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Like I say, I just can't see how such a dozy, unbelievable film can make it to the top 250 and get such a high score - even accepting this was a vampire fantasy, the storyline was dumb beyond belief and proceeded to regale us with the following series of incredulous situations:
A schoolkid offers himself up for systematic bullying without protest.
No-one in the school notices a kid being systematically bullied.
An eyewitness to an horrific murder says nothing to anybody, not even to people he knows well and who know him.
A person in a 'vampire support role' operates in near-daylight conditions with blatant disregard to anyone else in the vicinity, some of whom are well within earshot.
A series of neighbourhood vampire attacks are either not reported to or do not appear to concern the local police.
A man disfigures himself with 'instant acting' acid, leaving one side of his face completely untouched and no-one recognises him.
Supervision in a public swimming pool is so lax a bunch of kids can stroll in fully-clothed and get it cleared.
The 'ever up for a spot of bullying' dummy who is in the pool readily enters into a ridiculously one-sided and deadly game with someone who is not in the pool without protest - but we already know he is passive beyond belief....
Finally, two kids head off into the 'wide blue yonder' without any sign of where their next meal is coming from - his or hers - not to mention sitting in a railway carriage with a 'person-sized' box right there on the floor.
People make slack crap like this because other people will watch it and rate it highly simply because it's different from the norm for the genre. Very often, as is the case here apparently, a 'foreign' film like this will be remade by Hollywood to a) remove the subtitles for the benefit of a whole nation who famously doesn't like them and b) take a little of the Scandinavian 'weird' out of the equation; if successful, the movie invariably becomes a little less disbelievable.
I give this one a score of 3 for its outstanding cinematography and for the acting of the young female lead (no-one else), otherwise it merits a zero - if only as a lesson to the director to take more care with his audience....
Like I say, I just can't see how such a dozy, unbelievable film can make it to the top 250 and get such a high score - even accepting this was a vampire fantasy, the storyline was dumb beyond belief and proceeded to regale us with the following series of incredulous situations:
A schoolkid offers himself up for systematic bullying without protest.
No-one in the school notices a kid being systematically bullied.
An eyewitness to an horrific murder says nothing to anybody, not even to people he knows well and who know him.
A person in a 'vampire support role' operates in near-daylight conditions with blatant disregard to anyone else in the vicinity, some of whom are well within earshot.
A series of neighbourhood vampire attacks are either not reported to or do not appear to concern the local police.
A man disfigures himself with 'instant acting' acid, leaving one side of his face completely untouched and no-one recognises him.
Supervision in a public swimming pool is so lax a bunch of kids can stroll in fully-clothed and get it cleared.
The 'ever up for a spot of bullying' dummy who is in the pool readily enters into a ridiculously one-sided and deadly game with someone who is not in the pool without protest - but we already know he is passive beyond belief....
Finally, two kids head off into the 'wide blue yonder' without any sign of where their next meal is coming from - his or hers - not to mention sitting in a railway carriage with a 'person-sized' box right there on the floor.
People make slack crap like this because other people will watch it and rate it highly simply because it's different from the norm for the genre. Very often, as is the case here apparently, a 'foreign' film like this will be remade by Hollywood to a) remove the subtitles for the benefit of a whole nation who famously doesn't like them and b) take a little of the Scandinavian 'weird' out of the equation; if successful, the movie invariably becomes a little less disbelievable.
I give this one a score of 3 for its outstanding cinematography and for the acting of the young female lead (no-one else), otherwise it merits a zero - if only as a lesson to the director to take more care with his audience....
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