mikekearn

...But it certainly tries to be. Having seen some of these actors perform far better in other roles, it's obvious that the direction and leadership in this film is to blame. The script is laughable, the sound design is a joke, the special effects were anything but special, and the list goes on. Not even good for cheap thrills, since you can see better fights in an average middle school. The only reason I gave it an extra star is for the couple of laughs I actually got from it, though even there, I'm not sure it was intentional.

I'd say don't waste your time or your braincells, unless you really have watched everything else on Netflix already. This is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

I won't lie to you, I enjoyed this movie. Yes, it was rather generic. Yes, it borrowed some plot points from other movies. And yes, there were way too many crows. Yet despite all the negative I continued to hear about it, I went and saw it anyways, and I'm glad I did.

Many plot points, such as a haunted house in the middle of nowhere, parents not listening to their kids, and ghosts out for revenge are ideas that Hollywood has used and recycled more times than a person can count. However, The Messengers manages to put these together into one movie, without going for too much at once. Certain scenes were rather predictable, so I won't claim that the movie really innovates on any of the standard horror elements, but there are plenty of moments that had me jump in my seat, and had the female members of the audience squealing and clutching their boyfriends.

Overall I felt at the end of the movie that, while not amazing, it was worthy of my time and money to see with a couple friends on a lazy afternoon.