Review of A Monster Calls (2016) by Dontbenasty — 19 Feb 2017

I have an umbelievably negetive bias against this movie. The same kind I have for bridge to terabithia. For starters I went in blind into this film with only a trailer. To get the positives out of the way, good image, good acting, good effects.

So, 3 for the objective things. Back to the reason I dislike such films. I was expecting to see a more dramatic monster movie. Unfortunately its only the dramatic part thats true. The monster is some sort of an alegory or imaginary friend.

To the film's credit it was not bait and switch, like, terabithia was. I had hoped that this movie was going to be a monster movie even partially. It was not. My feeling towards it would be no different if I knew exactly what the film was about.