Nice effects though.

good back-story, and good acting

Absolutely the worst movie.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

This is a movie to play when nothing else is on Sunday TV. It drags and drags. The main character is a dork and slow to learn, relies on his good looks to spice up the screen, and so clumsy. The storyline was the worst screen to screen performance I've ever seen. I'm not a major movie watcher and can be satisfied watching commercials, but this one was worse than an infomercial. I can only think that this was a pet project by a student or a spoiled rich kid. The only parts that I liked was the black smoke reeking from the jinn while he was floating and the glowing eyes from a "good guy". The rest of the movie is sketchy and lacks smooth transitions that mean something in movie land because we are not there. Viewers need these things to stay on course. I'll never watch a movie ignoring the Netflix ratings and thankfully I didn't read the crazy maxed out stars on here because I would have been truly annoyed at how misleading they are. Ten thousand stars just to balance out the lower stars??? Where does this justify in movie land? Thank God these folks don't have real lives and watch these horrible movies instead of voting for Oscar nominees, etc.

Don't listen to the naysayers. Most of them are probably anti-Muslim and don't want the Muslim director and writer to be successful with this independent effort. Yes, it is very much like a television series pilot movie. And what's wrong with that? We all like TV even when we pretend otherwise.Good TV shows are hard to find. If this had been successful, it would have been closely like Supernatural, only more serious instead of campy cute guys one-lining their way through disasters. Jinn, or Djinn, have an interesting history in our ancient literature, and not just from Muslim sources, although I believe it may have started from there. Ancient Hebrew also have literature regarding the Jinn. If you watched Noah with Russell Crowe, you would have seen a major reference to the Jinn. It is, indeed, a part of our ancient stories of our beginnings which has been forgotten.True? I dunno. But definitely fun. Too bad so many stinkers had to rate this as if it should have been a blockbuster film instead of a really good potential TV series. Some folks are real wet blankets.Watch it, rate it, and maybe someone in power will decide to give it a go.

***Spoilers***Needed more detail to make it a good story. However, it was obvious that the production team had only so much money for the effort. To their credit, the movie did not lapse into mindless gore. An attempt to keep to some involved plot was tried. Acting was fair (not great), special effects were good, production was good. A pretty good Bollywood type effort. Tried and done story of young lad growing up to be defender of the world against evil spirits. Some people show up to help him. He kills big spirit baddie. Scares the rest of them. Roll credits. Credits did look cool, probably best part of the movie. All in all, okay effort, watched it free from offer from cable company for one free on demand movie. Glad did not have to pay for it. Recommend you wait for this one to come out with commercials so you don't wind up mad at yourself.

So let's talk about this movie "Jinn" seems quite legit from looks. Interesting, cliffhanger - like poster, intriguing trailer, and overall movie successful looks, but the real answers and opinions lie within the movie of which you must watch. This movie is a 50/50.First off, the budget of the film. In my opinion it looks well spent. The budget visually paid off as the movie displays interesting climax, beautifully done shots, decent actors, etc. etc. Overall, the movie has a well spent, successful budget that visually gives us a beautiful movie, from start, to finish. That's a huge, pleasing pro in this movie.Next, the acting of this movie. As previously said, the acting is decent, or in this case, well done. Successfully, the actors pull off they're given acts, along with believable characters when it comes to various emotions. But sadly, there's a dark side to this one. The overall characters in this film are never truly explained. Or in this case, there is little to no character background, so through out this movie you know nothing really of the characters, giving us audience less of a true care, or feel for them.. which in reality is a huge waste of what could of been truly done. Overall though, it was what it was.Now comes the overall story of the movie. And before I start this off, I must say, it's pretty much a con. The story in this case is a massive blow to what could of been a good film. It's simply clichéd. It's been seen before! And we sadly have to watch this beautiful cinematography, acting, and CGI smash into this clichéd story! It's as if the story took off bits, and pieces of more successful films, piecing them together, and coming out with this. I can safely say if this movie wasn't as simplistic as what it was, I would of hated it. Badly. The story, and or the film was also horrible when it came to thrills, and scares. Constant, uneventful jump scares were thrown, and "thrilling" parts of this film were mediocre tries. Resulting in a failure, or in this case another massive blow to the film.Finally, this movie was an "Eh - Eh" deal. It was entertaining, and pretty much simplistic .. besides the story. But other then that, this film wasn't THAT bad. But it still suffered a massive blow, sinking it completely. I'd recommend it! .. If your extremely bored, and have nothing else to do. But honestly, it's sad to see some great elements go to waste in this clichéd movie blow.