Review of Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) by Matt S — 06 Nov 2011
Beware of Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale because it's just not that good as most critics claims. I do think it had a somewhat imaginative approach having a dark twist on the old childrens tale about Santa Claus with some wit and charm but in the end it just didn't work effectively.
At only 80 something minutes it felt like forever to get to the point and when it does nothing great happens just a bunch of old naked men running around who I guess are Santa's elves trying to protect him, you don't even see the actual Santa!!!! All the elements they try to blend never mesh well together and the execution of them was underwhelming, the horror didn't have terror just a crumb of suspense, the comedy didn't have the wit, the adventure didn't have thrills, the fantasy I didn't get lost in just detached and the charactures just didn't have enough background to care about them or care about their story.
Overall it's an ridiculously overrated and lackluster dark christmas tale that has zero magic and zero thrills and payoff and it was distractingly silly once you see the big picture and who knew christmas could be such a disappointing bore if you don't have the right ingriedients.
Skip it! 5 out of 10.
This review of Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) was written by Matt S on 06 Nov 2011.
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale has generally received positive reviews.
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