The movie was bad. It was a highly visual film, but with unlikeable characters, and there was basically no plot other than a guy who's nuts and starts killing people. None of the dialog was particularly clever, and the "talking pets" angle was sorely underused (a missed opportunity) - most of the people in the theater laughed when the extent of the pet's humor was that the cat says the "f" word every so often in a Scottish accent.
There was no mystery, suspense or even emotion at any point in the film. No fear of if this guy would get caught, and no involvement in his emotional plight. It all came off like a dull hipster romp, and the people who are praising it are likely just that (hipsters)
Add to that that the movie was way too dark, very off-putting even for a dark comedy (there were no laughs, and no scares) a film that doesn't know what it wants to be except that there is a song and dance sequence at the end where all the dead characters sing around and make the audience go home upbeat... the movie tried way too hard and fell flat on it's face.
If you're going to see it because of the talking pet angle, it's like 20 minutes of the film. And then Reynolds starts putting people's heads in the fridge and they talk to him, but they really have nothing interesting to say! Performances were fine, but I seriously gave it 2/10 for it's terrible pacing, barely non-existent storytelling and then not succeeding in any of it's genre attempts - be it comedy or horror or psychological character study.
This will go direct-to-DVD, there's no way this is going to be picked up for a theatrical unless they did massive re-shoots and actually added things like tension (or a plot) and meaningful dialog... which this was sorely missing
There was no mystery, suspense or even emotion at any point in the film. No fear of if this guy would get caught, and no involvement in his emotional plight. It all came off like a dull hipster romp, and the people who are praising it are likely just that (hipsters)
Add to that that the movie was way too dark, very off-putting even for a dark comedy (there were no laughs, and no scares) a film that doesn't know what it wants to be except that there is a song and dance sequence at the end where all the dead characters sing around and make the audience go home upbeat... the movie tried way too hard and fell flat on it's face.
If you're going to see it because of the talking pet angle, it's like 20 minutes of the film. And then Reynolds starts putting people's heads in the fridge and they talk to him, but they really have nothing interesting to say! Performances were fine, but I seriously gave it 2/10 for it's terrible pacing, barely non-existent storytelling and then not succeeding in any of it's genre attempts - be it comedy or horror or psychological character study.
This will go direct-to-DVD, there's no way this is going to be picked up for a theatrical unless they did massive re-shoots and actually added things like tension (or a plot) and meaningful dialog... which this was sorely missing