Review of The Forest (2016) by Benthebrownie — 10 Jan 2016

Well folks, this film was a painful reminder that it's January. This is the worst movie of 2016. I'm not saying this because the kids in front of me checking snapchat, instagram and even mocking the Japanese people talking in the film.

I just genuinely hated the movie. Aside from Natalie Dormer's performance and and a few cool scenes. There isn't any point in watching this movie. The acting was annoying especially since the actors don't work well with each other each other at all except for Natalie Dormer and Taylor Kinney.

Their back and forth was at least watchable but for everyone else. I just wanted them to die! I was hoping the suicide demons would be like “Hey, come over here!” The actions and choices the characters made were unrealistic and clearly only made to keep the movie moving because if these characters were thinking logically the movie would've been like 10 minutes long and how awesome would it have been if this was a short film.

The director has made many shorts in the past and the movies plot was stretched out to such an extent so I think making this a short would've been the better choice. There is a difference with having a formula that causes you to hit a part in the plot that would be deemed predictable once or twice.

That's perfectly fine but having such a fully loaded agenda with nothing but cliches and annoyingly obvious jumpscares ruling the movie doesn't add anything good! It just takes away the audience and annoys everyone in the auditorium.

In the end, The Forest was an obnoxious film with annoyingly obvious plot devices. The cinematography was good and there were some cool scenes but everything else made me cringe. Not a good start to 2016.

I'm giving this one a 3.5/10.