"Five Nights at Freddy's" is finally here after 8 years of development hell and what did I think of it?
Let me start off with the good. The animatronics are great. They look so good and faithful and the puppetry is also really well done. The performances are also pretty good. Josh Hutcherson does a really great job and his character was pretty well fleshed out. The directing as well is also really good. We get some pretty nice shots along with some really creepy lighting. There's a decent amount of bloody shots for a PG-13 movie which I really appreciated. There's a great scene involving people breaking into Freddy's which I thought was well done. And finally I thought the final 15 minutes was good, along creepy with some creepy scenes.
Now this is far from a perfect movie it does have quite a few problems. The first being the PG-13 rating. This movie would have benefited from an R rating. It needed more. The script also is a mess. It's a bit repetitive at times with a subplot involving dreams and it felt very redundant. I thought the character of Vanessa felt very unimportant from the movie. And finally I would have liked a bit more animatronic mayhem.
Overall despite a messy story and some odd choices, "Five Nights at Freddy's" offers enough that kept me satisfied.
Let me start off with the good. The animatronics are great. They look so good and faithful and the puppetry is also really well done. The performances are also pretty good. Josh Hutcherson does a really great job and his character was pretty well fleshed out. The directing as well is also really good. We get some pretty nice shots along with some really creepy lighting. There's a decent amount of bloody shots for a PG-13 movie which I really appreciated. There's a great scene involving people breaking into Freddy's which I thought was well done. And finally I thought the final 15 minutes was good, along creepy with some creepy scenes.
Now this is far from a perfect movie it does have quite a few problems. The first being the PG-13 rating. This movie would have benefited from an R rating. It needed more. The script also is a mess. It's a bit repetitive at times with a subplot involving dreams and it felt very redundant. I thought the character of Vanessa felt very unimportant from the movie. And finally I would have liked a bit more animatronic mayhem.
Overall despite a messy story and some odd choices, "Five Nights at Freddy's" offers enough that kept me satisfied.