Review of The Grudge (2019) by Zmgalen2000 — 13 Jan 2020
After watching this movie, the only grudge I have is against myself after having wasted 90 minutes of my life and a perfectly-good movie ticket seeing it. Overflowing with predictability, weak writing, and a virtually-nonexistent plot (if you can even call it that), The Grudge is a cauldron whose baren contents are nothing shy of a hodgepodge of mediocrity and inconsequential plot points.
The entire film lacked a central conflict from which the story could branch out and evolve. Rather, the movie frivolously, senselessly, and non-chronologically, skips from timeline to timeline, with each time chunk being permeated with overly-disturbing images to both discomfort the audience and deter from the film's scariest aspect: its inability to call itself a story.
It pains me to degrade Screen Gems, the studio behind this movie and many acclaimed films (such as Searching). Unfortunately, the studio entirely missed the mark, which they usually surpass with ease.
This review of The Grudge (2019) was written by Zmgalen2000 on 13 Jan 2020.
The Grudge has generally received mixed reviews.
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