Review of Barbarian (2022) by Luisroman0233 — 25 Sep 2022

This movie upset me a lot, and it’s not because of the “woke” allegations people are claiming it to be. It’s because the movie falls flat with a great premise and unique shots of cinematography but all around worthless plot.

From the get go this movie presents extremely good tension and suspense, however it subverts your expectations well, unnerving yourself due to your own expectations. It presents interesting premise which is the main antagonist being not some hugely scary monster from outer space or demonic possession but a creation of inbreeding and rape, solidifying at least some form of tangibility with our real world.

However that’s where my praises fall flat, as to the characters that aren’t directly in peril or at least when they aren’t have no real reason to be there at all. For starters, our main character presents herself to be a pretty successful, likable and all around inoffensive marry sue, with a partial plot line of her applying to a position for a film that is set within the location our characters are at.

And that’s it, that’s all we get from her, there’s no self growth, there’s no expansion on her plot there’s nothing for her except being a person to be chased by said monster. Our second protagonist is a playboy tv star that is nothing more than the typical frat douche, he has no real personality other than that.

With his plot line that’s presented is that he raped a woman and is being held accountable. Due to his expenses being too much for him to handle he ends up in his own rental property (the location of this film and main area where the horror takes place) he ends up believing there’s squatters in his house and proceeds to go look for them and then ends up in the situation with the first main character (don’t want to go too far as to spoil the entire movie as there is some playability and a reason to sit down and pay attention) and then he serves no purpose as to be another person being chased.