 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 2019 film Villains and when I'm doing this review I watched it on Hulu and that's the only place I had seen it Maybe it's somewhere else, but of the streaming services. I have just saw it on Hulu So I haven't heard a whole lot about this film Which was kind of weird to me going into watching this because built scars guard is in it and he has in a major role in this one of the main characters so I I was like, why have I not heard about this yet? I mean Bill scars guard is a big deal especially in horror right now, so I don't know it was weird But then I watched it and I was like, okay, I understand I had high hopes for the film for the fact that you know Bill scars guard was in it But also the fact that how the film was made in a sense and I'll talk about that a little bit more But in the mid it you know in the end. I thought the film was Okay Okay, I was let down I had I had high hopes and it did not kind of live up to that expectation so I was a little bit disappointed but Like I always say every film is worth watching at least once to decide if you'd like it or not My wife watch it with me. She quite liked it. She liked it quite a bit And I've seen a few other people who have said they loved the film Some people saying it was their favorite film they watched this year or one of the favorite films They watch this year, so check it out yourself make your own opinion So I will not be doing spoilers for this since it is such a new movie and I know a lot of people have not seen it So I'll just throw some things out there Written and directed by Dan Burke and Robert Olson. Now Dan Burke had done Steakland 2 and Robert Olson did don't kill it, which I have not seen I I saw the first Steakland I've not seen Steakland 2 yet. I heard it's Okay, and then together they worked on the film body Like I said Bill Skarsgard is in this one And this was the same year as it chapter 2 came out as well as Castle Rock season 2 That he was also in which he's he's an awesome actor. I mean he he does a great job in this film So there are main four main adult actors in the film and I thought they all did at least decent two of them I thought were okay Skarsgard was great and then Kira Sedgwick is in the film and typically I've not really liked Kira Sedgwick Sedgwick all that much and I know it's kind of a dumb thing But like her accent really bothers me and I know that's such like a childish thing and it's kind of stupid But just the thickness of her accent just kind of bothers me. I don't know what it is It's just something I have a hard time listening to I don't know if anyone else out there has those types of things, but Her performance in villains is great like she was the standout performance of that movie every time she was on screen I was like I was floored by her performance. She was phenomenal. She did such a great job I mean build like like I said Bill Skarsgard was really good in this Kira Sedgwick even better like she was Yeah, she did a great job with it So Kira Sedgwick's been in a lot of films But some of them being born on the Fourth of July murder in the first the woodsmen and the possession Just a sampling of it. So this script was actually picked up from black lists Now, I don't know if people know what black list is But it's basically a website for people who are not already in the film industry to go and market their scripts So it's very much, you know undiscovered talent now I know about this because I had actually put a script on there at one point No one picked it up big surprise. There's so many scripts on there I'm sure that do not get picked up But it was cool for me to be doing this research and find out that something legitimately got picked up and made from that site So that was awesome. And that's what put my hope so high because typically Studios just want to work with people. They've already worked with before and in my mind in order for them to work with People they haven't worked with before new blood new talent. It would take a very good script to make that happen now Maybe the script was a lot better than what the film ended up being I don't know and maybe there was something with the fact that the people who wrote the script were then able to direct it And maybe someone else should have directed it although now that I say that I feel like the directing was actually pretty good I mean cinematography was good directing was pretty solid like I Don't know. I don't know if they shave things out of the story. They edited stuff out that they had shot I don't know but it felt like there were things missing to this film and it felt very Stagnant a lot of times so that would bring me to the synopsis real quick. I want to be as vague as possible, but I'm It's a little spoiler-ish on the synopsis, but it's stuff that's in the trailer and out there That's being promoted before people see the film anyway So it's basically about a couple who are on the lamb and their car breaks down And they find a house that they break into and the people who own the house end up coming home Now while they're there, they find out that the couples how the couple whose house they broke into they kind of have They're not normal people. They have a secret and That's it. That's all I'm gonna tell you so very intriguing setup And I think one of the biggest things for my letdown with the film is that I felt like that secret Wasn't as big as I wanted to be or as interesting as I wanted to be I mean it could have been if they had fleshed it out further I feel like they introduced the secret and then you're just like, oh, that's you know That's kind of interesting slash disturbing and then they kind of just stay at that one note Idea basically it's just kind of that idea. They don't go very far into why and far into You know any really development in the film to be honest. I mean there is development in characters Mainly the initial couple They develop they kind of change so that is good. So I like watching their characters kind of become different people develop You know, I don't want to say too much about it But that aspect is good But I just felt like the overall like that big secret the big, you know plotline really needed to be Moved more and it wasn't so It has a start that's kind of a mix of goofy and intense and I think and I feel like that kind of gets maintained Throughout the film for the most part the goofy for sure the intense comes and goes But it sets a tone the way the film starts it sets a tone and it kind of carries that tone throughout so I think maybe another one of my issues with the film is that that kind of Goofiness to it and it being kind of described as like a horror comedy I don't think it services the story all that well to be honest I think if you take the comedic stuff out of it, which honestly the comedy isn't very funny to me So if you take the comedy out of it You can focus more on maybe being like a horror drama and it just being more of an intense situation Which I think would help ratchet things up make things more intense more unsettling Just saying just that's my opinion, but like I said, I know people who quite enjoyed it Early on I thought it's odd to see scars guard any less intense and serious role because he plays kind of a more light Not as not as intense and not as intelligent Role so it's a very different role from what I've seen him in typically But I thought he did a really good job kind of doing that comedic Relaxed role. I mean, he's obviously an actor who has a lot of range so awesome on him The film has a bit of a frantic start with some light But slightly mystery insinuating music That's one of the things that I really picked up on is I liked how they for the tone They were going for I like how they did the music because like I said, it's kind of like very light music almost a little bit, you know jaunty, but then it also has this slight tinge of like a Mystery insinuation within the music and it sounds a little weird for me to say that But if you've seen the film or if you do see the film, you understand what I mean, especially in the beginning It seems like the film is relying mainly on the way the characters act as quirky people For the comedy and that's one of the things I was talking about I didn't really like the comedy that much because the comedy I think was being derived clearly or Solely pretty much from the corkiness of the characters not from, you know Things that are said that are funny or things that are particularly particularly done that are funny But just this person's quirky. They're kind of a quirky character. Just laugh at them being a quirky person and and that doesn't really For me that comedy doesn't really work especially not in the context of this story. I just felt like it in a mesh There's an interesting chess match that kind of goes on between characters in this and that's one of the things that kind of drives The interest in the beginning now I have said that I was kind of let down by the film I was like eh, but You are Interested in the film the whole time or at least I was and that does say something You know, I at no point was I like oh, I feel like quitting on this film or I want to you know Go walk away and do something in the kitchen while I just listen to it I was engaged the whole time just because I wanted to know where it went It's just when everything was said and done. I was kind of like I Would have liked more Things get weird and as events unfold you keep wondering how much further it's gonna go down the path That speaks to the whole like, you know maintaining engagement with the film There are interesting scenes that go on too long So they start to feel stagnant and not interesting anymore. That is one of the biggest problems I had with this film there will be interesting scenes that happen and this happens numerous times in the film There's an interesting scene and you're like, oh, that's you know, that really pulls you and you're like I'm very intrigued but then they just stretch the scene out way too long and Nothing further develops nothing further happens. It's just Staying in that moment of this idea that's that's thrown out to you and you're just like Are we going somewhere like it is there's something else you're trying to tell me in the scene or You're just trying to hammer home the thing you've just said and already hammered home well enough and There are a lot of scenes like that. They just go on way too long and there's not enough substance It started to feel like they were trying to stretch the film to hit a certain Runtime and they didn't have the story for that Although with the story set up there could have been a lot of story for that There are so many paths They could have gone down with this story and chose not to at pretty much every turn they chose Probably the most boring route they could have taken Sucks that they did that There's a situation some characters end up in and the way they pop up out of that situation would not actually happen It is very fake I Was very much taken out of the movie at that point and I'm being very vague obviously because I don't want to give any spoilers But you'll know what I mean. I mean listen. I chose my words carefully on that There's a situation some characters end up in and the way they pop up out of that situation Wouldn't actually work so If you've seen it, you might know what I'm talking about if you do see it keep that in mind There is a cool shot at the end There's a really cool shot at the end which which I was like Oh, that's that's pretty nice and that speaks to what I was saying the directing the cinematography Pretty solid like I was saying the acting for the most part two people did a really good job two people were fine so now one thing I did not see coming and And This kind of contradicts something I said before I said by the end of the film I was kind of like I wanted more now. I liked the very end of the film. It just felt like You needed a lot more before it for it to really Keep your interest reading into that and also for it to have even more of an impact There is a kind of emotional ending to it that I did not see coming that I think is well written and I think is well Executed but everything before it like I was saying it's stretched out. It's stagnant the stories Not going down the past that are most interesting or even The second most interesting option or third or it's Yeah, so anyway There's a point in this that everyone has at least something that prompts them to act for the sake of good So that is an interesting aspect of the film There's a significant focus on relationships and how they insulate people from the outside world by creating a shared reality Which if you think about it, that's very true to real life You know when you especially now nowadays with the whole COVID life If you if you're not going out all that much like, you know people like myself You know your world is very small at that point like I'm still working, but I'm working solely from home I'm not really interacting with the people I used to work work with or I still work with them But used to physically in the same space work with in my office So you feel more detached and then what your world what your reality becomes is very very small and this film kind of takes that concept and looks at it within the context of romantic relationships of how Two people's relationships and two separate couples relationships can really insulate them from the rest of the world and create this Their own reality where they're not necessarily interacting with other people. They're not Necessarily acting in the interest of other people. It's just their little I don't want to say duality, but that's wrong. They're partnership basically. So just saying It's a that is an interesting aspect of it This film could have come off as quite disturbing if the tone was different And this is what I was talking about about keeping it kind of like goofy and light Just highlights how directing acting and music can take certain events and make it play many different ways and that is interesting I would love to see this film taken and the directing style and the character Corkiness changed and the music changed But have the exact same events otherwise happen in the film and it would be interesting because it would go from like kind of light and comedic to very dark and very disturbing and This film when you watch it just think about that like it really highlights how if you just tweak a few things You can have the exact same story the exact same events and it plays in a totally different light So that's just an interesting thing. So that's basically all I have to say about villains I mean out of five stars with half stars in play. I will I will level with you I'm between a two and a half and a three In the end I'm gonna go with the two and a half because I truly do feel conflicted On if I liked it or didn't like it There are definitely some things like I talked about that I really did enjoy about the film Including the ending, but it's just like the ending felt like it was on an island basically and it's just like oh, I got this good ending, but There's all this other stuff that was just like boring and just drawn out and just didn't really feel like it worked that well But yeah, so so I'm gonna go two and a half on this But but like I said, everyone just check it out for yourself. I know there will be people out there who love this film And that's great. 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