REVIEW:
Here’s a movie that has all the right things working for it with setup, but absolutely none of them working with execution. It would be easy to say that the first half is good and the second half is bad, but that isn’t really the case. You see, the first half does the right moves, but they are all very generic. It gives us a formula we’ve seen before. And we are expecting the second half to pull the rug out from under us and give us some cool reveals and twists. Only it doesn’t.
The movie is about a soldier who arrives at the house of a family whose son they lost in war. He says he knew their son. He has a picture to prove it (kind of.) And so they invite him in to stay. For a number of nights. The veteran turns out to be a psycho, and the rest is history. No explanation for why he is a psycho, what happened that made him this way, or what he was planning to do by coming to stay with the family.
It’s kind of bizarre how little this movie answers. And it is very unsatisfying. To be fair, the movie is kind of interesting. Especially in its first half, when it has potential. In the second half, when it drops the ball and just has our protagonist start killing everyone, the interest fades away.