Apparence trompeuse

Fairly tense drama/thriller not really horror even though it's found in the horror section on Amazon. Joey King, Mireille Enos and Peter Sarsgaard are all excellent at least most the time. A great cover up story not what I expected it to be! Plays out really well for what it is!

This movie definitely deserved a much higher rating than all those godawful quick-and-cheap movies being churned out by the dozens. I thought the story was intriguing and kept me engaged throughout, the twist at the end was also well done, the photography was high quality. People who hated this film should stick to their freaking reality tv shows and shut up.

A load of rubbish. From the beginning it's one unrealistic thing after another. The parents act in unbelievably stupid ways. The girl acts in unbelievably stupid ways. That's it.

I hope the title of the review helps others like me, who go into this expecting a Blumhouse movie released in conjunction with Prime a few weeks before Halloween, to be a scary movie. Now that's put this aside

The cast do their best with this ridiculous plot, that would borderline work as a poor 25 minute episode of Inside Number 9

The writing is pretty dreadful, the direction bland and lacking much in the way of thrills The movie is glacier paced, without the script or character development to hold it up Someone needs to go back to film school - It's so bad the you will see the ending coming within minutes of the incident itself There's no attempt to even throw the viewer in the other direction

I would recommend watching the first 10 mins, then mins 58 to 60, and the last 5 minute and save yourself a precious evening you could be spending on something much more worthwhile

The inciting incident is dealt with pure and utter stupidity. Even the Lawyer character is dumb, so dumb, maybe the dumbest. When is a sociopath NOT a sociopath? When they are a stupid 15 year old. A crime drama with No Crime, until the last 7 minutes of the film. The 2 daughter characters are 15 year old morons. The ending is staggeringly stupid, and contrived. Did no one but the writer read this script before they began shooting? Or funding?