Yep, I enjoyed it. Kind of figured out how it would end although
Spoiler: ending spoilers
I thought it would be the son, given his night terrors etc.
Solid film, though and Scott Derrickson did a nice job on it - looking at his previous credits, this must be his best film to date. Still a few too many jump scares, but it was well paced and different enough to be well worth a watch.
I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane.
Super dumb, but just edges out Olympus Has Fallen in the fun stakes overall. Olympus still has the superior action set-piece with the opening attack and WHD has clearly been toned down for violence (I guarantee there's a harder cut coming to DVD), but this was still a passable couple of hours. The car chase on the White House lawn is probably the highlight, though there's a nice helicopter attack sequence too. The effects are nowhere near as bad as they seemed in the early trailers, in fact I thought the whole film looked pretty nice. Chan Chan is fine, but everyone else apart from James Woods seems to not have much to do, including Foxx. Always nice to see Jason Clarke as well.
Fun, but probably a once and done for me.
I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane.
It lost some steam towards the end (ironic?) and I didn't care for the final scene at all, but McBride, Cera and Franco were all great. Also, Pineapple Express 2.
I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane.
I didn't really dig This is the End that much. It meandered far too long in the beginning, and other than Craig Robinson and McBride nobody really impressed me.
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