The Visit *
Dir: M. Night
Shyamalan. With: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie.
94 mins. Cert: 15
This 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 Filmmaking 101 footnotes – are dispatched to their
grandparents’ place in snowy Pennsylvania; there, they and the target
demographic receive a lesson in how oldsters are, like, totally creepy and
gross. An hour of numbingly tedious potter precedes the inevitable
twist-reveal, which plunges us into a risible final act combining the twin
pleasures of Yahtzee and adult incontinence. Dull, derivative and flatly
unscary: I’m afraid I see only a dead career.
The Visit opens in cinemas nationwide today.
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