I must admit that I had hoped for a bit more than what writer and director Romola Garai managed to deliver with this 2020 horror movie titled "Amulet". Seems that proper horror movies are starting to be a rare occurrence these days.
It was the abysmal storyline that made this movie into a stinking pile of... well, you get my drift here. The storyline was just so unfathomably slow paced, and with virtually nothing of anything of noteworthy interest happening, it just felt extraordinarily prolonged. And it felt more like it was a sentence to sit down and watch "Amulet" than it was a movie for entertainment.
I will say that the acting in the movie was adequate, especially taking into consideration that writer Romola Garai had virtually given the actors and actresses nothing to work with. Nothing. And the movie had a relatively small cast ensemble, so they had to up their game and really deliver to carry the movie. This failed to be the case, because they just didn't have the material to work with.
For a horror movie, then "Amulet" was just dreadfully mundane and boring. There was nothing scary in the movie at all. Not even a single, cheaply and easily acquired jump scare. Yeah, so go figure...
I will say that the prosthetics were good, and I did like the design of the bat. And the whole birthing thing was actually interesting enough. But these could just do nothing to salvage the train wreck that is "Amulet".
My rating of "Amulet" is a generous three out of ten stars, mostly because there was a good production value to the movie. I managed to suffer through the entire course of the movie, so you don't have to. And as for the ending of the movie, well while it was just so obvious and you saw it coming a mile away, something could be said for that being a classic way of ending a horror movie.
"Amulet" really isn't worth the time, money or effort, and there are far better choices in the horror genre.
It was the abysmal storyline that made this movie into a stinking pile of... well, you get my drift here. The storyline was just so unfathomably slow paced, and with virtually nothing of anything of noteworthy interest happening, it just felt extraordinarily prolonged. And it felt more like it was a sentence to sit down and watch "Amulet" than it was a movie for entertainment.
I will say that the acting in the movie was adequate, especially taking into consideration that writer Romola Garai had virtually given the actors and actresses nothing to work with. Nothing. And the movie had a relatively small cast ensemble, so they had to up their game and really deliver to carry the movie. This failed to be the case, because they just didn't have the material to work with.
For a horror movie, then "Amulet" was just dreadfully mundane and boring. There was nothing scary in the movie at all. Not even a single, cheaply and easily acquired jump scare. Yeah, so go figure...
I will say that the prosthetics were good, and I did like the design of the bat. And the whole birthing thing was actually interesting enough. But these could just do nothing to salvage the train wreck that is "Amulet".
My rating of "Amulet" is a generous three out of ten stars, mostly because there was a good production value to the movie. I managed to suffer through the entire course of the movie, so you don't have to. And as for the ending of the movie, well while it was just so obvious and you saw it coming a mile away, something could be said for that being a classic way of ending a horror movie.
"Amulet" really isn't worth the time, money or effort, and there are far better choices in the horror genre.