Reviews

Long story short, Kristen Stewart plays a reclusive gym manager named Lou, who not only manages to manage a gym, but also manages to not be fired in spite of treating all of its patrons horribly.

During an episode, a character named Abed was tasked with answering an impossible question in his film study class about Nicholas Cage, the question that he was posed with was whether or not Nicholas Cage was a good actor.

Every film leading up to The Strangers will either be a horror film I had never heard of, or, in the case of the Exorcist: The Beginning, a retooled version of someone elses film already completed film.

As prefaced, shark movies have never been my cup of tea, but, also, the film definitely plays more as a mainstream blockbuster than it does a sci-fi horror film.

The story line carries on from the aftermath of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, which is a smart way to keep horror fans invested year to year as they keep cranking the films out at a rapid speed, but does do a level of damage to how the film is able to stand on its own as a self-contained film.

That isnt an ungodly amount of time for a film, but its a good length for a horror film, and an incredibly long length for an Empire film, and Ill be frank, I felt it pretty hard by the end.

These characters play off each other throughout the film, butting heads and spearheading all the conflicts that arise in the film.

At the same time, I do believe the film has a rapid-fire, million-words-a-minute feeling to it, with character development sometimes left by the way side in favor of overstuffing the film with as many name-drops and cultural references as its runtime can contain.

What I expected from the film that it would be an artsy-fartsy film that eventually ends up with them all partaking in cannibalism, isnt actually what the film is about.

The film portrays the character as having a romanticized perception of what it was like in 1960s London, visualizing it with a glitz and glammed tinted lens, glamorizing what the film reveals wasnt actually a great time for everyone involved.