Review of Ma (2019) by Trineo99 — 01 Jun 2019

First of all, Octavia Spencer is great as Ma. She easily switched from being that nice old lady who lives next door to that psycho killer next door in a matter of seconds. She was probably the only good thing in this movie.

All of the other actors you could tell were trying their best with what they were given but it just ended up being really boring to watch. Diana Silvers was probably the best one out of all of them. Now, I’m not going to put all the blame on the actors for this because even though this movie is one hour and thirty-nine minutes long it feels like a two-hour long movie.

The film feels really slow throughout the entire first act and doesn’t pick up speed until the last little bit. This wouldn’t be a problem if there was something interesting going on but there wasn’t.

The characters were either at Ma’s house or doing something in their everyday lives and this isn’t a spoiler because it’s in the trailer. I feel like this film would have been better as a short film than a full feature-length film.

A lot of the scenes in this movie also just awkwardly ended with no purpose. One thing I do want to mention is that if you are interested in watching this movie do not watch the trailer because the trailer spoils pretty much everything in the movie.

I will not say what scene from the trailer it is, even though if you watch it you can easily figure it out, gives away the entire ending to this movie. In the end, this movie really isn’t worth a watch because the trailer spoils it and it’s only worth watching for the last 10 to 15 minutes.

I give Ma a 5.5/10.