I sat down to watch the 2021 movie "The Midwife", being under the impression that I would be in for a horror movie. And given the movie's mediocre rating here on IMDb (5 stars as I am writing this), I figured, that there might be a chance that the movie would be entertaining enough. So of course I sat down to watch the movie.
And boy was I in for a rude awakening. "The Midwife" from directors Ryan Gage and Marta Baidek was a massive swing and a miss.
First of all, the term horror might be stretching it a bit. Thriller perhaps, but horror? Not so much. Not unless you consider prolonged periods of nothing happening as being labeled horror, then sure.
The storyline told in "The Midwife" was sluggish and lacking interesting contents, so my interest in the movie was quickly fading as the movie trotted on in a gut-wrenching slow pace with nothing happening.
And the acting in the movie was bland. But of course, with the actors and actresses having nothing to work with in terms of a proper script or interesting characters, how could they possible put on something outstanding?
I gave up on "The Midwife" about halfway through. By that time I was just fed up with the boredom of nothing happening. And this is not a movie that I will ever be returning to watch the rest of.
My rating of "The Midwife" lands on a three out of ten stars, based mostly on the production value of the movie.
