Final Girl

This is a terrible film. Not bad. Terrible.

I have seen about 60 films from 2015.. maybe more. Right now this is the worst one that I've seen.

Never have I seen a film that seemed so disinterested in telling me anything about how or why these people are who they are. The backstories are non-existent. We care nothing for these characters. The writing is awful. And in the end - you just have to ask yourself "why".

I just can't grasp how any film-maker would want to release such an incomplete mess of a film. It's really a bit disrespectful to the viewers if you ask me. You plop down in the middle of these characters lives, and there's seemingly a ton of potentially interesting material that put them where they are... you get NOTHING.

The end is a mess too.

The film feels like the last 10 minutes of a stage play you walked in on. A bunch of crap that you don't know why is going-on, only in this case it wouldn't have mattered if you had sat through he first 85 minutes because the film gave you NOTHING!

Worse than Pixels, worse than anything else this year...

You got me Final Girl... You got me;).. Breslin... stylish looking trailer... you got me.

Trash! 33/100.

Go rent the very average Final GirlS instead... it's not great, but it's an Oscar contender next to this junk.

Pass... don't say I didn't warn you.

The final girl. All can be sum up to that title. And I find it remarkable. For a movie to be summarized in a three word sentence. If you've seen the trailer, and know the title, then it is all of it. You haven't really miss much. And so without further ado, I dub thee, this movie a wasted bit on the net. You can continue to read and give chance to justify my case. Some might have been impressed by the trailer, for I am one of them, the music and the cut of scene to scene surely seems impressive. The chase and the fight screens shown on the trailer was quite misleading to the quality of the movie, but I'm sure of my judgement in this.

20 seconds walking, 3 minutes talking of small talking, and a variety of pauses, and breathing. It was dragging, in a non exciting sort of way. Taking time for the predictable, the girl and killers in a chase. There was really no weaving, no curving, just straight to the end. Predictable.

The girl I believe is an orphan. Taken and trained for a purpose of defeating the evil. Then after an hour and fourteen minutes, wow. I thought I could get more about the story but there really is nothing else. I can't tell the ending of this movie but I have a feeling 99.99% population can already guess what it would be.

Maybe I can add a bit of the story... Nope. Can't find it if it isn't really there.

During the races to the death, the hiding from killers, the soundtrack, I'll admit, is good. Boom, Baam. Sure, the music is good, but really, if the scenes does not complement the music, then I'm afraid, even Mozart or Beethoven can't help this movie be better.

There were stylish though. In tuxedos and dresses no matter where they go. I mean all of them. All. Unrealistically everyone. Well, not the background people for it would be a fantasy of some kind but just those involved in the story. I had the impression they were dressed from some prom but after nights, nope, not at at all. The scenery and background was dull but kind of beautiful. Certainly, it would be so if the shots were great mountain and forest, and lake scenery.

I was bored. No surprise there. It would be a sin to tell you otherwise. Some may find this movie enjoyable? Though I doubt many would. The actors and actresses do have some name to show for.

As I'm reading, the director Tyler Shields is a photographer and this is his directorial debut.

Well, it shows in both counts. This movie (?) has a direction of photography with extremely bright lights and hard shadows projected on the walls which give a dreamy nightmare-ish feel to the movie. And it is most certainly a "debut" because the director isn't sure about what is doing and how to reach out to the audience.

Abigail Breslin is a girl meant to lure a gang of teenage sociopaths who are killing dozens of young girls in their small community. In a trend that is revived nowadays (summer 2015) the girl is a hardened martial arts specialist trained by an unknown man who lost his wife and daughter. (There is a trend showing tough kids again. Just saw Big Game, Hardly Lethal etc.).

Anyway in terms of entertainment this movie fails to deliver. It may capture you in the beginning. To see the young girl get back to those boys, but the actual scenes are uninteresting.

This looks more like an experiment or a low budget student project than an actual movie. And of course the ending has nothing more to deliver.

Overall: Avoid it. Waste of time.

I saw the trailer to this and it appealed to me. I like both the main actors. They have proved they are good. But this film doesn't take long before your realise it is a little cheap. Questionable dialogue and poor cinematography.

The story is neither here or there. I have seen worse. But the way it is executed just leaves you wondering if this was a student project. The build up to the climax is clumsy and made me chuckle a few times. Abigail is a fine actress but this film did nothing to help her. She just wasn't convincing in this role. Especially if I compare next to the film: Hannah.

So in summary; Weak story, poor production, bad cinematography and failed direction that lets the actors down. Not recommended.

24 March 2016. It wasn't Abigail Breslin's fault I assume, but the script just didn't allow her to really shine in this movie. Her martial arts, well her kick-boxing skills or taking apart and putting together a weapon just weren't on par for as long as she trained for example as La Femme Nikita (1990), Elektra (2005), Hannah (2011) Daisy and Violet (2011), or Miss Meadows (2014). There was too much light in the darkened forest which was too unrealistic. As for the hallucination horror scenes, they weren't on par with such classics as The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Cell (2000), Silent Hill (2006), Black Death (2010). As a thriller, the movie did have a consistently and understandable plot, with some wry humor, and decent acting, and an atmosphere in this nevertheless predicable movie. But it could have been better.