Anti-Woke Perfection

Not only is this not woke it's fully anti-woke. The acting is good and the humor is spot on. This feels like one of those classic 90's comedies when movie makers weren't afraid to be offensive with their humor. The story and humor highlights the stupidity of the woke ideology and exposes it for the mental disorder that it is.

Ok For a Younger Kids Movie.....Maybe.

DEI overrepresentation in casting is about the extant of woke. This is basicaly a 80's or 90's throwback kids horror movie.
It's not the worst thing ever but the acting is pretty bad by all the kids. It's a bit cliché but the story could of worked with better acting and writing. Younger kids may enjoy it but that's about all.

Another Unfunny 'Comedy'

Listed as a comedy but I don't see how. It's really just incompetent old white male failing. It's not funny at all, just a drama. It's meant to be a fish out of water with a character faced with unfamiliar situations. The problem is the Keaton character seems to be terrible at everything. Hes a bad father, bad husband and seemingly a bad business man as he's horribly in debt and about to loose his business. When a character is this incompetent at everything the fish out of water scenario doesn't work as it just comes off as pathetic and not funny. The acting is fine but some of dialogue is poorly written especially the kids. This is another movie where the kids lines are unrealistic for their ages. No 9 year olds talk or act like this little girl does. The son is almost completely ignored
and could of been left out of the movie entirely as the smart competent 9 year old girl helping her clueless father is the focus. Then
there's the gay guy who just sobs like a infant every time the wind blows.

Amateur Arthouse Fail

Implied mixed race hook up where the beta white manbun is obsessed with the black female and wants more than a one time hookup
but the black female shoots him down. The U.S. president speaks with a british accent for some stupid reason. The acting and dialogue in general are not good. The background music is odd and out of place. This is listed as a political satire, dark comedy, horror but it's painfully
unfunny, slow and dull. As a horror it fails as well. The FX look cheap and there are no scares. Add to this weird lighting and terrible green screen shots and it just comes across as a failed attempt at arthouse cinema.

Generic Woke YA Dystopian Junk

Climate change environmental fearmongering. A lot of DEI casting. Her male friend/ possible love interest leaves and becomes 'pretty' and completely changes and ignores her, she is rescued by a seemingly lesbian admirer and just forgets her childhood friend in like 10 seconds and becomes best friends with the character. Her new love interest is of course a black male. Black trans head of the pretties is played by a mentally ill trans actor. At the beginning she says mirror make me pretty and its just her in professional air brush makeup and contacts. The uglies are just actors without makeup and the pretties are full professional hair and makeup. That's literally it. It's all surface level shallow bs. The acting is ok is suppose with some passable green screen backgrounds. The story is nothing new, and its all been done before in a dozens of YA dystopian books and movies. The action and stunt scenes are awful while the CG is low budget garbage (the bungee jacket scene followed by the hoverboard scenes are laugh out loud bad).

More Anti-White Racism

Given that Brandy is a terrible actor and always has been her casting here is straight DEI. Of course her husband is white. Stepmom is a racist. Her awful acting is front and center in the first 5 minutes and it doesn't get any better. The writing is poor and makes no sense. One scene she's upset that her employment taking away some of her classes and afraid she might lose her job and then a couple scenes later she just suddenly quits because her boss missed their appointment, then the next scene she's complaining about not having money to buy a can of paint. Portrays Christians as crazy racist evil cultists. This is yet another slow boring drama attempting to leach onto the horror genre to trick people into watching. There is nothing scary, no blood or gore, no kills. Just a senile old annoying woman's bodily functions. It's racist anti white trash, nothing more.

Low Budget Nonsense

Some DEI casting. Cheap CG. Acting and dialog are not so good. More bad writing. Terrorists blow up 2 bombs on a bridge trapping and cutting off the police van and they don't bother to immediately call in support even though the enemies take forever to work there way up to the actual transport they want to attack. The main character calls in 911 to report bombs going off and terrorists on the bridge and is told by operator they don't have the authority to dispatch anyone. Also if I'm understanding the badly explained story the woman being transported is a witness set to testify against the villains. That should be a WITSEC program with the U.S. Marshalls not a police prisoner transport as this is a federal military issue, and why would you put your witness who is a target in a bright red jumpsuit? Just one police van with 3 officers and no escort at all. The main villains terrible over acting is laughable every time he's on screen. There's not even any good action to save this low budget stinker.

Wasted Potential

The black friend is a token DEI hire. All the male characters are useless and just there to be killed. I actually don't recall a single female character dying or even really being hurt. Jester character is the highlight and has some creepy moments. The acting is not very good with a couple of average but mostly bat actors. Some awkward dialog and long conversations between characters hurt the pacing. Some jarring editing between scenes as well. Other than the F-bombs its all very PG-13. The blood is minimal with no real gore and the kills are pretty tame. The older sister is a nasty miserable generally unlikable character.

Within 3 min teen male character states he is a lover of boys. DEI heavy casting in the U.K. with an 83 percent white population. White girl is of course instantly attracted to the black kid who naturally the gay white male also wants. The straight white male is a complete p.o.s. who tries to assault a teenage girl and is killed. This is all within the first 20 minutes. By this time it's obvious this is going to be an agenda driven woke fest so that was it for me.

Not Really Horror.

Nothing really woke. Main actress is actually pretty good, everyone else is terrible. The voice on the phone at the beginning is
notably awful. Sounds like someone reading of a cue card. Long drawn out awkward pointless conversations between characters that seem totally unnecessary. All of the dialog is poorly written and seems unnatural. The whole CPS interaction is nonsense. CPS cannot gain access to your home without a warrant. The likelihood of getting on based on 1 single generalized welfare complaint is pretty much zero. Even if you let them in voluntarily they have no authority to just run around your home looking wherever they want much less requesting to see behind a closed door then when denied open it anyway. Then when you find nothing just demand a follow up appointment with your child present. This writer knows nothing about CPS. The entire movie is shot
with minimal lighting making some scenes are to see what's even happening. I checked out at the 40 min mark but based on reviews elsewhere it gets worse as it goes.