Une offrande à la tempête

Do not expect more than that. The first two movies were good, this one is only ok. It's a pity though... It had a lot of potential.

The story is about some cult and murders of infants for sacrifice. I expected some mysterious or supernatural development in the movie, but it turns out to contain none, or at least I couldn't see. So it turns out to be just an ordinary crime movie without any surprises. It's ok to watch it but you won't miss anything if you do not.

But different than the first movie. More dark and disturbing. Still entertaining and suspenseful.

I, like a lot of other folks, are suckers for modern-day detective thrillers especially those from Europe. Nordic noir is one of my favourite genres as well as Asian and American if it's done right. "Offering the Storm", unfortunately, was a weak cloer to its trilogy. Where the heroine was stoic and strong in the first two, here she's just a blubbering mess of emotions, crying when her toenails get stubbed, or crying when a cat falls out of a tree. I'm being facetious, but my goodness, if you're a detective, DEAL with tragedies head on, not whimper like a soulless moron who'd never seen blood before. Other than that, the movie was shot well and filled with ample twists and turns. Recommended? only if you don't mind seeing supposedly strong characters fall flat on their face whenever it rains. smh

The Baztan trilogy is packed full of unusual happenings, murders and unexplainable events. I believe viewers were excited to see some of the unsolved mysteries come to a climax that would bring closure. Unfortunately, this is not the case at all! After hours of watching the characters get pushed to the limit, enduring horrific life-threatening circumstances and even some cryptic elements, we get cheated out of some answers.

Offering to the Storm holds one's attention with similar tactics that we see in the first two films. It's basically a fast pace crime drama with multiple twists and turns that loom over our main character pushing her to the brink. In the end, the villain turns out to be exactly who everyone thought it was, yet the writer took a very unsatisfying route. I honestly believe the characters, the film and the entire trilogy fall apart during the last half our. The last scene is so open-ended that it feels like there could be another sequel. That's a problem because a franchise has to have one element to keep a fanbase........interesting characters. This is especially true concerning the protagonist. Unfortunately she's just not very intriguing.

I enjoyed the first film, The Invisible Guardian, and was surprised that a certain someone wasn't revisited in the other films. I will not be viewing any of these a second time.