The Sixth Sense director despatches a pair of charmless tweens to a predictable fate in a dull,derivative and dated dramaThis tardy rehash of fairytale tropes finds sometime genre innovator M Night Shyamalan clinging in abject desperation to the found-footage movement’s careworn coattails. Charmless tween siblings – Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) raps, while Becca (Olivia DeJonge) addends irksome Film-making 101 footnotes – are dispatched to their grandparents’ position in snowy Pennsylvania; there, and they and the target demographic receive a lesson in how oldsters are,like, totally creepy and coarse. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com