Review of Smile

Smile (V) (2022)
5/10
The Titanic of Horror Films
8 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I'm going to be using The Titanic as a metaphor becuase it seemed fitting. Talk about wasted potential, this film starts out farily strong building a back story to our protagonist and even showing that she's trying to help people in need. A bit generic but I've seen worse. And the suspense builds till around the half way point. Here's where we see the iceberg, when they try to explain the lore behind "the curse" it seems like the writers were reaching and by that I mean they used other films as "inspiration". But our ship doesn't hit the iceberg till our protagonist finds out how to get rid of said "curse". She needs to kill someone, which she says she can't do and ten minutes later she's got a knife driving full speed to a hospital. Okay, why? Off all the places she could go why go to where you work? Let's overlook that a loving character just made a U turn and is the soul responsible for all those who drowned aboard the Titanic. See how the metaphor fits... The boyfriend and fiance feel like they were shoehorned into the film and added as much weight to it as a paperclip.

I genuinely feel sorry for Parker Finn and mostly for Sosie Bacon who tried despertaly to keep this film afloat, but the writers were like no, we need to make this as ludicrous as possible. Logic has left port ladies and gentleman.

Story: 4/10 Characters: 4/10 Visuals: 6/10 Pacing: 6/10 Acting: 7

Overall: 5,4.
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