Mediocrity Week Continues: "The Tall Man"

It's a horror of a movie!


The Story:

In the former mining town of Cold Rock Washington, kids are going missing.  Local legend of "The Tall Man" abounds, as he is apparently the specter responsible for their disappearance.  When the local nurse (Jessica Biel) discovers her child is missing, she goes on a mission to get him back, and the revelations will rock this town to their very core!

Zzzzz.

It wasn't bad enough to click off at or before the 20 minute mark, but I could have cut my losses just as well...

It's a horror movie, without any horror!
It's a suspense movie with little suspense!
It's a preachy drama wrapped in false pretenses!

No, instead it's smoke and mirrors! An "everything you thought you knew about the movie is a lie" kind of tale.

And that's fine, to a point.

But you have to give us something substantial to believe in at first so that when the carpet is pulled out from under our feet, it is shocking and sends chills down our spine.

Instead it plays more like a "hey, we were so clever, you didn't see this twist coming, did you!?!"

Well no, not exactly when you give no hint that we should ever take what you are saying at anything less than face value.

Instead we are served a clumsy, plodding narrative that doesn't seem to know what it wants to tell as a story.



Basically, the villain of the story:

Liberals!


: )

Disappointed, but not surprised.

There is an underlying tone to the story that children would be better off with a parent that is better off financially, than left under the care of their own flesh and blood who aren't exactly rolling in the dough.

Hmm...

Maybe the villains are Conservative?

There is a potentially interesting story buried in here, but they failed on all parts to bring it out on screen.

Available to Stream on Netflix as of this writing.


Final Grade: D+
Would I Own It: Nope.