Thirtieth review is a film that had an aggressive online marketing campaign and then had the internet in shambles upon release. Experiments, sibling rivalry, wild transformations, weird romantic subtext, brazy fight scenes, and under ground tunnels. Includes #spoilers :
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Malignant (2021) Pros: The twist was really unexpected for me, I had no idea they were both in the same body. And how they transformed, the sound and visual of the head breaking open 🙈 It made me think of some questions though tied to some cons. I did really like the police station action scenes, those were pure mayhem, wild, and stylish.
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Cons: My face for the majority of it was 😒 The intro scene’s style confused me, it almost felt like a parody. Most of the burning questions were answered in the last 10 minutes but I also don’t believe that the abusive boyfriend didn’t hit that lady’s head in all of his abusive episodes. The lusty looks from the detective and flirtation just felt really misplaced and messed with the overall tone. The plot gave me Beyond Two Souls, but that was well written and well acted. This was neither of those things. At the VERY beginning where the boyfriend hit her into a wall and immediately started to apologize I was taken out of it because there was absolutely no nuance, no finesse. And hold up, Gabriel was supernatural, right? Dodging bullets and talking through telephones and exploding pace makers, why? They mention him being an abomination but how and why? And the swift turn in the end where shorty can take control of the hallucination made me yawn. Also the music that repeated during scenes that were meant to be seen as the turn or revelations was just not good and placed awkwardly. Nothing would be happening and the film’s theme music starts to play making me feel like I missed something. Overall I think it was unbalanced and not well written or acted.
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I give it a 3, doesn’t deserve anything higher or lower. The marketing team did well to make this seem like a really exciting movie but it left me day dreaming about the ice cream I am about to eat.
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