Four kidnappers grab an eight-year-old rich kid named David (Blake Woodruff) from his birthday party, hoping for a quick payday. Unfortunately, he may not actually be human.
The elevator pitch for this was probably pretty good: what if you grabbed a kid but it turns out it was Damian from The Omen? But the final product is pretty boring. There's not enough sense of the characters, David is smug but not very menacing, and the stakes feel very low overall. The kills are mostly bloodless, too, so you can't even get joy from the splatter. Weak sauce. Also a Christmas movie. If I had known that, I wouldn't have watched it back to back with Jaws 4. Now I want peppermint hot chocolate.
It's not currently streaming anywhere for free so at least you're unlikely to stumble across it and waste your time by accident. Small mercies.
No comments:
Post a Comment