Review of Something Wicked (2014) by Hugo G — 18 Mar 2015

3.9/10.

Initially from watching the trailer I thought this would be a good movie and also this was supposed to be Brittany Murphy's last film so I really wanted to watch it. And so I did, but I was completely disappointed, which now I know why it was delayed for so many years. But still, it had a few good things, like for example, Murphy's performance which I thought was the best of the whole film-which isn't saying much-but she was indeed good and did in fact gave the movie a little lift, although I have to say that I was very distracted by her appearance specially her hair. Nonetheless, everyone else's performances weren't very good and almost like a joke, and by that I'm referring to Shantel VanSanten and John Robinson, who really had some bad scenes. Moreover, the editing was terrible, one of the worst I've seen, the continuity of scenes was dreadful, and the obvious extra footage that was added between scenes looked too obvious and out of place and really killed the timing. Therefore, a lot of the problems of the movie were technical and of the delayed production, which really made the movie look extremely bad. Also, the script was kind of all over the place and not very good. At first it was interesting to be kind of guessing what was going on and stuff, but after too much it becomes tiresome and too illogical, like in this case. Thus, the obvious outcome was that this movie was bad, and I don't know why I wanted it to be good, maybe to be a well deserved farewell to Brittany Murphy, but instead it was a one that probably should've kept shelved and unseen. Although I have to admit that it wasn't the worst movie I've seen in content, but editing and script wise, killed the movie completely.

~March 19, 2015~.