Brett Garten, Movie Extraordinare
Cinematic Sommelier
6.8
Middle of the road. The story is kind of lacking and predictable in nature. The jump scares were well crafted in their timing and framing. The cinematography is well used to establish and manage tension levels as the story unfolds. One thing I took away, if nothing else: I have never heard so much bone crunching in my entire life of watching movies. Or in general. I’m not sure chiropractors hear this much bone cracking in a day.
7.5
Well… that was unexpected.
You think you know where this is going, but even after things take a turn, it’s going to continue to surprise you until the final frame. There are much more endearing ways to get the girl, my man. Damn…
I was prepared for some violence, but not much can prepare you for the level of gore and how far down the rabbit hole this film is willing to go to show it. The main character deserves and Oscar for his take on the Norman Bates type. Very well done and entertaining, just not at all what was expected upon hitting play.
6.8
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Also of note: the only reason this wasn’t the hit is that it decided to go head to head against “Saturday Night Fever,” and John Travolta was a bigger draw than Jeff Goldblum. Insane. “Last Dance” by Donna Summer got robbed!
Filmed at Studio 54 West, with almost every cross-promotion available to Casablanca records at the time. Disco, KISS, Donna Summer… The decade of decadence. Eerily similar to “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” or “American Graffiti.” Or “Detroit Rock City, ” although I feel this is of higher quality than that record company cross-promotion film.
6.9
Better than “Bad Santa.” Infinitely more endearing. The story is clunky as hell, and it really doesn’t get moving or come together in any meaningful way until the final 20 minutes, but it had a bit of a message in there somewhere—deep, deep within the narrative onion.
6.4
No, not the cute one with Michael Keaton. The one about a cold blooded killer snowman resulting from genetic engineering and poor timing. Funny? Almost at times. Ridiculous? Oh yeah. Good? Debatable. I had to fully understand the back story for my Microsoft Teams background of a scary snowman.
Brett Garten, Movie Extraordinare 