if the director (who's also the writer) had no idea how to come up with a decent closure and just decided to call it a day.
Review of Central Park
