Temple

This was a film, that, yet again seemed to have the potential to have been much better. There just seemed to be too many things going on that didn't seem to be significant or didn't contribute to any conclusions. Some nice cinematography, some good music, but not the best story-line.

I had initially expected somewhat more from this horror movie, and I must admit that I was rather disappointed with the overall result of what the movie turned out to be.

The story told in "Temple" was pretty straight forward, although it didn't offer anything to the horror genre that hasn't already been done or seen in other horror movies.

The movie was surprisingly devoid of anything even remotely scary or impressive, and it just lulled itself into a tranquil pace that made it lose all momentum and drive. And it didn't help much that the characters were one-dimensional drones that served no purpose. This reflected badly on the actors and actresses, as they had surprisingly little to work with. Logan Huffman actually managed to perform somewhat adequately and keep the movie afloat.

If you enjoy a good horror movie, then this joined American and Japanese effort is not the best of choices to put your time and money.

Stuff I liked about it:

• The awe of being someplace new and different was pretty well felt by the main character. It made me wish to go. That was nice.
• He seemed like a real person for a second (unlike the others).

Stuff I disliked:

• Like every horror film, every character is virtually unlikable. Why though? Don't you want us to care about them?
• Also like every horror film, whenever there's a "twist" (there really isn't), it pauses the action to replay some old scenes because they think we're too slow. I wish they'd quit with that.
• It ends so abruptly and randomly. This movie builds up with interesting details and then seemingly forgets at the last minute. They did nothing with the, uh, topic of the relationship fight, which is kind of a weird thing to write about so casually. A lot of wasted potential there. Perhaps stuff happens, but it's all left up to you to write the ending in your head.

In fact, the movie straight up tells you at the beginning that people go mad and murderous at the temple that makes people go mad and murderous. It does a decent job of making you think there's a story unraveling, but there isn't. there's honestly nothing to spoil here.

It's literally pretty good until they just decided "we're done now" and it's over. It ends awkwardly abrupt. As if they dropped the camera mid scene and just said f$%# it

Its pretty bad.

Temple isn't scary, suspenseful nor is it interesting, and its probably one of the worst movies of the year.

Its quite a messy movie, its all over the place in terms of storytelling and tone. It doesn't even feel like a complete movie, just when you think something interesting may happen the movie ends abruptly, which is a relief considering how painfully awful it is.

Boring, uninteresting, predictable and absurd.