Review of The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) by Nathan W — 10 Nov 2018
Now the main stand out on the acting department for me was Cate Blanchett. She had the comedic timing down packed and was still able to have some serious scenes. The visual effects in some scenes looked pretty good but others just looked out of place.
But for a majority of the film they did look very good. This film is classified as a horror film so it's supposed to be scary right? Well, it's scary if you're thirteen and below unless you're scared easily then it might be scary for you as well.
Now you don't get to meet the villain of the film until it's halfway done and it's not even that captivating of a villain. In a movie like this, the villain should be somebody that you fear and want to be against, but he was just a laughably bad villain.
His plan is generic and not original, and his entire plan revolves around one thing that only happened by accident. Then there's the pacing in this film. Remember how I said it took it halfway through the film to finally meet the main villain? Yeah, that was all because the pacing in the entire film was off.
It seemed to drag out way too much like they thought they had a longer run time. Due to the first half and part of the second half is slow it caused the climax to seem rushed and not flow smoothly. There didn't seem to be any character growth either, again probably due to the terrible pacing.
In the end, "The House With a Clock in its Walls" is a good time for kids who like being scared.
This review of The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) was written by Nathan W on 10 Nov 2018.
The House with a Clock in Its Walls has generally received mixed reviews.
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