If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Well, i do love the movie, but not a kind of movie i will watch twice. The movie was captivating. The acting, the cinematography, the ambience, all is packed in a great way. Even the plot-jumping will not confuse the audience. But i give the score 7 stars out of 10 because the climax is not climax. The story is about a mother, Eva, who has no bond with her son, Kevin, but it's not written why. From the first time Kevin were born, Eva seems stressful. Perhaps she's not ready, or she just doesn't know how to handle baby because she was not expecting him. But we can't say that Eva hates him instead Kevin does. In fact, as the time goes, all we know that Eva keeps trying to love her son, but Kevin hates her still. It is obvious from the way Kevin looks at her, his behaviour is always against her, his manipulating act in front of his father, and he doesn't want his mother happy. One time when Eva tried to teach and play with Kevin, Kevin did something that made Eva lost her patience, and threw Kevin against the wall and broke his arm. Instead of crying, Kevin just looked Eva in hateful. But Kevin kept his revenge plan only for himself, telling it was his fault that broke his arm to the doctor and to his father. But later, he used the scar to threaten his mother.Eva knows something is wrong with Kevin, but everytime Eva tries to talk to her husband, he keeps thinking Eva is exaggerating.When Kevin's sister, Celia, is born and she is the reason for Eva to be happy, Kevin starts to show some violence act, like killing Celia's pet and injuring Celia's eye. This one scene is the first point i feel disappointed. A big hole when they didn't show what happened to Celia's eye, the scene jumped into a time where Eva and her husband sit in a hospital outside Celia's room without telling what has happened. Only after they're having dinner with Kevin and Eva confronts him that Eva will lose her eye because he didn't look after her. If we do not read the book, or the reference, we would not know that it is apparently Kevin poured some cleaner to Celia's eye.The story keeps growing about how Eva and Kevin's relationship as mother and son is not going well, even when Eva keeps trying to have a bond with her son by having a quality time together. But Kevin keeps ruining it. He did all what he had done only to resent his mother.And then when Kevin finally commit the massacre of his school friend, which is supposed to be the climax, i just got more disappointed. Not only they didn't show the massacre -only the bodies after- but a big plot hole here. How on earth did Kevin gather all of the living victims to the hall and make them as a target for his archery skill? By sedating and dragging them? Or by inviting them? Did he tied them onto the wall? Why didn't they fight back? I mean, the victim is not only one and some of them are not helpless women/men. I can not answer it. And that big plot hole ruins a beautiful and brilliant-themed movie that makes me decide to give only 7 score.

You probably wouldn't expect a '7' rating from my title. In my opinion if a film can make you feel any strong emotion, it's done it's job. This film, although I'd never sit and watch it again - for reasons that will become apparent after seeing it - had me squirming in my chair and almost always on the edge of my seat. It leaves you with an uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach and will have you thinking about it for a while.Big props to Ezra Miller in this; every scene he's in you feel on edge. The first time I saw him was in 'Perks Of Being A Wallflower' where he plays a completely different and nearly opposite character. His performance is chilling and didn't get as much recognition as Tulsa Swinton for this film.

I thought I was going to be watching an Omen type typical horror movie. Couldn't really tell from the wardrobe and the way cars and things looked what year it was...looked like it took place in the 90's since no one ad a smart phone at any point.Anyway....I digress.... LOL. Overall I found the movie entertaining. Some questions weren't answered. The pacing had me super anxious for the story to unfold...what the hell was up with Kevin??? What did he do? The soundtrack was unsettling to a little annoying. There were no jumpscares or horror movie music which I now realize is an easy hat trick that helps me sense what's about to happen or take note of something. Aside from random folk songs here and there the movie is utterly quiet.OK...so spoiler time.At some point in the film i'm like okay... When TF are they going to have the "we need to talk about Kevin" conversation???? And then I laughed to myself,.....and thought..."ah-ha! never happened" therein lying a huge part of the problem. One reviewer wrote, that he thought it was stupid because no child is born evil, and no parent wold have handled a child who behaved this way so poorly. I beg to differ and offer examples such as Jeffrey Dahmer who was quoted as saying, "I had a normal loving childhood, my parents are not to be blamed for what I have done....I am just evil." And don't even get me started on what could lead a child to execute any number of the mass school shootings that seem to occur monthly here in the U.S. A child, aside from being exceptionally smart, can be atypically cold, unsympathetic, calculating and cruel but the question is how? Quite frankly there is such a thing as poor parenting due to lack of experience, common sense, priorities, coping skills, selfishness, denial. Newsflash just because a person is capable of producing a child doesn't necessarily mean they should given certain circumstances.There was definitely some serious and obscure hard to pin point problems with Kevin. He wasn't autistic, but it was something not to far off like maybe Asburger's Syndrome. But his mental apple didn't fall far from its tree. When this movie ended I turned around and watched it again looking a bit closer for the answer to my unanswered questions.It was clear that the mother was not thrilled with this pregnancy. They say normally a woman glows, it is an amazing experience yada yada yada, but this clearly wasn't mommer's experience. The birthing experience didn't seem to go well at all, and immediately after Kevin's born, she appears to be suffering PPD which is common for many women after child birth. It seems while Kevin was a very tiny baby and small child mommer didn't cope well with nor ever bond with Kevin. In Kevin's defense, a baby can't have a personal vendetta against you.....or could he???? LOL.And honestly after looking at again....mommer was definitely off a little herself as far as having traits that Kevin exhibited, lack of emotion, sympathy, reluctant to communicate. No normal person could have dealt with the aftermath the way she did. Mommer completely failed Kevin as there was at no point any outreach for help, therapy or intervention of any kind and she had the money, which meant she could have easily obtained those resources for Kevin.Mommer and Kevin both resented each other. Kevin at an early age was very intelligent and calculating having the upper hand on mommer. No parent should let a child assume the role of telling the parent what to do and the parent be looking to the child direction and approval...that proved to be a huge disservice to Kevin and everyone in the wake of his final epic act of detachment.I think there are a lot of little "Kevins" brewing in today's society from a combination of any number anti-personality disorders be it from poor genetics, subjectively poor environment or poor parenting skills.The only thing I didn't quite get was why the community with the exception of one wheelchair bound kid from the neighborhood had no sympathy for mommer in the the aftermath? The story wasn't developed enough to know how the hell they knew her part in Kevin's childhood development. I mean hay, I would assume that any kid that does what Kevin enacted was somehow failed by his parents, but I don't know, maybe people would react this way?Maybe that's something we could never know unless we found themselves being in a perfect storm situation like mommer. No one really knows what it's like for the parents of these kids who have committed these types of atrocities after the 10 oclock news has moved on to the next big story. These people may still have to live in their homes, go to their jobs, deal with looks, whispers, assumptions and accusations from their neighbors and locals in the community who haven't so quickly forgotten. Especially survivors, and friends and relatives of the recently dearly departed victims.Anyway....this was definitely a march to the beat of a different drummer type film in a lot of ways, but it was and interesting piece of entertainment.

This movie is terrible to watch. A very annoying child, that never reveals any answer about his heritage of evil. For me the movie has not point in watching. I really don't understand why people would want to see this movie.