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It's inevitable that Robert will be compared to Chucky and Annabelle, which is probably the pitch this movie going for. Neither dolls are perfectly harrowing, but even then Robert has no right of being lined with them. The movie is strictly poorly written and acted. Characters do nothing but scream to each other, and even worse, the wife is so unsympathetically annoying she makes the movie unbearable.

You know the story already, a creepy doll talking to the kid and ruining the family. However, the worse criminal is the wife with her ear-rupturing high pitch voice. One can argue that the boy is expressionless or the husband seems detached, they are nothing compared to the terrible delivery of the wife. She literally screeches and shouts the entire movie, it's a torture beyond what the family has to deal with on-screen. It's like hearing dying animal every five minutes.

Plot doesn't go beyond the typical "who did it" theme and the paranoid wife. It move so horribly slow, when it hits one hour mark it only tells stuff other movies had done in half the span. The horror itself consists of poor editing worse than old stop footage movie. It feels amateurish at best and completely ruins the thrill, which barely exists in the first place.

When an inanimate object with creepy face plastered on it has better screen presence than the character, you know you're in for a terrible ride.

I dont know if it was just me or did the Robert doll sort of look like Willem Dafoe? Great movie to watch on a 2X or 4X speed it makes the show more entertaining.

I don't normally write film reviews but feel like I owe it to potential watchers of this movie to write one.

First of all, the people that gave this movie 7/8 put of 10.. have you ever actually seen a decent horror movie?!

The acting if you can call it that was beyond terrible. Literally painful and cringey to watch. Felt like they were all auditioning for a commercial or something.

This could have been so much better had they used decent actors and a slightly bigger budget. Also did anyone notice that the movie was filmed inside a hotel?! Nothing about the movie felt genuine and I didn't expect much from the movie but didn't realize it would be this bad!

Please save yourselves the time and watch a proper horror movie instead. 'The Boy' for example is a great doll horror with a great twist.

I'm no stranger to bad scripts and stupid characters in horror films, but this film had me thinking it was written on bring your kid to work day.

The Wife is an emotional mess that will believe anything, the son shows hardly any emotion towards anything that happens, the husband is a stereotypical 'my wife is crazy but I'll play along' guy... the only character that's worth being in the film is Robert, and he's hardly in it!

Every scene had me re-evaluating what I considered a bad movie, which is a shame considering the potential it had; great graphics, a brilliant killer doll story, set in England. But alas it just wasn't to be, with the women all shown to be weak, the men being imbeciles and the doll practically not even doing anything most of the time (the film focuses on the poorly written Wife).

If you like bad movies get this one, but if you're looking for something decent to watch for whatever reason, steer clear of this film like it'll give you Bubonic Plague.

Brought this film because I'm into haunted object stories and the story of Robert the doll is a good one. However this film is massively disappointing. Stilted, wooden acting and continuity mistakes mean that it's more of a comedy than a horror. The doll is more like a ventriloquist's doll than the actual doll which is scary as hell. The woman playing the mother isn't really believable as a person, the father is every man role cliché imaginable and the child is unconvincing and lacklustre. Overall they have taken a brilliant story and turned it into 90 minutes of boring, badly acted rubbish. Don't waste your time.

Beginning with an obvious rip-off from 'Annabelle', the story orbits the hard-to-like character: wife and mother Jen. Pathetically fragile, self-involved, demanding, and laden with First-World problems - a victim before the film even begins.

The actress turns in a good performance but some poor choices were made with the portrayal. With it being so difficult to get on-side with her, any suspense is lost in favour of sadistic hope.

The child actor is nearly as wooden as the doll. It's distracting, whenever he has a line we're reminded that "this is a movie". It fails as a horror with more unintended laughs than scares.

This film is really slow. Supposed to be scary, bugs bunny is scarier. Acting is terrible, there doesn't really seem to be a plot. Guessthe were trying to cash in on the Annebelle phenomenon. This has to be in the top 5 of the worst movies I've ever seen and I've seen some really really bad films. I had to watch to the end to see if it got any better, but believe me it didn't.

I came across this movie while I was looking on Netflix, and the sheer quality looked so good I knew I needed to check it out. Absolutely no regrets, this is my new favourite film. The whiny mum is a brilliant actress (I don't know why she didn't win an Oscar) I was so hyped by this intriguing storyline (a woman has a bad marriage and always complains) that seeing Robert was awe-inspiring. Robert is a girl boss, little more has to be said about his ravishing appearance and little quirks. The way he moves always brings "hips don't lie" by Shakira into my head; the fluid, realistic movement puts any other creepy doll movie to shame. Im a fifty year old man, this movie gave me nightmares for weeks. The camera skills a brilliant, the highlights were of course the random zoom ins of robert''s gorgeous face and the drunklike swaying that really gives a perception of the struggles of being short. The storyline was so original, all tied together by the terrifying way Robert kills his victims. I would recommend this movie to anyone who loves horror and Robert, or random men who are often depicted coming out the toilet or going into the bath. If I could give it 11 stars, I would, because Robert deserves every single star, no film has been able to reach the scariness of Robert. A must see, very deserving of the amazing sequels, the people around me were overjoyed to discover there were 4 more Robert films. Your life is not complete without this film.

I have to be fair to the filmmakers for at least making the effort to prop up a silly story with solid characters and decent atmosphere. The husband and wife in the film have heavy duty problems and their relationship plays like something out of Eastenders rather than a horror film at times. But considering how dumb most characters are in these kind of films it was refreshing to see characters which aren't stupidly clichéd. The doll itself looks quite creepy although the plot is too far fetched to buy the true story claim touted on the DVD cover. the actors rescued some credibility for the story with their performances and I found it to be a decent enough watch.

6/10

This movie makes "Chucky" look like "Lawrence of Arabia." Definitely choose something else. You could actually make a drinking game out of spotting plot holes and continuity problems. It feels like a feature length student project. Also, why does the boy's bedroom seem as though it is inside the hall closet?

My 12 year old daughter tore this one to shreds, and although we will never get the 2 hours back after watching this bore-fest, it was fun picking it apart. She spotted a camera operator in one of the mirrors in one scene. We got a few good laughs out of it. Actually, the end of the second act is hilarious.

On second thought, if you look at this as a comedy, it bumps it up t about a 6.5/7 point movie. So, it's all subjective. Enjoy!

The first thing to note is the acting. Honestly, it was so terrible that I could barely concentrate on what was going on in the film. I was genuinely repulsed by how pathetic it was.

Second of all, the doll that Robert is based on looks absolutely nothing like this one. As it is based on a true story, you would at least expect them to know what the doll looks like! It was like looking at a doll from a different story entirely.

But, the most important thing to note is just how lame the horror is. It's never good when you watch a horror movie and spend the whole time laughing at how terrible it is. The death scenes look like something out of a comedy in which the acting is deliberately bad for effect.

I spent £3 on this DVD from ASDA, and it was such a waste of money even at this small price! Please, don't waste your time watching this poor excuse for a movie.

Yes, it is sad, but true. Acting was awful, the doll was a better actor than the cast. There were too much moments of uncomfortably silence, when an actor ended a line, the camera still showing actor's expression for a couple of seconds, a waste of time. The idea was good, but the movie was sadly bad. The ending is not bad at all, but this is one of these movies that you must watch alone in your room because you don't want to bore your friends.

The original history could be better exploited.

Best wishes and, though it was bad for me, thank you for the movie, it is a work and there is time from everyone on it.

I love this movie. Everything was perfect. I loved the fact you could see crew members in the mirror. The way Robert the doll moved and overall the acting.

My favorite part was when Robert said: "its robert time!" and then roberted all over the place, it was such amazing storywriting.

I was thrilled to read there are 4 more movies based on this character. Can't wait to watch them all. I will recommend this movie to everyone i know. If you like horror or have someone in your life named Robert you will love this movie!!

Andrew thanks for making this masterpiece. Your movie must have made a robillion dollars! You should be proud.

First, the low ratings for this film are very unfair, this one is a low budget and it is the first in the franchise so you must expect few goofs here and there! I don't know why people rate and review indie film with the mentality of a blockbuster ?! It's unfair on every aspect.

The acting was good although I believe the kid role should've went for a bit younger kid, I really liked the movie and I don't believe it was slow at all like someone said yet it had some drama which I find OK since they wanted to give it based on actual events feeling, regardless of few ideas that I had while watching for a well established scares here and there but the movie was better than most low budget movies from every angle! if you expect a "slash and dash" from the beginning to the end then go for an 80s movie, This movie was over all well based, well balanced and had some cool thrilling moments.

Jesse Reviews.

This is really bad and yet very alluring, sure, acting is just terrible and the doll literally does nothing yet something just keeps you wanting to know what's going to happen in the end which by the way is worse than the movie