Awake not Woke!

Burning ruin of rationality because of Wokeness

Environmentalism is still a large part of the film’s narrative, so is the biased assumption of skin color and morality as Quaritch once brought up, and even a pregnant alien female takes part in the battle that is very irresponsible just for a show of feminism, that and other instances of feminist “warrior” culture. Paganism is plenty in this movie. Aside from deifying the environment as some sort of God that hates humans, it emphasizes the message of following your path in faith that is a displacement of the message that God determines our paths out of goodness. On top of that, the “goddess” of Pandora is made to be a manifestation of nature against mankind. It also pushes transhumanism in the transformation of Spyder to become a Pandora native.

Kind of fun, bloody, indie horror

The acting actually isn't as terrible as I'd expected and at least The Demon Inside isn't made on a cell phone. The sound quality and lighting isn't amateur and the plot is serviceable. That's really cool. I wish more indie films were made with higher quality equipment and better caliber actors like this one. I even bumped my rating a little higher just for that. Don't expect a lot, but it's worth a watch. I was surprised to learn that I think these indie films are mostly woke free because they don't have to bow to their corporate overlords for funding and have less need to appeal to everyone and anyone. ... Minor spoilers ... It's mainly about a dude with a drinking problem who's house is possessed by a demon. He and his wife call upon a group of nutty ghost hunters to try and relieve the home of demons, but that doesn't work. There's a fair amount of blood, no apparent CGI and it's free of any and all woke aspects.

Not bad.

Wokeness: I didn't notice any agenda. I love a good whodunit story. This one isn't too bad. The lead character, Benoit Blanc, seems to be a mashup of literary detectives, Poirot, Dupin, and maybe Holmes. The mystery is a play on a Dickson Carr story, The Hollow Man. That is, a locked room murder. They even reference the book in this movie. There are a few weaknesses in the basic plot, but, overall, it's worth the watch. I will opine that this isn't Craig's best work.

While there are a few comments that could be considered wokish they are done in the context of a joke and for humor and not preachy or forced so I'm not marking it for that. This is another yearly watch for the holidays for us. Good acting and writing. While the jokes are good and well done it's more of a solid humorous Christmas movie than a laugh out loud one though there are some of those as well.