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I just got done watching the nun the nun was released last night This is a this is the second or third spin-off We've gotten in this universe if you're familiar with this universe and the conjuring films You know that the original conjuring was released in 2013 and it was a critical as well as a box-off of success Fans and critics alike gave this film praise I want to say the original conjuring as well as the original cities Those are the two better films from the early 2010 when we go back and look at this decade I feel like people will recognize the original insidious and the original conjuring more so than anything else from this decade because those two those two films literally stood out amongst the Packed of films that we're gonna be getting in this decade so far This movie here the nun Now let me talk about the character Valak. That's the character Valak was first introduced in the second conjuring film in the second conjuring film Valak is the entity that's revealed to be the Villain in charge because what we originally thought was that another entity was in charge But really that entity was being controlled by Valak. So what I like about this film is how it's an origin story into Valak and how We get to find out how Valak was introduced into this world and how it potentially was taken out of this world Now my official thought on the nun as a whole entire film. I think it was another decent entry into this franchise I don't think it was anything great. I don't think it was it wasn't bad It definitely was not bad, but it also wasn't great. It was a decent solid film for the universe I did like it, but it was not anything over the top. It wasn't anything spectacular. Nothing really impressive here. I Will say that the sound design the visual effects the acting The cinematography all of that stuff was fine. It was all solid the acting was solid The characters in the film. That's my that's one of my biggest grabs I don't think they spend enough time developing these characters so you so when you mix in characters that aren't fully developed with silent performances and Cliche typical character decisions that they make throughout the film in my opinion Which you're gonna be getting is a another decent film From for what you would come to expect from movies that come out in the 2010s from the horror genre This movie is very it has this it has the horror cliches the tropes The casual jump scare that occurs every other minute or two every other five minutes in this case I feel like a jump scare occurred in this movie every of the five minutes And what I will appreciate is that this movie doesn't waste any time letting you know that this this is gonna Just be a jump scare ride the first the first scare that we get in the film is in fact a jump scare The atmosphere in this movie is amazing. I like how they maintain that dark tone a Big big big big issue that I felt with this movie was how they did not Like the first 40 minutes of this movie. There's literally nothing happening. Nothing's really happening between the characters There's no real mention of Valak up until like I said 40 minutes into the film. We see Valak here and there But we don't really we don't really get a taste of what's to come the movie picks up and Literally in the third final act of the film the final the final like 20 minutes or final 30 minutes of the film That's the movie stronger point Now a lot of critics have been saying that this movie is boring. I did not find anything boring in this movie It was just a lot of nothing happening. I feel like the characters managed to keep me invested I was invested what was going on on screen. There was never a point where I wanted to look away It was just nothing was happening But the characters and the things they were getting themselves involved in kept me kept me glued to the screen Even though it was just a rant It was like random sequences of jump scares that eventually get summed up at the end of the film Because it ties into Valak and the origin of Valak another problem with the movie is how is Valak itself Valak Is not really shown too much in the movie and while I say that is a issue It's also kind of like a blessing in disguise if you will because what a lot of movies are doing now is they have their Horror villains and they show way too much of them So if you want to actually watch this series in chronological order You would watch Valak and then you would watch I believe the first two Annabelle films Or could be mistaken correct me if I'm wrong and then you would watch the original conjuring film Because what this movie does is at the end it sets up a it sets up perfectly to the first Entry in the conjuring universe it sets up the original conjuring film in a fantastic way There's a character in this movie that ties into something that we get told in the narrative of the 2013 conjuring film with Ed and Lorraine Warren So like I was saying Valak is not shown that much in this film But when she is shown or when it's shown they they managed to keep it in darkness Secluded it has the veil over It's not it's not just a straightaway giveaway of the face. The face is always were always edged into the face They don't just show it It's always like a build-up every time Valak's around they treated like it's a privilege to beginning to see this character on screen And that's what I appreciate about it They keep that mystery and that intrigue around the character. They keep it a factor But the character itself It's not for a movie to be about that entity or what we it seems that that's what the movie was going to be about the movies Really not about Valak because like I said Valak isn't even isn't even a factor in most of the movie. She It's kind of just pull it. It's kind of just the it feels kind of like a Like an accessory that's one thing I didn't like about the film Valak feels like an accessory Even though the movie is intended to be about Valak Valak feels like an accessory At the end of the day the movie was not bad I'm kind of in the middle with it It was a solid film another decent entry for the conjuring universe at the end of the day when it's all said and done if I wanted to Rate it from a scale of one to ten I'm gonna give it a six out of ten because like I said when you have Great performances mixed with the with the great cinematography and the sound design to visual effects with the poorly developed Characters and the typical horror cliches of the jump scares and all that other stuff that modern horror films do that equals a decent film in my opinion It is not bad. There are things that are left unanswered. That's why I'm giving it a six and not higher It can't go it can't in my opinion go any higher than that when there's there's a bunch of stuff that's left unanswered But I'm not going to go into spoilers. This is going to be a spoiler-free review I did enjoy the film if you guys have seen the nun Let me know what you guys thought down in the comment section below if you enjoyed the video give it a thumbs up Also subscribe so if you so if you want to see more of my future content You'll get notified all you have to do is hit the subscribe button to turn on the bell next to it Also down in the description of this video. I'll have links to my social media accounts I'm on Facebook Twitter and Instagram I also will have a link to my patreon account You can donate if you want to help the channel grow Let me know what you guys want me to review down in the comments section And I will be back with more videos in the future