So much average

Sick Product of a Sick System

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Lukas' headmaster should have been played by Christopher Walken.Adam Scott is a shoo-in for when they make 'Steven Gerrard- My Score-y'Evangeline Lilly keeps me warm on lonely dark evenings. This film is silly but achieves what it sets out to do, namely amuse and poke fun at The Omen-type creepy child films. There was a moment where I feared it'd decanted into full mawkish sentimentality but it just about avoided it.

This movie is probably meant to be humorous and a bit satirical. Perhaps it´s also meant to be filled with clichès and stereotypes. However, I didn´t really enjoy this. In my opinion, when horror and humor team up together, it makes for the worst movies. Horror and humor alone are generally mediocre movies, so mixing them together really doesn´t work for me.

It's a parody of the "evil child" cinema horror genre. It's also meant to be a comedy. It misses the mark entirely on both counts. A few might enjoy a chuckle or two but what we have is BAD, My honorable ex thought things we "serious" throughout this film. In fact, it so bad it made my ex-husband chuckle once...and I divorced that half-wit humorless bastard for a reason. He's +! stupid. SFX... pretty good. "Al Camino" also made me chuckle. Instilling a nice message amidst a stanking landfill of already-done-tropes... pretty good. Plainly sensible people, avoid this.Also, avoid single mom's, I've been warning folks they're dangerous,

The current rating seems a little unfair to me. Sure, there's a lot that's soft and undercooked in this flick, but it's not unfunny, and the premise alone, as well as how far it's willing to go with it, should win it some extra points. The flick has enough surprises, laughs, and strong, clear-eyed direction to make it worth a slack night's viewing.Eli Craig's got a knack for making horror/comedy out of big ideas. "Tucker & Dale vs. Evil" is essentially a horror film about bigotry and false perceptions of the other, and here Craig's made a light-hearted, but still relatively rich, riff on the horrors of being a step-father who's trying to connect with an emotionally distant child. All of that is to be commended, and I intend to keep following Craig's output.Still, I get it, the son is essentially a non-character, more like a prop, really; there's zero chemistry between Evangeline Lilly and Adam Scott; and for a movie about relationships, it's pretty lazy when it comes to actually depicting the way people in those relationships act toward's one another. It could have really gone for it, the way "This is the End" went for it, but it didn't, it chose mush over metal in its overall approach, so go in expecting pretty light fare.But honestly, it's better than most of the made for Netflix movies.(Okja is an outlier)