If you're a fan of horror, skip this - it's a real yawner. If they had made this as a straight drama and dropped the pretense of it being a horror movie then I think it would have been really good had they set the premise as an aging genocidal dictator's false family life based on his supposed innocence crumble around him as his family discovers the truth about his atrocities. THAT movie I would have enjoyed. This? OMG, endless noise from the protestors outside, odd scenes with the spirits of the dead, and it just was boring in its telling of the story. I did really like the testimony of one of the natives who related some of the atrocities in front of a commission but it could not make up for the other deficiencies. The real horror to have been mined in this movie should have been the inhumanity of man to man, not this spirit theme which was not horrifying at all. I willed myself to keep watching it but with 25 minutes to go I was so irritated with it that I cut my losses - do yourself a favor and don't even watch it.
Review of La Llorona
