Rosario

I enjoyed the connection of thriller and horror scenes with real life ancestral and strong cultural references. It has a good amount of special effects, and the right doses of building up tension, suspense an gore. The plot also flows with some humor, and there are a few twists on the plot that keeps you wondering until the end... Camera work also involves sidewise effects, short sequences with impacting soundss that are not disturbing, and good editing.

There are a few stereotype depictions of NYC and Latin cultures on the film, but overall, it reflects a balanced blend of modern and ancient generations, and a moral to the story.

The writing was pretty bad. My favorite part was when she had to look up the religion and she said" cauldron, sticks, skulls" into Google( after searching witches, and the occult or some crap) and the first thing she tapped on was this one religion. It was just all around super corny. And not like good Evil Dead Corny, like not well made corny. . The premise was pretty cool and would have been rad if it had a different set of writers, and maybe a different director. And also different actress. I got total Jennifer Lopez vibes with the acting. Which as we all know, she's a horrible actress. I can say it was fun making fun of it with my husband so we didn't leave halfway through although we thought about it.

Rosario is a frustratingly good movie. I say that because, on almost every technical level, it's solid. The production value is high. The cinematography is stylish and moody, perfectly complementing the eerie tone the director clearly worked hard to build. The acting? Strong across the board. The atmosphere? Genuinely creepy at times-unsettling in the best way. I want to like this movie more than I do. I should like it more than I do.

But I can't. Because of Rosario herself.

The main character, Rosario, is-put bluntly-an idiot. And I don't mean the typical horror movie brand of "bad decision-making" we've come to expect from side characters. I mean she's the lead, and her defining trait seems to be astonishing stupidity. We're told she's a savvy Wall Street investor, but nothing she says or does reflects that. In fact, almost every awful thing that happens to her throughout the movie is a direct result of her own thoughtless, reckless, or laughably naïve decisions.

At first, I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she was in over her head. Maybe her arrogance would be part of a character arc. But no-she just keeps making choices so bafflingly dumb that I stopped rooting for her entirely. And once you lose investment in your protagonist, the whole movie starts to lose its grip.

It's a shame, because there's real talent behind the camera. The filmmakers clearly know how to craft tension, build mood, and shoot a good-looking film. The script, unfortunately, doesn't give the lead much intelligence or agency-and watching her stumble from one boneheaded decision to the next becomes less suspenseful and more comical as things go on.

Rosario is a well-directed, well-acted horror film that's undone by a main character so devoid of basic intelligence or self-preservation instincts that it breaks the immersion. If you're okay watching a beautiful, creepy movie with a protagonist who constantly deserves what's coming to her, you might enjoy it more than I did.

This film really drags man. That's about the summary of this entire feature, it's a film tackling a very tired and cliche realm of horror, whilst also a film that's throwing some cultural patronage - which it doesn't fail at, however when it comes to most horror aspects, it falls flat. This film offers some little eye openers here and there, nothing spectacular, moreorless predictable circumstances you'll see from miles away. Some poorly timed jumpscares, bad audio and extremely predictable scenarios sprinkled among a plot that drags, this wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen, but if you're gonna take time to see it in theaters like I did, congratulations. You've got great patience. Some people will appreciate this film, but at the very least, it tried - it's extremely basic in every regard all in all.

Honestly wish I had something better to say about this film but I thought this movie was very ridiculous and not well made in any way. The pacing of this film is all over the place, it doesn't have an understanding of where it is trying to go and there is no real story to this film. This movie just jumps to each scene with a single actress who talks to her self and tries to solve a mystery alone. The only thing this film has to stand on is how ridiculous of a film it is that you could just sit there and laugh at how ridiculous some of these scenes are. This film really tried to be a cultural piece but couldn't have done a worse job with the execution.