My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Final (2009)

I don't know the purpose of this film.  It's anti-bully and at the same time seems to glamorize high-school terrorism.  A film like this made ten years after the Columbine High School shootings seems irresponsible.  I don't care how cruel these "popular" kids were to the five outcasts turned monsters in this film, their night of payback is not justified or entertaining as a horror film.   If the film had been more of a conflicting drama and less a cheaply made torture film I might see a reason for it being made.  Instead what you have here is a bad horror film that lacks any moral complexities.  A slasher flick pretending to be something else, something its makers don't even understand.  Skip this trite, predictable and worthless film.  Grade: C-

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