Review of Eli

Eli (I) (2019)
5/10
Better then expected but still not great
20 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Just from the trailer it didn't look very appealing but I went for it anyway because I'm a sucker for a Netflix film, you never know what you're gonna get.

Firstly the acting from Charlie Shotwell was really impressive. The first half or even three quarters was actually really good and it had me guessing what was gonna happen. I was fully looking forward to what the big conclusion of this film was going to be.

I felt it was extremely unneeded for them to go down the devil route. What makes a horror film scary is the realism of it. The first part of the film was realistic, it had me thinking the parents have have been making the child ill on purpose because they like controlling him or something. However no they went down the bible and devil road and it just killed the film for me. It makes the film really none scary when it's so unrealistic.

They had the tools to make a great horror film which there isn't much of but they missed. Went too off script and unrealistic for me.
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