Awake not Woke!

I almost didn't watch this due to the trailers looking pretty bad and I expected the worst. The first half hour or so was surprisingly better than expected. The comedy was more subtle and seemed like it was going in the right direction. However as it kept going I started to wonder when the horror would kick in. An hour into it and there is very little snake screen time and all the opportunities for horror elements are played strictly for laughs and comedy. Where the original is a horror monster movie with comedic elements this is a comedy all the way. The final 30 minutes when horror should of taken over completely for a big finale they went the complete opposite direction into full over the top slapstick silly comedy. The original cost 45 million in 1997 versus the same budget for this one. With inflation the original would of cost 91 million today so this had half the budget that one did and it shows. The fx look bad, everything from the snake to the obvious green screen shots are very poorly done. It's not an overly woke movie but the 4 main characters consist of 3 white men and a token black female. There is also the typical badass female character thrown in. Toward the end there is an obvious scene of the 3 white male's cowering in fear getting saved by the black female character. There is also a very weird awkward unfunny scene where a male character attempts to pee on another male character but he has anxiety and can only pee sitting down. It goes on way too long and is completely random and out of place. It's in the middle of what should be an action sequence and screeches everything to a halt for a long man peeing on another man joke.

Not at all what I was expecting. The first 40 minutes or so had a decent if improbable start but than it sort of stopped and went off into corny rom-com territory. Another true story movie that is basically all fake and made up. The basic character of Gary and his fake hit man is true but pretty much everything else is b.s. including the love story that is central to the entire movie as well as the 'surprise' ending. The acting is ok and there are some humorous scenes but I just didn't find it all that funny. It also seemed to be a bit long at 2hrs for the story it was telling. I finished it and it isn't terrible just could of been better. The only woke is the usual DEI overrepresentation and the love interest just had to be Spanish so we can get that mixed race box checked. I feel like this is another 2.5 star movie but I think it's decent enough to bump up to 3 stars.

1 of the skits has 2 annoying unlikabe feminist type characters call 8 year old boys misogynsts for no reason othwise nothing really woke. This franchise is an anthology series of found footage horror shorts. I've watched one of them before but can't remember which one. The acting is pretty bad in almost every segment, none of them are scary, it's just tons of screaming and gore. The FX range from mediocre to bad the stories are pretty boring and these suffer the same problems all found footage type movie do. I suppose if you enjoy the franchise or don't mind found footage it's sort of ok but frankly I was bored by the second segment and started skipping ahead to others to find any that were a little better. They all sort of feel like a bunch of film students with an iPhone shooting home movies with minimal budget.

The daughter is a lesbian, and the moment the shit hits the fan, her father becomes inept, hysterical, and stupid (dumb evil white man in a suit and tie), while the mother remains calm and rational. Typical feminist role reversal. The script is incredibly bad, the movie makes zero sense. The family's stuck in a bathroom, which looks like a flat actually, and they're peeing in front of each other, and there's no explanation why they're stuck in it rather than just being stuck in the house with all the rooms being accessible.