Five Nights At Freddy's 2 Film SPOILER FREE Film Review

Back in 2023 there was one horror film that nobody expected to be a hit film that being Five Nights At Freddy's. Yet it did turn out to be a very modest hit for Universal Pictures so much so that a little over a year later they announced the sequel and well the sequel has just been released and well I thought that i'd check it out for you all and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE review of the film that it could be argued is a Scream reunion with the film in question being called simply just "Five Nights At Freddy's 2" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when Abby starts to miss her robotic friends she decides to visit them inorder to fix them but a camera crew is also there and stir up trouble that could have deadly consequences for all involved. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty OK at best as this films plot really has nothing in it that makes it worth watching and yet at the same time the films plot is creative enough to make the film worth watching as it's a plot that we really havn't seen before now and while this films plot isn't strong enough to support an entire film you could also make that argument for the first films plot as well and yet somehow that film pulled off it's weak premise where as this film despite having the games creator on board as both a screen writer and a producer it somehow doesn't make it work with this films plot being the kind of plot that you could see working better as an episode of a TV show rather then something that you'd want to see in a movie as the films plot is just wafer thin at best with the film just dropping and picking up it's plot several times that it makes it hard to tell just what the main plot of the film is even meant to be in the first place as that's how forgettable that this films plot really is alot of the time with the plot of this film not even being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Josh Hutcherson as Mike Schmidt , Elizabeth Lail as Vanessa Shelly and Piper Rubio as Abby Schmidt. Also starring in this film is Freddy Carter as Michael Afton , Theodus Crane as Jeremiah , Wayne Knight as Mr. Berg , Teo Briones as Alex , Mckenna Grace as Lisa , Skeet Ulrich as Henry Emily , Kellen Goff as the voice of Toy Freddy , Megan Fox as the voice of Toy Chica , Matthew "MatPat" Patrick as the voice of Toy Bonnie and Matthew Lillard as William Afton.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With all of the actors that you expect a goo performance from giving us exactly that but that's also the problem as you expect those kinds of performances from alot of this films actors and therefor it's not all that surprising when they give you the performance that you expect from them which makes the performances in this film feel kind of predictable as you know what it is that your going to be getting with the actors in this film with the films more newer actors failing to make an impact as the film doesn't really give them a chance to and from a performance point of view they don't get alot of scenes to show us what it is that they can do in the process with the films best actor being Matthew Lillard as the man really is the only one who feels like that he's really actually trying to turn in a good performance in this film and it is something that does show as he really was a highlight of the first film as well and it is good to see him getting more and more mainstream roles again as he is a really good actor something which he does prove once again in this film with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this is films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film. 

Character wise again much like the films plot there's really nothing to this films characters as they all feel like that they were created within a week. As to be frank none of this films character are all that interesting and while yes that was also a problem with the first film as well it could be argued that they were still coming up with the characters in that film and yet in this film the makers of this film should have known how to make there characters interesting or even passable but it seems like they took a huge step back when compared to the first film as in the first film they did have a thing where Mike was having nightmares about these children and learning to be an actual adult for Abby and yet here he comes across as a paper thin character that has nothing interesting about him with the same thing being true for Vanessa as well with even the the paranormal investigators that appear in the film only bein there to give the robots some more people to kill and that's really it with the only somewhat decent character being Abby herself as she really does believe that these robots are her friends with her even being someone who is into robotics which given what she went through in the first film does make sense for her character and while she's not as annoying as she really could have been she's also not that interesting of a character in the first place therefore it makes no sense for her to be this films main character especially if the makers of this film aren't going to do anything to make her interesting as they very easily could have made the school weirdo and have her struggle to come to gripes with what she went through in the first film as that is something that would scar any kid and yet she's brushed it off with her basically becoming a surrogate for the audience to see themselves as which is fine for the game but it's not something that works for the movie. 

Much like the first film this film is also based of the game that it's named after which in this case is Five Nights At Freddy's 2. Just based off of a very quick read of the games Wikipedia page it does look like that this film does follow the plot of the game quite closely as the film does borrow quite alot of things from the game which depending on if your a fan of the games or not could be seen as being either a good or a bad thing as while having this film be more like the game does show at the very least some level of respect towards the source material but at the same time tho if your going to stick to the games plot as fairly closely as this film does then you might as well out the entire game on the screen as if you've played the game then you've seen the movie as there's pretty much nothing that's all that different between the two with this being what you get when you hire the person that wrote the game in the first place to be the sole writer of the film version as there should have been someone writing the script for this film who wasn't involved with the making of the game as then that person would know what stuff would make for an interesting film whereas here because of the fact that Scott Cawthon wrote both the game and this film it does mean that alot of the stuff from the game which again just based off of a very quick read of the games Wikipedia page doesn't make for a good film and heck the film even recreates the aspect of the game where the player has to use the security cameras to keep track of the robots which is great for gameplay but for the film it does result in a rather boring scene and while sticking close to the game can work heck just look at both Sonic The Hedgehog and The Super Mario Bros Movie as proof of that here tho it would have helped the film out if they did things that they didn't do in the game.

To say that the marketing for this film was really bad would be a huge understatement as there's not been all that much marketing done for the film. There was at most two trailers released months ago and a handful of posters and that's it and yet if you go outside you won't see the film being promoted anywhere be it on buses or on billboards there's nothing to tell you that this film is coming out therefor nobody would blame anyone if they either A didn't know that this film was coming out in the first place or B didn't know that this film was being made as there's just nothing to let you know that this film is being released say what you will about the first film but you at least knew that that film was coming out here tho there was nothing to tell you that the film was coming out with the makers of this film forgetting that they could have had the greatest film ever made on their hands but no one is going to know about it because there not telling us about it now granted this film will have some very stiff competition in a few weeks when Avatar: Fire And Ash comes out but it very easily could have won this weekend if people knew that the film was coming out but due to the fact that Zootopia 2 is actually doing pretty good at the box office and the fact that this is film was marketed really poorly this film will not make that much money either this weekend or in general and hopefully this fill teach the makers of this film to actually market the film as films like Borderlands have shown us that if you barely market a film then nobody is going to turn up for it and that is something that could very easily be the case for this film this is despite the fact that the franchise itself is still fairly popular

To be blunt there is a good chance that this could be the final Five Night At Freddy's movie not only due to the bad marketing and bad reviews as the first film also got bad reviews. With t also being due to the fact that the film isn't as fun as it could have been either as this is a film that had the potential to be a fun and dumb sequel as all of the things that needed to be set up were already done in the first film thus leaving this film to be more fun and just get on with things and give us things that they couldn't do in this first film yet it feels like that this film is alot less fun to watch as it takes itself far to seriously for it's own good which to be fair isn't a bad thing but when he film has scenes that could have been more fun if the film actually went all the way with it's ideas then it makes you wonder why they bothered to make this film as seriously as they did in the first place as this is a video game film so by all rights the makers of this film could have gone to those more fun places and it would have worked and yet because they don't it makes the film feel more of a chore to sit through as these should be films that are dumb films that don't really require you to think all that much about what's going on and yet because of the fact that we are forced to think about what's going on in the film that does mean that the film does come across as being all the more worse then what it already is in the first place as if we weren't forced to think about what's going on in the film then we the audience would be able to have a better time and except it for nothing more then what it is which is a dumb horror film and really nothing all the more then that.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty seven minuets and twenty two seconds. Which to be fair to this film is a perfectly solid running time or this film to have and while this film does have the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place it also doesn't really use it's running time all that wisely as the films plot isn't that well developed with this being because of the fact that the film doesn't spent alot of time on focusing on it's plot with it instead focusing on other things other then it's plot with the film just doing things not to advance the plot but just for no reason whatsoever when the film could have spent alot more of it's running time in developing it's plot then showing us pointless scenes of Mike just going about his day to day life with this even effecting the films character development as the makers of this film don't even bother to develop any of there characters which is fine for the game as the audience is meant to be the main character in the game but here in the film there should have been alot of effort into giving the films characters some form of character development but the film seems to be more focused on giving us references to the game then it is in giving us actually good characters that are well developed when it could have done both just by giving us well written characters or by giving us scenes where the characters learn things and grow as characters as a result of that but due to there being no character development in this film it does mean that we know just as much about this films coming out of the film then we did coming into the film as that's just how little character development that the films characters get in this film with this being true for both the returning and new characters as well but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual horror that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual horror that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With the film putting alot of focus on giving us jump scares much like the game which is fine enough as the jump scares in tis film can really effective when there done right but that's the issue tho as not alot of this films jump scares are done right with sadly alot of them feeling like they were only added in there because of the fact that the makers of this wanted to have a scare and not because there was alot of tension built up as more often then not in this film they won't bother with building up any tension before doing the jump scare as they'll just jump right to the jump scare with an awkward music cue which is just cheap and lazy but with that being said tho there is some effort put into one of the films kills as the films best kills happens at a school I won't what event is taking nor who it involves but it is something that should have been the main centre piece of the film instead of happening when it does and it should have involved more then just the one robot as while the kill itself is indeed really good and is the films best kill for a reason it also reminds you of just how much fun that this film could have been with that scene being a a good example of that as it would have been more fun if we got to see more robots just going absolutely nuts in the school and while this scene works fine as it is it would have worked better if the film took more advantage of it's setting and actually dared to be more fun in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall if you have the choice between this and quite literally any other film out right now go with the other film as chances are you'll have a much more better time with that film then you will with this poorly made and poorly marketed film as that's just how average that this film really is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Wickedness Film Review

With ever popular film there of course comes two things the first of which is a sequel and the second of which is a knock off movie. Well Wicked turned out to be a really popular movie and it's sequel is already out however there is also a horror themed knock off movie out as well with it being that film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the film that makes The Asylum more subtle with the film that it's knocking off with the film in question being called simply just "Wickedness" enjoy.

The plot of this film is ten years after her sister is cursed and locked away in a mental asylum for killing there wizard parents a young girl must now fight to survive when her sister breaks out and vows to kill her on there birthday. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad with the films plot being barely watchable at best as the plot of the film is just so thinly drawn out that at times it was hard to make out what the actual plot of this film is even meant to be in the first place heck the plot of any Asylum film is much more better then the plot of this film as they at least try to put effort into there plots where as this is film is best described as being Harry Potter meets Wicked but lame with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film are just hoping that people will confuse this film with Wicked and therefor they chose not to give the film a plot that works which is a ashame as on paper this is a plot that really could have worked it just needed a creative that actually cared about it enough to make it work and not be the mess of a plot that it ultimately ends up being with the films plot barely a strong plot to support a film it just needed a few more passes at the script writing stage to make it all the more better then then what it currently is as right now in it's present form this films plot is laughable at best and downright boring and insulting at it's worst with the plot of this film also not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Rebecca Rose McILroy as Maret , Christopher Blackmore as Gorwin and Nicola Ditter as Aymer. Also starring in this film is Clara Legallais-Moha as Desielle , Brynmor Leyshon as Udor , Alesia Lifantii as Ibees , Graeme Muncer as Edwin , Lynne O'Sullivan as Ms. Thinner , Laryssa Ivy Pereira as Vestelle , Sophie Rankin as Aradia , Serena-Elizabeth as Phelorna , Mary Eva Sharp as Ena and Karolina Wojciechowska as Sabrina.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually feature / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. With this being due to the fact that all of this films actors are a bunch of really unknown and very cheap to get actors and therefor expecting good or even decent quality acting from them wouldn't have been the smartest of movies but in saying that that you do expect OK acting even from a cheaply made British Indie film such as this one and yet we barely get that in this film as whilst this films actors are indeed trying there best this is a case where there best just isn't good enough as alot of them are wooden and robotic at best with alot of them barely having any kind of emotion in scenes where they should have lots of emotion with the best actor in this film being quite easily Rebecca Rose McIlroy as Maret as she's the only one that looks like she's actually having fun in this film with her chewing up all of the scenery in every single scene that she's in and whilst it really does look like that the green paint used to make her skin look green is coming off half of the time you can tell that she's really having a blast playing this more deranged version of Elphaba with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does help to hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.  

This film does include something new from the writer of Fairest Of Them All that being the use of magic. However tho he forgot to do one very simple thing and that's explain how magic works in this world as according to this film anyone can be witch or wizard with it not being explained if they are born with there powers or if they train to get them or what having powers means for the rest of the world heck Wizards Of Waverly Place a kids TV show from almost two decades ago explained the ules of magic better in there show then what writer Harry Boxley does in his movie with even the big thing that's meant to stop magic from being used in the first place just being called anti-magic which is just a lame and uncreative name for something like that and they don't explain what anti-magic is either look granted with any fantastical film you have to be able to suspend your disbelief or else the film falls apart but you still need to ground your film in some of logic for that work and this is something that the makers of the film don't do with them just throwing everything at the wall and expecting us the audience not to question it when all that does is cause us to hit our heads so hard from questioning what it is that we're even seeing in the first place yet at the same time tho the film does indeed get some of credit for at least trying to include CGI which granted does look a little bit wonky but that's to be expected given the fact that this film had the budget of a shoelace which would have meant that the films effects budget would be even smaller but alot of the time the spells that the characters are casting look like there not even hitting the person that there meant to be hitting and they also look like that there floating just near the person and not outright hitting them.

It's pretty obvious both from the films title and the fact that the main villain of the film is a witch with green skin that this is film is meant to be a knock off of the 2024 film Wicked. However it lacks all of the basics to t least make this film a film that's so bad that it's good with the film not being entertaining to watch in the first place and nothing about the film is explained at all and heck the film is even a year out to cash in fully on the Wicked phenomena to The Asylum's credit when they do a knock off film they at the very least release it a few days or weeks before the film that there knocking off comes out with them also being alot more subtler then this film as to what it is that there knocking off in the first place where as here the makers of this film just outright tell you on the films poster that this is going to be a horror version of Wicked only without any of the good songs put in it and what's worse is that this is a film that could have worked as a knock off film if they did just two things the first of which being if they released this film alot more closer to the release date of Wicked and not the release date of Wicked: For good and the second of which being if they went all in on what it was that they were knocking off in the first place which they very easily could have done given the fact that The Wizard Of Oz is in the public domain and heck there even releasing a horror version of the book soon as well both of which would have made this film not only more enjoyable to watch as while yes it still would have been a really bad film but it at the very least would have been a film that's so bad that it's good and it also would tricked more people into buying this film for there kids so they would have made more money off of it and heck they could have released it into theaters as well to make a little bit more money of the film.

Like alot of badly done British independent films this film just looks cheap which granted the makers of the film really cold help with. As they do have a very tine budget but at the same time tho it would have helped your film out alot if there was some effort and some thought put into making it look good as films like Popeye The Slayer Man do prove that you can be a small knock off film but still have some actual effort put into it as alot of the shots in this film just look bland and lifeless with there not being alot of color to the film which makes the film look ugly and while granted the makers of this film were more then likely just using whatever material they could find at the time as a way to save money which would be fair enough there still needs to be some creativity in what kind of shots that your getting as in this film we only mostly get static shots where the camera doesn't move with alot of the shots being mid close up shots and that's really it and yet the odd time where we do get some creative it really does stand out as we do get some drone shots which look good and the odd times where the camera does move goes a long way into making this film feel like an actual film and something that some friends made and put up on Youtube and yet the fact that the makers of this film mostly went with the cheaper option instead of trying new things all it does is make this film look even more bland then what it is in the first place when this is film that due to it's subject matter of witchcraft does allow you do some creative shots and if the makers of this film gave the film some color instead mostly keeping it blue or grey it would have made the film alot more pleasant to watch with the film even having peach at the start of the film which was nice but it did also look a little big off putting as well. 

Merit as a villain is just your typical horror villain with nothing new added to her outside of the fact that she's a witch. With her big thing in this film being the fact that she wants to get revenge on her sister for having her locked up in a mental asylum for ten years which is a decent and with the fact that due to the curse that her sister put upon her ten years ago she now only gets pleasure from killing members of her own family which would be in an interesting thing to have in the film if he film bothered to develop that aspect of her character at all as nothing about her character gets explained as we don't get to see the bond between Merit and her sister Aradia isn't established all that well as when the film starts we see Merit getting turned into the green skinned witch that she stays like for the rest of the film with her staying evil for the rest of the film when it would have been all the more tragic if we saw them as normal sisters at the start of the film as then it would have made it all the tragic when Aradia has to kill her sister at the end of the film and while Merit is a really fun character to watch in the film the rest of the films characters are just as bland and just as boring as you'd expect from writer Harry Boxley as all of the characters that he seems to create feel just as dull and lifeless as the films that he writes for as there is nothing to this films characters that make them standout from each other with the only thing that makes Gorwin stand out from all of the other characters is the fact that he's a male and that's it and heck Aradia is so boring as a protagonist that I had to rewatch bits of the film again just to get her name as she's that dull of a character.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and eleven minuets and fifty six seconds. Which is a fairly decent running time for this film to last as it's a film that really doesn't need that long of a running time to tell it's already really thinly drawn out story in the first place with this film having just about the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place with the film not even using what extremely limited running time that it has in the first place to fully develop it's plot in the first with it feeling like that things are just happening for the sake of it and not because of the fact that the plot demands and heck Merit even kills people that aren't apart of her bloodline which goes against what little character that she has in the first place with the film not even developing it's characters either as all of the films characters come across as being very one dimensional characters as all of them having nothing interesting about them with this is even being true for Merit who despite being the best character in the film is just a dull and boring character to watch in the film albeit she's not as bad as the rest of the films characters as there was some effort into making her an entertaining character where as all of the rest of the films characters are dull and boring characters with this being something that could have been fixed if the makers of this film actually put in some effort into making sure that both it's plot and characters were well done instead of making sure that we knew this was a Wicked knock off film but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With all of this films kills not really being that creative as they all involve Merit using her powers to cast some sort of spell and that's really it and while that is to be expected given then fact that the main villain of this film is a witch but at the same time tho it would have been nice to see a verity of the types of kills that we got in this film as that would have given us the chance to see just how creative that Merit could be as a killer whereas only seeing one type of kill only limits the types of kills that we can see in the film with there not really being a best kill in the film as there all just bland kills that sound great on paper but due to the films incredibly small budget with all of this films kills being very limited in what they can look like due to how small that the budget is as they all involve some really bad looking effects that don't look like that there causing harm to anyone and yet when a film is a bit a witch as the main villain then there really should have been a lot more thought into what they could do with this films tiny budget as the films budget does nothing for the films kills this is despite the fact that having a witch as the main villain is something that has worked before in something like The Craft for example and yet here it felt like that idea was undercooked with the films kills really suffering because of it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Overall does it really need saying at this point in the review as this film really is a dreadful film and one that does deserve to not be seen by anyone as it's just a dull and boring film that is nothing more then a cheaply made knock off of Wicked and that's really it as that's all there is to this film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 1 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Saw V Film Review

Out of all of the horror franchises out there the Saw franchise has to be the most divisive one there with some either loving it or hating it. There is one thing however that can't be denied that being the fact that these films made a boat load of money so much so that the franchise is STILL going on to this very day with the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today however being one of the most forgettable ones in the franchise and so then join me I review the film that is the first Saw film in a while to take place after the events of the Saw III with the film in question being called simply just "Saw V" enjoy.

The plot of this film is Agent Strahm finds himself in the middle of another Jigsaw case and has to find out who this new Jigsaw killer is before it's to late all the while another deadly Jigsaw game has begun. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with this films plot yes being the typical Saw plot at this point with the film not really deviating away from that which is something that does make this films plot seem forgettable at best as all it does is blend in with all of the other Saw films be they good or bad but in all fairness to this film it is something that does still work really well as the set up to all of the Saw films will always work no matter how many times that set up is repeated and watered down however tho when your five films in and you don't do anything new with the plot then that does mean that your not being creative and that is something that does ring true for this film as the plot of this film is just so forgettable and unimaginative that it could be the plot of quite literally any other Saw movie and you wouldn't need to change a thing about it's plot when the makers of this film could have added anything to the plot to help this film stand out from a plot point of view with this films plot not really being the strongest plot in the franchise but given that this film is just copying the plots of all of the other Saw films that is something that could also be said for those films as well and it's not something that's unique to this film with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Starring in this film is Tobin Bell as Jigsaw / John Kramer , Costas Mandylor as Mark Hoffman and Scott Patterson as Agent Strahm. Also starring in this film is Betsy Russell as Jill , Julie Benz as Brit , Meagan Good as Luba , Mark Rolston as Dan Erickson , Carlo Rota as Charles , Greg Bryk as Mallick , Laura Gordon as Ashley , Joris Jarsky as Seth , Mike Butters as Paul , Al Sapienza as The Chief Of Police , Mike Realba as Detective Fisk , Jeff Pustil as Bernie , Dana Sorman as A Law Office Receptionist , Sheila Shah as Special Agent Cowan , Samantha Lemole as Pamela Jenkins , Lyriq Bent as Rigg , Athena Karkanis as Agent Perez , Justin Louis as Art , Bahar Soomekh as Lynn , Niamh Wilson as Corbett , Angus Macfadyen as Jeff , Tony Nappo as Gus , Tim Burd as Obi and Sarah Power as Angelina.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. Which is something that is to be expected from these Saw films as they are films that don't really require good acting in them to make them work as the stars of these films are never the actors there always the traps with the films acting taking a backseat to them but with that said those that you do expect a good performance like Tobin Bell and Costas Mandylor really are good in this film with them delivering the exact same performance that you'd expect from them and while that is a good thing as they are a pair of wonderful actors in there own right it's also a negative thing as well as it's the exact performance that you do expect from both of these actors with there being nothing new or interesting thrown into the mix with this being a result of the fact that these Saw films were produced very quickly and so the films actors would most likely have not have had enough time for a take to with this meaning that alot of this films acting does feel like the kind of acting that you'd see in a first take with the best actor in this film being Tobin Bell as even tho he's not really in the film all that much you can tell that he's having fun with the role and does love playing the character of John Kramer with him delivering a performance that can be seen as being really creepy with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Much like alot of the aspects of these films the films characters really do play second fiddle to the films traps. With all of this film newer characters being painfully bland and boring characters which is something that does make alot sense as they just there to die and don't really need to be all that interesting as characters but at the same time tho there should have been some effort from the makers of this film into making this films newer characters likable as then we the audience would have a reason to want to see them survive this films traps and to make it to the end of the film and yet the film doesn't really give us a reason to care for any of these characters when all of the best saw films do make an effort into giving us good characters that we want to see more off with the only interesting characters in this film being the returning characters from the previous films and that's really it and even that's more due to the fact that there helping push along the story of Saw's four through seven and that's really it where as the new characters in this film or the characters that are excusive to this film are left being less then one dimensional characters when it would have helped the film be less of a bore to watch if the films characters were likable and if we were given a reason to care for them outside of the fact that Jigsaw is the villain and there the good guys look the Saw films very rarely if ever give us good characters especially when there the ones that are going through the traps but even so there still needed to be effort put into them as otherwise all we have is death scenes that we don't really care about because of the fact that we don't care about the characters in them.

This if the first film since Saw III to take place after the events of that film as both that film and Saw IV take place at the exact same time as each other. With Saw IV only very briefly taking place after the events of Saw III with this being an interesting thing to do as now we get to see what a post John Kramer world looks like and while it doesn't really look any different from the previous movies as the only thing of note being the fact that the police hold a meeting to declare that the Jigsaw murders are no more and that's really it which is kind of interesting as the police side of things doesn't really effect the main game in this film where as it would have done in the previous films with this being due to the fact that they do believe that Jigsaw is dead and while the film really doesn't take as full advantage of the fact that the police don't really know that there's a new Jigsaw killer in town it really doesn't need to as to help to make this film work the police do have to fully believe that Jigsaw is dead and while we do have Agent Strahm still working the case for them it doesn't play in the main plot of the film until the third act with him mainly being concerned with trying to find out who Jigsaw's secret apprentice is and that's it but in saying this tho it would have been nice to see how alot of the other characters reacted to news of John's death as we know that he's always five steps ahead of everyone else and so it would have been interesting to see how characters from the other films felt about this man who had tortured them basically being killed of as it does beg the question would he be hailed as a hero by the public or would he hailed as the villain with this being something that no Saw film has dared to tackle which is a shame as it is an interesting take on the series mythology.

The biggest sin that this film could ever commit was the fact that it's forgettable as there's nothing all that memorable about this film. With this being odd as all of the other Saw films including the bad ones have at the very least one thing about them that makes you remember that film and yet here there's just nothing as the film is instead more focused on giving us some admittedly decent traps then it is in giving things that make it memorable heck even now it's hard to remember anything that happens in this film as it all just feels very samey like the film is more focused on being the typical Saw film that it's forgotten what it was that made the Saw films memorable in the first place with this now doubt being due to the fact that the director of this film David Hackl was making his directorial debut with the film after serving as production designer in Saw's two through four and second unit director on Saw IV and while him having been the production designer on the previous films does help to make the sets look good as he gets to film the traps in new and interesting ways it's that inexperience in making a film that really does let the film down as this is a film that would have benefitted from having a more experienced hand directing it as then whomever they got to direct the film would know how best to film this script and how best to make this film stand out from a visual standpoint and that's not something that David Hackle can do and while that's not his fault as he was making his directorial debut with the film it is something that should have been taken into account when the makers of this film were looking for someone to direct the film in the first place.

The one thing that this film does have going for it is the fact that we get to see just how far that Mark Hoffman is willing to go. Be it getting revenge for the death of his wife or for keeping secret the fact that he's the new Jigsaw killer which is something that is really interesting as it makes him look like someone who is always two steps ahead of everyone around him as he knows that Strahm would never have listen to the full tape to begin with as he's more concerned with catching Hoffman then he is is own safety with Hoffman playing into that aspect of his character with him making it look like that Strahm is new Jigsaw so regardless of if Strahm lived or died he was always going to get the blame for these new set of killings whilst Hoffman would have been recognized as being a hero and someone to admire but in saying this tho it makes no sense that John Kramer would have to secret apprentices at the same time as he is a character that would only work with one person at a time with both Amanda and Hoffman being the kind of characters that really wouldn't get along with each other regardless of who there common alley and friend is in the first place let alone the fact that it would mean that there would have been apprentices helping him at all times when it makes more sense for him to just be having the one apprentice with this being something that could have been fixed by showing John openly reject Hoffman's help with Hoffman becoming obsessed with copying John so much so that when John does infact die he doesn't become the new Jigsaw killer he becomes a copycat killer who believes that he's smarter then John because of the fact that he knows how the police work.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty five minuets and three seconds. Which to be fair to this film is pretty much the bogstandard running time for these Saw films to have and again to fair to this film this film really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time even if it doesn't use it's running time all that wisely in the first place as the plot of this film isn't all that well developed with this films plot being at best paper thin as the film doesn't really focus on it's plot all that much with the police side of things feeling like an afterthought when compared to the films traps and so the makers of the film don't really take the time that they really could have done to fully develop the plot of the film as this is something that would then make the big twist at the end  but because of the fact that the makers of this film cared more about the traps then they did about anything else with this even being true for the films characters as well as even the films returning characters get nothing in the way of character development with us knowing as much about the films characters coming out of the film then we did coming into the film and yet if the film bothered to give the characters some kind of character development then it would have the film alot more better because of it and while the characters in other films would get alot more better the ones in this film come across as being really undercooked with this being true for the films returning characters as well as the film doesn't bother to add anything to them that makes feel more developed as characters but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a horror fil that really does mean that I have to talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this films traps being the best aspect of the film with this being something that really does make alot of sense as by this point in the films the traps were the main reason to be going to a Saw film in the first place and while the traps in this film aren't as good as the traps in the other films there some decent traps in this film that are really effective in their own right with the best example of this film being The Bow Tie trap where the victims have to work together to get keys from a box to unlock the devices from around there necks and yet because they don't it ends up with one of them getting there head chopped off with the films best kill not even being in it's best trap as the best kill is when Luba gets electrocuted as the other victims have to cause enough voltage from one person to unlock a door with the visual of her hacking whilst this electricity is coming out of her being a very effective death however the best trap is ironically the one that comes right after where the remaining two victims have to put there hands in a container whilst a saws the hand in half as they have to produce enough blood to stop the trap itself something which they very easily could have done if they all worked together all throughout the game but because they didn't it know means that they two victims left now have to produce twice as much blood with them almost dying in the process with the sight of Mallick's half severed off hand being a really gory visual in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall this film is nothing then the typical Saw film with the film having nothing new added to the setup that makes it feel unique as even the big twist of if Strahm had listened to the tape fully and got in the box he would then be OK feeling like something that's been done before in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in his very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very film from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Predator: Badlands Film SPOILER FREE Film Review

The Predator franchise is one that more often then not sees decades pass between each film and yet when Prey was a hit it really was a shock to see a second film from the same director get announced pretty much right away. Well now then here we are with that film having just been released into theaters and well you all just knew that I was going to be checking this film out the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE of the film that is actually the second Predator film to get released this year with the film in question being called simply just "Predator: Badlands" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a young alien Predator crash lands on a dangerous planet he must team with an android to bring back the one kill that will see him get welcomed back into his family. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot thats actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with the films plot actually doing something new with the franchise by showing us a young Predator going on what is presumably his first ever hunt and while the film doesn't really go as far as it really could have done with that idea the idea alone is more then strong enough to support the film on it's own with the plot of the film not really focusing on the hunt itself but rather the friendship between two characters which is nice but that's not why you come to watch a Predator movie as you come to one of these to see the characters getting stalked by this seemingly impossible killing machine but to be fair tho when your this many films in a franchise you do have to do new things to keep people going to see your movie and in the case of this film that does include showing a young Predator going on a hunt in a very dangerous planet with the plot of this film being as strong as it was ever going to be as let's be honest here nobody goes to see these movies for there plots and therefor it is interesting when we get a film that does have a really good plot to it an it makes you wonder why alot of the other films didn't have good plots to them as well with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is Elle Fanning as Thia and Tessa and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as Dek and the voice of Dek's Father. Also starring in this film is Reuben De Jong as Njohrr / Apex Predator / Father , Mike Homik as Kwei , Stefan Grube as the voice of Kwei , Rohinal Nayaran as Bud , Cameron Brown as Smyth , Alison Wright as the voice of MU/TH/UR and Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer as the voice of Kewi's Computer.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With all of this films actors turning in some really good performances which is something that is both shocking and yet at the same time makes complete and total sense with it being shocking due to the fact that much like Prey this film is mostly made up of unknown or very little known actors and therefor it would have been foolish to expect a good performance from them and yet at the same time it's not that shocking due to the fact that Elle Fanning is starring in this film and she does nine times out of ten turn in some really good performances in her movies with the same thing being true for this film with her even being the films best actor due to the fact that she plays two different characters in the film and she has to make them both sound different and look completely different from each other and that is something that she does do with ease in this film as Thia has more of an upbeat personality whereas Tessa is very much a by the books type of character and yet even when your not fully paying attention to the film you can still tell who is who due to how vastly different that they both sound from one another with the acting that's in this film really being helped by that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film. 

Doing the CGI for this film is Framestore , Industrial Light & Magic , Perception , Trixter , capital T and VicScreen. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with this films CGI blending in really well with the live action elements and while it was still easy to tell what was CGI and what wasn't they were blended together really well with all o this films effects looking good as even tho this film only had a small budget at least when compared to other effects heavy films you can tell right away that the films effects budget was really high as not only did they manage to get alot of really good effects companies to wok on the film in the first place but they also manages to produce some really high quality effects alot of the time as while yes the film does have alot of really good effects in it there are also some really bad looking effects in the film as well with some of the films many creatures looking a little bit to fake alot of the time and there's a shot of Tessa near the end of the film where there's just something about the shot that feels off this is despite the fact that the film does have some really high quality effects alot of the time with even what they do with Thia looking really good and is something that does make you wonder how they managed to pull that effect off when making the film as there's no way that it's something that could have been without causing pain to actor Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi.

As was mentioned at the very start of this film this is actually the second Predator film that director Dan Trachtenberg made and released this year as in the summer we also got the animated anthology film Predator: Killer Of Killers. Yet without giving that much away about this film don't expect this film to connect to that film in any way and don't expect characters from that film to show up in this film as while the two films do indeed take place in the same fictional world there are no crossover characters from either film which is a smart thing as we've seen with the MCU that doing that kind of thing to often to quickly can more often then not do more harm then good and with there being noting like that in this film it's clear as day that Dan Trachtenberg is more focused on telling a good story and in showing us new and exciting things with the Predator and having alot of cameos from characters from other Predator films would be to distracting an could be seen as being to much like fanservice but either way the very fact that he managed to make two films at the exact same time is insane as it requires alot of time and effort to make ONE film and yet he's made two at the same time and had them released in the exact same year only just months apart from each other and while there aren't any characters crossing over from either film it's still fun to imagine to how certain characters from Killers Of Killers would react to certain events going on in this film and while we might not get the crossover film until the third film whenever that may be the fact that he's already thinking about that but is more then willing to take his time in making it does show that he's willing to give the fans what they want but only if the right story comes along first.

Whilst the film does have alot of really good things that are working for the film it does also have alot of things that are working against the film. Like the fact that the planet that this film takes place doesn't feel as well developed as Earth was back in Prey which granted might because of the fact that we don't get to spend alot of time on that world before the action fully kicks in but it is something that does leave you wanting you as you get to see these really unique looking creatures and yet know nothing about this planet other then the fact that it's really dangerous which is just the most generic thing that could have been said and is something that's not really unique to this film and yet if the makers of this film took the time to if not fully at least partially develop the world that this film takes place on as that then could have had the added benefit of making the dangers that the characters go through in the film feel all the more real with the the fact that we don't really get that much of a chance to care or the characters being another downside of the film as while yes the film does develop the friendship between Thia and Dek there still treated like superheroes when an action scene starts which means that we have no reason to care for them and feel anything for them when they get put into a live of death situation as we know that there going to be making it out alive and well when we should be wondering if there going to be OK this is the same problem that A Good Day To Die Hard faced where they put John McClane into these situations where he should have died but doesn't and that made it hard to by into the film and by into his character because there was no threat to his life there and it's the same thing here only it's on a lesser degree. 

One of the things that the film does get right tho was the fact that it did develop the friendship between Dek and Thia. As without there friendship being believable then you don't really have a film to begin with and by into it so much that you do want to see more scenes with them just getting to know each other as that's when the film is the most fun to watch and while both characters are really well done in there own it's when there together that they really do come alive as both characters have such chemistry with each other that you really do by that he would do anything to protect her much like she'd do whatever she can do to protect him and while yes they both do have there sperate goals in this films it's the fact that we get to see them together that makes the film stand out as we've never seen a Predator movie where where the titular Predator has a friend as while yes other Predators have teamed up with humans before they have never had a friend with it being made crystal clear that with the three Predator movies that he's made thus far that this films director Dan Trachtenberg does care more about the Predator side of things that the human side of things as he does give us new looks at the Predator that the other films didn't do and he gives us new ideas for these characters as well and while having him team up with someone who is always cracking jokes could be seen as watering down the franchise it is something that does play into this film in ways that can't be discussed in this review but in saying that tho it is understandable why some people do hate this no kind of jokey take on the character as the Predator needs to be killing people in really horrible ways and not cracking jokes with a friend right before he does it.

Now then this film has  had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty nine minuets and nine seconds. Which is a bit of short running time for a Predator film to have but at the same time tho this is a film that really does have the right amount of running time to cover that amount of running time however tho in saying that this is a film that really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as while the plot of the film is as well developed as it will ever be due to the fact that the makers of this film did put alot of focus on it's plot with the film taking it's time in adding things that do help to fully develop the films plot in the long run sadly tho the same thing absolutely cannot be said for this films characters as none of them apart from Thia and Dek get much in the way of character development which I guess does make sense as they are meant to be the films characters and so of course they are going to be getting alot of the attention from the makers of this film but even Tessa and alot of the films other characters don't get that much in the way of character development with this mainly due to the fact that the film does have a much more shorter running time which is great in that it means that every single scene has to be about the plot of the film but it does also mean that we can't get alot of the smaller character moments that help to develop alot of the films characters and as such alot of this films characters do feel like the waste of good characters as we know as much about them coming out of the film then we did coming into the film but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is an action film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With it being made crystal clear that while the film does have alot of really good kills in the film they all going to take part in the films action scenes which is something that does somewhat make sense given that this is a young Predator but at the same time tho you don't expect a Predator film to be heavy on the action and not that heavy on it's kills as while there are kills in this film there's more action in the film it self with there being some creative kills but nothing that really hasn't been done before in other and better films with the films best action scene being the third act battle when Dek storms a building and uses his weapons to take out pretty much every one there in a gore filled action scene as again without giving away to much about what happens in that scene we do get to see alot of limbs being cut off with the only thing that lets that scene down being the fact that there's alot of CGI used in that scene which does look a little bit to fake alot of the time and while these more recent Predator films will always be effects heavy films there really should be a fine line between choosing when to use CGI and when doing things for real with this being something that should have been the case with the third act battle as it would have looked so much more cooler if we got to see alot of practical effects blended with the films CGI elements with the films third fight being helped by the fact that both Thia and Dek have there own enemies to fight with us getting to see just how each of them takes down there respective foe which is really fun to watch with the same thing also being true for the rest pf this films action as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if you like the other two recent Predator films then this is a film that really will be right up your street as it is a really good film so much so that it's already made back around $80 million of it's $105 million American dollar budget with that proving that the Predator franchise is not only back but it's really here to stay as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page , Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.