Film: Fear the Night (Lionsgate)
Cast: Maggie Q, Highdee Kuan, Kat Foster, Ito Aghayere, Philip Burke
Director: Neil LaBute
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 92 minutes
This home-invasion set-up is a lame excuse for a generic action-thriller. Action star Maggie Q ( from ‘Nikita’) has little to do right here aside from look conscious, tense and severe.
Iraq War veteran Tess (Maggie Q) has a contentious relationship together with her sister Beth (Kat Foster) should put apart their variations for his or her little sister Rose’s bachelorette. They and their pals, Eight of them altogether, arrive for the get together on the empty household nation dwelling. But issues don’t go as deliberate. They get invaded by thugs who’re out to get their fingers on an enormous stash of medication and cash hidden within the dwelling they’re utilizing for the get together.
Might have been an fascinating thriller if the writing and route have been extra creative and action-oriented. The creepy dangerous males don’t have a lot menace increase of their favor both. Other than some direct and stunning hits with a bow and arrow, there’s not a lot motion to expertise right here. Everything is completed fairly stealthily so there’s no visible kinesis available.
This movie lacks a cohesive and fascinating narrative, the thrills are lacking and the motion is just about sub-standard. The writing is inept, there’s no twist, the dearth of pressure is galling and the dialogues are fairly lame. It’s additionally fairly predictable and cliche-ridden. The time stamps employed to up the stress solely made the narrative look hole and underwritten. The characters simply don’t develop on you. The plotting is so amateurish that even a brief runtime of 92 min feels laboured and exacting. The epilogue in direction of the top makes the expertise much more tedious.
Source: www.mid-day.com
