Review of Child's Play (2019) by Thedoc182 — 22 Jun 2019
The new Child’s Play, whilst not as stand out to horror fans as the original, does more than enough plot wise to make it different. It runs with ai out of of control idea really well and even shows how an ai with no safety precautions could turn into what becomes Chucky.
Hamill is a great Chucky, doing well to avoid going into his joker whilst still offering a creepy evil voice, the actor playing Andy is brilliant, you can see the emotional rollercoaster this doll puts on him.
The cast does feel bloated with characters who had nothing to them but one little plot point, but none of them are outright bad. Pacing is a bit over the place, with a slow boil to begin with it trying to ramp up seeming to blow over scenes that needed a bit longer and others longer than they needed to be.
The effects are overall great with an animatronic doll skirting the line between what you could see done in real life and what’s uncanny valley, however the use of cgi in the third part really lets it down.
This review of Child's Play (2019) was written by Thedoc182 on 22 Jun 2019.
Child's Play has generally received mixed reviews.
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