Trick

Super cheesy but I really enjoyed this movie. But there's def worse movies. I didn't have high expectations going into it. Pretty gory. Lots of deaths. I'll put this below lumberjack man. People are way to critical with their reviews. It's not a movie that tries to be serious or tries to be a hit. Just is a fun over the top horror serial killer movie. Shesh just learn to be open minded and have fun with it. I give the people reviewing a 1 for being boring over critical reviewers and the movie a 6 for keeping me entertained

Ok, so the kills were done quite well and Omar Epps is always good for the money. However the camera, editing and direction are woeful, angles, interaction and the rest of the cast are terrible. It must have been on an experimental day/week etc.

I had some hope for "Trick", it being a Halloween themed movie and directed by Patrick Lussier, whose "Drive Angry" is one of my guilty pleasures. Sadly, "Trick" tricked me & turned out to be a bad substandard movie, and not the so-bad-it's-good type.

It took only a few minutes to understand that it's not going to be a great ride and it took an hour for me to give up and check how much of the runtime there's left. "Trick" is an extremely flat and dull horror flick, it will very likely fail to raise any emotions in you and will maybe mildly entertain you. Then again, I can see how "Trick" qualifies for dumb fun. For me it wasn't fun, mostly just dumb. At least half of the plot details, some of the character design and their actions are unrealistic, awkward and, at the worst, irritating. The pacing is actually pretty fast, it's just that the happenings on screen are not very engaging. It doesn't help that the ending twists can be predicted easily as well. Acting's okay, but it doesn't even matter on the background of all the flaws. The killer is seriously dull. Even technically "Trick" is boring, lighting is all the same, doesn't matter if it's day or night, a lot of the camera work (during the uninspired action sequences) looks like a complete overkill & even the original score is cheap and cliche. One thing I think we all hoped for is that there's at least some awesome kills - well, that's not the case. The kills are mostly all the same, unimpressive & not very creative. You know, even Tom Atkins didn't save this movie.

If I'm grasping at straws "Trick" does have two minor qualities - near the end the already n-th unrealistic plot moves made me laugh a bit, it's kinda hilarious. And the other quality is it simply being a halloween themed movie. It offers no treats though. My rating (and it's generous): 3/10.

The first half of this movie is decently good relative to the budget. The quality in the second half of the movie drops off exponentially as it runs. The movie then commits suicide by dragging the ending out to ridiculous lengths.

Half way through the movie - 6 3/4 way through the movie - 5 Interminable ending - 3

All considered, this movie is a ~4

For this genre, slasher/horror, I guess it's an okay movie. There will never be gems in this genre and this one isn't one either, but it's watchable if you like a bit of gore and a dumb mindless story. Because that's what it basically is, a vilain that looks like he can't be killed or injured, a bunch of cops that outdumb each other constantly, a whole bunch of bad decisions, mixed with a lot of slashing and blood, and you get Trick. Too bad there are so much dumb scenes otherwise it could have been better.