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The Shallows is a REALLY well constructed thriller. Blake Lively gives a good performance and the film does a great job of maintaining a sense of dread throughout.
With all of that said, I keep seeing people say "It's not realistic" but then praising Jaws. Jaws is no doubt an amazing movie, but it is not at all realistic. A shark sticking around one beach and then continually stalking a single boat for multiple days?? How is that acceptable but a shark stalking a continuously bleeding woman stuck on a rock for around a day is too much? Some of you are serious hypocrites.
With all of that said, I keep seeing people say "It's not realistic" but then praising Jaws. Jaws is no doubt an amazing movie, but it is not at all realistic. A shark sticking around one beach and then continually stalking a single boat for multiple days?? How is that acceptable but a shark stalking a continuously bleeding woman stuck on a rock for around a day is too much? Some of you are serious hypocrites.
Let me start off by saying that Mark Hamill is quite good as Chucky and the new take on the character is refreshing. This however leads into one of two big problems with the film.
The first problem is that the movie is called "Child's Play". This is a very big problem because the film is different enough from the 1988 original that the creators clearly could have changed some names and minor plot details and had the movie stand on its own merits. Seeing how they didn't do that, the movie suffers quite a bit from the problem of being too different from the original to be considered a remake and too similar to be viewed as an individual movie.
The largest problem with this movie is the humor. The film features a LOT of jokes and attempts at dark humor but the problem with this is that it distracts too much from the horror which means nothing ends up being scary. Every scene that attempts to scare the audience is capped off with some one liner or visual gag that ruins the atmosphere. The biggest offenders in this case is Andy's friends. The way the actors portray them is incredibly cartoonish and unrealistic and ends up taking me out of the scene whenever they are around.
Other than these two (albeit large) issues, the film is quite entertaining. The villain is good enough and the dynamic between Andy and Karen is quite sweet. Another thing that stood out was the fantastic score which enhanced the mood whenever it was heard.
Overall, "Child's Play" (2019) is an entertaining summer blockbuster that has some intense and scary scenes and a very good villain but unfortunately suffers from an overabundance of humor that never quite seems to land and two characters that distract from the film every time they enter a scene.
The first problem is that the movie is called "Child's Play". This is a very big problem because the film is different enough from the 1988 original that the creators clearly could have changed some names and minor plot details and had the movie stand on its own merits. Seeing how they didn't do that, the movie suffers quite a bit from the problem of being too different from the original to be considered a remake and too similar to be viewed as an individual movie.
The largest problem with this movie is the humor. The film features a LOT of jokes and attempts at dark humor but the problem with this is that it distracts too much from the horror which means nothing ends up being scary. Every scene that attempts to scare the audience is capped off with some one liner or visual gag that ruins the atmosphere. The biggest offenders in this case is Andy's friends. The way the actors portray them is incredibly cartoonish and unrealistic and ends up taking me out of the scene whenever they are around.
Other than these two (albeit large) issues, the film is quite entertaining. The villain is good enough and the dynamic between Andy and Karen is quite sweet. Another thing that stood out was the fantastic score which enhanced the mood whenever it was heard.
Overall, "Child's Play" (2019) is an entertaining summer blockbuster that has some intense and scary scenes and a very good villain but unfortunately suffers from an overabundance of humor that never quite seems to land and two characters that distract from the film every time they enter a scene.