A.C.’s Review: Found
footage movies live! Unfortunately. Worse THE VISIT is a combination of
found footage and not found footage so it doesn’t really know what it
wants to be.
The
set-up is a woman who has been estranged from her parents for years is
contacted via computer. They want to meet their grandchildren so the
woman sends them
off to grandma and grandpa while she goes on a cruise with her new
boyfriend.
Once
on the Pennsylvania farm the kids decide to do a documentary on their
visit as the 15 year old daughter is an aspiring filmmaker (hence a
chance to justify
the found footage aspect-her younger brother also has a camera). Soon
into the visit they discover their grandparents are acting strange…as
the week progresses the bizarre behavior escalates to the point where
the children’s lives are in danger.
I
debated whether giving away the “twist” in this review. (there has to
be a twist as it was made by M. Knight Shyamalan-known for his twists
since the reveal of
the big twist in THE SIXTH SENSE that put the director on the map. I
was going to but I changed my mind. I guess if anyone is going to go see
this they should at least get a surprise.
Just
a sidebar here…I paid extra to see this in an better theater because I
really like the big screen, better sound and great seats…only to have
the experience ruined
by a teenage girl who spent the whole movie playing with her cell
phone, taking selfies of her watching the movie and web surfing. I
kicked her chair to get her to stop but to no avail. An hour in a usher
came in and told her to turn it off. The usher hadn’t
even left the theater before she was back on it again. I didn’t move
because I paid extra to be in my favorite seats in the back row and I
wasn’t going to let her drive me away. If young people like this are the
future of the world I am very worried.
Anyway
I don’t really have anything good to say about this movie other than
there was some good humor from the 11 year old boy who fancied himself a
Vanilla Ice
type rapper. And I will give the film credit for making me laugh harder
than I have ever in years. While being terrorized by the grandfather in
the movies climax the boy gets something so vile shoved into his face
that it was hysterical! I almost laughed just
as hard during the end credits where the boy raps about his experience
and his line about what was smashed in his faced again brought down the
house.
Best scene: What I just described plus his rap about it in the credits.
A.C.’s Rating: DVD
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