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The story was good but the making and direction is crap. The story progress is very clumsy. There are others shortcomings which make this brilliant concept a horrible amateur work. the reasons will be.

1. the acting is horrible and inconsistent. sometimes they are funny, sometimes they are serious without any reason, sometimes they are very emotional in a very bad time. And everyone in this story is stupid. literally everyone, except the Hannah and Sloppy. the principle, the mom, the aunt, our hero, his idiot friend, specially the cops they all are bunch of idiots.

2. our Hero makes friendship with the geek boy in the first day of school.

3. R.L. Stine keeps the deadly books in a shelf for display.

4. locked book opens up without any key, just by dropping off.

5. the art direction, background score, expressions, and voice acting makes you confused whether its a fantasy comedy or real horror film. Sometimes its serious, sometimes it tries to be funny.

6. our hero and his buddy fall in love in a really weird time.

7. when the students tried to protect the school from invasion they put up worthless barricade without locking doors.

8. we don't know how aunt Lorraine and R.L. Stine fell in serious love, how the frozen people were rescued.

9. at first it seems that R.L. Stine has the power of creating real monsters, then we come to know that actually the typewriter has the power, R.L. Stine is meaningless. and also the very powerful typewriter is also on display so that horrible things can happen very easily.

10. the portion where our hero and R.L. Stine talk about the reality about Hannah, the acting and emotions are totally out of the context. the tried get emotional which is actually became annoying.

11. at beginning we came to know that there is a matter of range for sucking the monsters back in the book, but at the end we learn that range doesn't matter.

12. R.L. Stine can't write with broken fingers but he can drive.

I don't understand how this film got so much high rating in Rotten tomatoes.

I don't know if there is a huge politics in Hollywood. But these film should get better rating. I mean films like Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner, amazing spider-man can get serious good rating when all these are actually crap. I need to be clear this is not an outstanding film, but you will enjoy it. it has a convincing plot, unique concept in case of aliens, and an interesting twist. the cinematography could be better, sometimes story progress could be fast and some other case. But you will enjoy the film. I didn't felt that I have wasted my time on this film like others mentioned above. the finishing tells us that they are planning on making a sequel. I am really waiting to see that. I want to say out loud, go to hell katniss everdeen. time for some real young adult, science fiction film.

I don't know about the critics but I love this film. the quality of action, and filmography is really great. I also loved the way its story progresses and gradually develop each character. also the dialogs between Jake and his coach is thoughtful. the interesting part of this film is that each moment is enjoyable, not for a single moment I felt that it is going slow. I loved the screenplay and the message that everyone has their own fight, you must carry on the struggle. the final action scene is really awesome and it gives us the message about having peace in the mind. The ultimate message that the film provides us is we can't hide from our problems we need to face those and fight. Finally the ending scene left me with an awe. I love this film. I am really surprised to see this that the film got poor feedback from critics who can praise films like "hunger games" so heart-fully