Lured

How dumb can someone be? All signs pointed to no from the beginning of his travels. A want to be horror movie maker yet every horror sign he ignored or didn't even recognize. His reactions were unbelievable, his choices dumb, and his reasoning non existent. Plus his acting was worse than a child's at all times. Perfect put you to sleep movie.

I think a high school film club can do better than this lol I finished it so it i guess it's not that bad. The story needs a lil something and the audience was spoon-fed too much. The ending shot/scene was ummmm cringy.

Firstly - if you're not a fan of found footage movies, then don't watch, obviously. But if you like found footage movies (like I do), then you'll enjoy this film. The movie has obvious budgetary limitations, which explains the ghosts' makeup; and the acting in this movie is poor. In addition, the characters perform some straight up dumb actions. Nonetheless, the movie offers some decent scares, the setting is creepy, and the pacing is good enough to hold your interest from start to finish.

It's not a bad premise; an American world traveller treks to meet an Asian girl he's been chatting up for six months.

Something is definitely off with her, but our male protagonist comes off as creepy-as in a creeper-creepy. His "acting" is terrible, I tried, but I couldn't like him at all.

The make-up on the scary actors is so, so terrible. An eight year old could have done a better job with those Halloween kits sold at grocery stores.

It's lame. I realize it's an Indy low budget attempt, but come on, try a little...

I gave it two stars because it could have been something pretty good had there been a better director, artists and actors (except Lei Wang as Kate she, at least, tried). Decent idea, very poorly executed.

Well, I will say that the storyline idea here in "Lured" was pretty good, and writer and director Dawei Lee definitely had some very interesting aspects that was brought into the storyline and the movie. However, the movie was just so predictable that you knew exactly what was going on not even one-quarter into the movie.

And I must admit that the predictability of the movie was something that ruined the overall entertainment of the movie. And I think if the storyline had offered more surprises and if director Dawei Lee had opted to keep the audience in the dark, then "Lured" would have been a much more impactful and entertaining movie all together.

Because the storyline was so predictable, it felt like the movie never really spanned out at it was supposed to, especially since it felt like I was always one step ahead of the storyline.

In fact, the movie was adequately entertaining for the first two-thirds, then it just slipped down a slope and because sort of laughable and ridiculous, and the movie never really managed to get back up and over that slope.

Lei Wang, whom played Kate in "Lured", was the driving force behind this movie, as she really carried the majority of the movie with her individual performance. There isn't a whole lot of characters to relate to in "Lured" - in fact there are essentially only two characters that you have to relate to. So of course the pressure to carry the movie was left up to Jeff Gonek (playing Jason) and Lei Wang (playing Kate).

For a horror movie then "Lured" was just a stroll through the park, as writer and director Dawei Lee seemed to be following a how-to-make-a-horror-movie script to the point. Hence the predictability of the outcome. And it wasn't really a movie that was crammed with overly scary things. Nay, "Lured" was more of a supernatural thriller.

Visually then "Lured" was pretty low key. Don't expect an abundance of special effects that will bedazzle you, and you will be okay. Whatever little effects were in the movie were practical effects, and they weren't all that impressive. They worked out as intended, for sure, but they weren't impressive.

"Lured" is a movie that is adequate for a single viewing if you have nothing better to watch at hand and find yourself in for a quick fix of a supernatural thriller.

My rating of the 2019 movie "Lured" lands on a very bland and mediocre five out of ten stars.