Review of Barbarian

Barbarian (2022)
5/10
Feels like 3 different writers wrote 3 different segments bunched them together.
5 June 2023
...and the result was so so.

It's hard to describe this movie without spoiling any value the twist in it have so bare with me.

One thing about this movie is that when I first watched it I felt very bored. It took me about 4 days or so to sit down and commit to watching through the first 20 minutes. The story starts out really slow and uninteresting. Slow horror building up is fine except in this movie is made to provide misdirection and nothing else.

By the time you get to the decent part of the film the movie is practically over and you sort of wonder as to why they didn't put more time developing the better parts of the story.

The movie starts out with a young woman who is renting an Air B&B for some sort of interview she's going on. She meets a guy who is somehow also staying there in a fluke at the same time. Is he a good guy or a bad guy? He acts creepy as the two get to know each other.

Then the story switches into darker territory and you realize things aren't what they seem. Then it switches again into a light hearted comedy almost and then back into a horror film.

I also feel like there's some sort of moral story going on in the background but it just seems to be a horror movie around men that prey on vulnerable women and it unfolds in various ways.

Now is it entertaining? I guess but it's also forgettable. As you watch the movie you realize that there are more interesting aspects of the horror portion of the story that should have gotten more screentime and instead it had the fat trimmed from it and just didn't seem as flavorful afterwards.

This movie also has one of those non conclusive endings which is extremely annoying as you're left to wonder how things resolved themselves.

I would recommend this movie as a warm up to watch if your 2nd movie is a better choice. This movie is too discombobulated to be satisfying as a horror movie. It has so many different directions it's told in and none of them fit well together or should I say the constant shifting and mode changing doesn't fit well together.

It ends up not being scary or a horror movie and something more like "The Goonies" in the end.
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