After a boy and his best friend are kidnapped, our protagonist manages to escape, but is then faced with the dilemma of getting real help for his friend, or going back in the house to spend an hour and half moving from room to room with the urgency of a potted plant. But his biggest challenge isn't fighting the kidnapper, or even how to unlock the door to his friend's prison, but his own lack of problem solving skills. No human acts like our protagonist who doesn't seem to know what he's doing from one moment to the next. He flip-flops between trying to free his friend or getting help from a human who has a grasp of object permanence - but fails to follow through with any until he's fought and hidden from two bad guys on multiple occasions.
This film is more frustrating than tense. His fight, flight, or freeze seems to switch on and off at random, sometimes fighting, sometimes crying into his knees, but never with any consistency.
This film gets one star for its soundtrack and another because a 10 year old hilariously has the mental wherewithal to clean up a dead body to avoid detection, but not enough to actually flee.
This film is more frustrating than tense. His fight, flight, or freeze seems to switch on and off at random, sometimes fighting, sometimes crying into his knees, but never with any consistency.
This film gets one star for its soundtrack and another because a 10 year old hilariously has the mental wherewithal to clean up a dead body to avoid detection, but not enough to actually flee.