Talk about stomping on your own toes...
The first half of this movie is great. Fun concept, great pacing, solid practical effects. Then as we approached the climax and I looked at the runtime, I saw it was only half over and thought "what is about to happen here?"
What happened was the entire first 50 minutes of the movie turns into a "I told you that story so I can tell you this one", and boy is it an…
Wait, so the little guy wasn't Kevin Hart? That can't be right...
The one-sheet implies this will be a hyper colored slasher-comedy, possibly with a 70's or 80's aesthetic, and the real movie couldn't be farther away. The first 40 minutes (of a 76 minute movie!) tries real hard to be 'Dazed and Confused' in a dull, dark skate rink, but the writing lacks the dialogue chops to pull it off. From that point it tries to be 'Friday the 13th' with a masked killer knocking kids off one-by-one but ends up…
I was about 3-1/2 hours into this 90 minute movie before I realized "Oh! These people all think they're hilarious..."
