A fun ride. The beginning 45 minutes or so was a bit slow, but I enjoyed the 70s nostalgia enough to keep involved in the story. Then, the fun began and built up to an awesome ending. Certainly a different type of movie - kind of akin to how the Blair Witch Project was so different when it came out.
Good movie. The makers tried something different and it sort of worked. With all the crap 2024 is producing, this is one of the best horror movies of 2024.
A nice and lighthearted little movie
Imagine if I told people back in 2000 that in 19 years, Todd Phillips, director and feet licker, would be a four-time Academy Award nominee and a Golden Lion winner at a prestige film festival for a movie called 'Jonker' with the guy from 'Gladiator', I think they would totally believe me.
Wowzers. There is some horrendous blackface in this that actually made me exclaim out loud...
Good acting and tone, but the mystery was just not so much interesting.
Mostly run of the mill fare but with some very solid performances that keep it afloat
Watch if you want your heart ripped out of your chest and stomped on.
The quality in Kate and Laonardo's acting is amazing. Watching them on the screen is great.
Listen..the movie is mediocre..but mannnn..there is something special about Mia Goth...make a boy sit up and beg for buttermilk
Pedro Almodovar is a twisted genius. This is like a Spanish Park Chan Wook film, although maybe Park Chan Wook films are Korean Almodovar films. Mysterious, beautiful, tense and creative. As usual Almodovar explores themes of gender, sex, patriarchy and control. The result is a dark journey with a touch of revenge. The ending wasn't as ambiguous as I'd hoped but it was a treat overall.
It was a pretty decent movie. Started out boring. With how the world is turning this movie is pretty believable
I tried to get into it and I just couldn't. I understand the artwork aspect of it and the concept, but it wasn't executed in a way that made me enjoy it.
Scarlett Johansson driving round Scotland in a transit, no I swear I'm not drunk.
This movie is very much a 90s high school rom com, but the upper tier of that genre. It’s certainly shown age, but it is still highly enjoyable to revisit. Not to mention the cast is absolutely stellar. If you haven’t seen this yet, you should give it a go!
Rating: 3.5/5 - 8/10 - Would Recommend
of all the girl in a skimpy bikini fighting a shark movies I've seen this is by far the skimpiest
Philip i miss you... Masteeeerr
Kind of predictable, kind of annoying, kind of evil...I watched it. The most difficult part to get through was the stupid teenagers. I kept hoping they would get a baseball bat through the skull. Everything else was just kind of "there". Meh.
I've never wanted to beat a child in a movie more than I wanted to beat the son, and oh boy is the daughter just as dumb.
3 Thoughts After Re-Watching ‘The Purge’:
I really like this film because it’s such an intriguing and horrifying concept. It’s a quick watch, but it’s super original. It birthed a whole franchise (albeit somewhat underwhelming) and eerie visuals that inspired a slew of Halloween masks I now see every single year.
There were missed opportunities here. And that’s always frustrating when an idea is so great. During this rewatch, I realized that much of this movie is spent walking through a dark house with a flashlight. With such a short runtime, we should’ve spent more moments getting to know these characters, especially the über-creepy leader dude who died way too quickly/easily. Very anticlimactic.
I could watch that scene where Lena Headey bashes her neighbor’s head into the table a hundred times lol. Immensely satisfying.
I didn't understand what sort of movie genre was this! Was it a comedy? Or was it something else? The movie is as confused as it's script. It's not bad. But there's nothing good at all either. You kind of feel cheated in the end.
There is a lesson about narrative tricks and overuse in here, and I think many could learn from it. Fool the audience once, that's impressive, fool them twice and you begin to push the boundaries of "clever" and tread into the realm of mild annoyance. By the third time, it's so telegraphed and predictable that you've lost all spark and also end up dulling the sharpness (heh) of the initial uses of the technique. Sharper does exactly this, and by the final hoodwink it's so obvious what it's doing that it collapses the house of cards they've built to this point. Julianne Moore's character claims to be a professional conwoman, but can't seem to see one of the most telegraphed plays in the whole movie right before her eyes? All integrity is lost, and the wrap up feels rushed and unsatisfying.
What begins as a slick, contemporary social-heist-thriller (what a mouthful) quickly devolves into a very predictable romp that doesn't feel satisyfing under the weight of the first two acts. Not a bad film by any means, but doesn't sort out the threads in the final act to jump to the 7 or 8 out of 10 territory. Fair, but could have been so much more.
This movie fucking sucks my dick.
I'd rather watch my own shit float around in the toilet than watch this fucking mess of a movie.
With some great acting and a very dark and genius humor, it falls totally apart on the credibility of the secondary characters, specially those that did not know what they were there for and did nothing.
There are so many things that I loved about this movie. I loved how clean the whole setup is - it only took about twenty minutes to give the viewer an excellent glimpse into where the movie was going and what the main conflicts are. While the girl was at the center of the story the movie really had nothing to do with the girl. The acting by everyone in the movie is absolutely top notch, especially Florence Pugh (she very much reminds me of a young Kate Winslet). Once the story was set up I was extremely curious as to how they were going to wrap it up - the resolution was amazing and did not disappoint.
I do have one last note on this movie. I am a man that embraces science and discounts religion. On the surface it seems as though this movie be a movie about science vs. religion but I think the exchange between the nurse and the nun at the end of the movie shows that the issue was not necessarily religion but fanaticism.
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Interesting plot and adequate performances and art production, yet the movie does not bring the thrils that the plot could've given, maybe because of the direction.
Nothing really new. An exorcism-movie again but with no surprises. Nice to watch but nothing must have seen.
that would never happen to me i don't visit even friends who live a subway station away
