Highly Overrated But Still Good

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Competently acted, shot, written. But it took me about ten tries to watch it in its entirety - not because it was terrifying or off-putting (which it is neither) but because it is just not that gripping or novel. It's a spirit board movie; they have been done to death, then contacted and resurrected with a spirit board, and then done to death all over again.

How did this movie get any hype at all? I had very high hopes for verónica. The story is just yet another ouija demon, so predictible throughout the whole movie, the demon was overexposed like in most horrorfilms which makes the movie not scary at all and the demons appearance isn't even scary to begin with. I recommend you don't watch it, it's a waste of time.

Veronica was directed by Paco Plaza and stars Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván Chavero and Ana Torrent.I want to start off with saying that I am a huge fan of horror. I have a deep love for the genre, but unfortunately it's rare to see a really great horror film. That's why I am even sadder to report that I didn't enjoy this movie much at all, especially after hearing all the buzz about it.So let's start with the pros first. Sandra Escacena is absolutely fabulous as Veronica and delivers a very grounded and nuanced performance as does Ana Torrent. There is also a nun character played by Consuelo Trujillo who I also thought was very good. The movie is very good looking but unfortunately the story doesn't deliver, which leads me into my negatives.The structure of the story sucks any suspense that could be created out of the film. The opening of the film literally spells out how the film is going to end. Some of the other kids performances are very off and on for me as well. In one scene they are able to deliver the right amount of dread and fear while in some other scenes they can be very stale.Now I am a score guy, I really love film scores so much so that I listen to nothing else. And while the music here is pretty good, the film chooses to place very bombastic music under scenes that would otherwise be very suspenseful thus sucking any suspense that was there out of it.But my biggest flaw with this film is that towards the end the character of Veronica makes such a stupid decision that I immediately lost any sympathy that I had for her because she places the people she swore to protect in danger.So to sum it up: It's a pretty movie, it's an overall well-acted film. But it's the story that really turned me off. The film is available on Netflix it you want to give it a shot but I would not recommend it.

I was so excited to watch this because of the dumb --obviously fake---- news article about how it was the scariest movie ever and Netflix users had to turn it off in the middle. Ugh. Don't fall for the hype. This is a very AVERAGE scary movie. I give it 7 stars because 1) it has a story that kinda makes sense 2) Catholic schools with blind nuns and basements are creepy 3) the little boy in the movie is fricking adorable 4) I love foreign movies 5) Ouja boards are scary. DO NOT mess with them 6) full Monty ghost was creepy 7) special effects were pretty convincing. Somehow, I fell asleep at the very end of the movie. So, I have no idea how it ended. It wasn't that scary.