Milwood

Where do I begin? So bad...let me count the ways...

I wasted an hour and a half on this horrible movie. No one can act, nothing makes sense, you don't know what the point is, none of it is realistic.

Oy vey! Run away!

First of all, let me say that this movie is terrible. Really REALLY bad. The camera work is pedestrian, the acting is scraping the bottom of the barrel. The kid was the only decent actor in the movie. The dialog is truly ridiculous at points, and the details propelling the plot forward don't make any sense. This is further confounded by the way the time line jumps around, making for a movie that lurches along like a wounded animal. The story, at its core, is good, and the movie could have been truly great had it been made by entirely different people. Using haunting as a metaphor for the true horrors that are frequently faced by orphaned children, and ward B as a symbol of the powerlessness of children who are designated wards of the state, could have been crafted into a truly poignant, moving, and ultimately unforgettable work of cinematography, but, unfortunately, this clumsy attempt at that, fails in every way. If Scorsese had made this film, it would have been a masterpiece.

This movie is so bad. They changed the name to the orphanage and it's just horrible. I felt like I was watching a junior college project filmed in a dorm. Nothing good about this movie at all. I feel like the name was changed so that people might accidentally rent it thinking it's the horror classic of the same name. I wish I could have that 97 minutes of my life back. The camera work was weird, The acting was weird, The dialogue was weird. This review might be weird but the movie was such a train wreck it made me feel weird. What were the film makers thinking? Were they high or are they retarded? I fee that they might be all three. I feel bad for the kid who starred in this rubbish.

This is a really poor effort. Within five minutes I could tell it was going to be bad but I stuck with it until the end. OK, I admit that I did skip a couple of chapters towards the end of the DVD and this did help matters. It has the feel of a school project about it and feels very low key. The story is just terrible as this is one of those films that you expect to get better and it doesn't. I picked this up for a £1 and I feel I was robbed.

The boy is OK but certainly not great and the movie just fails completely as a whole. What is the reason that the institution to treat the kids like they do? It's never explained. Avoid.

Flat story, acting, everything! Steer clear of this monstrosity.