The movie began with an honestly interesting premise, but quickly heaped on the 'colonizer' guilt and had a drastic and awkward tonal shift in the third act that made it feel like a completely different team wrote and filmed the ending.
The family was unlikable, aside from the mom and son. The father is an emotionally absent workaholic and the main protagonist is a whiny, self-centered, smug and preachy teenager who rants about Thanksgiving being a holiday celebrating stealing native land, genocide and comparing Pilgrims to Nazis. The person we're supposed to cheer for was the one I wanted to die first.
The movie begins with delicate, rising tension but suddenly quickly shifts into Army of Darkness/Dead Alive-like absurdity that feels like a completely different movie than the first half.
When you're cheering for the bad guys to slaughter the protagonist, your movie is a terrible failure. This was the first of the series I've watched and based on this, I'll be avoiding the rest.
The family was unlikable, aside from the mom and son. The father is an emotionally absent workaholic and the main protagonist is a whiny, self-centered, smug and preachy teenager who rants about Thanksgiving being a holiday celebrating stealing native land, genocide and comparing Pilgrims to Nazis. The person we're supposed to cheer for was the one I wanted to die first.
The movie begins with delicate, rising tension but suddenly quickly shifts into Army of Darkness/Dead Alive-like absurdity that feels like a completely different movie than the first half.
When you're cheering for the bad guys to slaughter the protagonist, your movie is a terrible failure. This was the first of the series I've watched and based on this, I'll be avoiding the rest.