video review : Prisoners

video review : Prisoners

The premise is engaging. Two kids go missing during a Thanksgiving dinner. The fear is a kidnapping with the probability of the girls being raped and killed. Such an outcome could make for a poignant movie, but director Denis Villeneuve would rather cater to the morals of its audience thus realism is overshadowed by silly unlikelihoods. The actions of Keller Dover; the father of one of the girls; are particularly outrageous.

my rating : 3 of 5

2013

a map of the United States

a map of the United States

video review : Night Of The Living Dead

video review : Night Of The Living Dead

What’s missing from the title is that The Living Dead are also murderous predators who want nothing more than to eat the flesh of their prey; undead people. It’s the gloomy doomy plot that makes it thrilling.

The ghouls stumble about slowly and are fragile enough to push out of the way, but there’s strength in numbers, so a boarded-up house in Pennsylvania is only the safest place until there are enough of them to break in.

my rating : 5 of 5

1968

video review : Dawn Of The Dead