the watchers review

positives

the watchers were a little creepy. the cast did a good job, and the music was good.

negatives

the watchers is personalityless and lacks imagination, it had an interesting idea but was done terribly. the last 25 minutes dragged on and were so boring and were frustrating and the plot twist could have been removed and added nothing to the story. this movie has a couple of twists but they were so silly and stupid its great in concept but awful in execution. this movie has creative ideas but none of them feel like they have imagination, it has a fine first act a bad second act,, and a godawful 3rd act. it has plotholes and the only character I liked was the bird. all of the characters were not interesting or good and in a movie with only 4 people the characters should be interesting or complex and none of them were and I didn't care about any of them in a slasher flick that's fine but this is more of a diologue movie but none of the writing or diologue is good. the movie also reveals who the watchers are way too early and once you learn who they are the movie starts to lose you. the movie also overexplawhat'shats going on. also how is everybodys hair not crazy and teeth not dirty and not stinky if they havent changed clothes in months and havent taken a shower in months. and the movie had bad pacing

pg 13 horror movies suck

pg 13 horror movies have a reputation for being bad and this one proves that even more. they are just made for money and are never good or creative and we have gotten many hated pg 13 horror movies this year: night swim, imaginary, tarot, the watchers. we have gotten zero good horror movies this year and even for the last year.

did Ishana shamalan earn this?

its clear that ishana shamalan is the daughter of famous director of M night shamalan, so its clear she didnt have to work that hard to make this and she jsut got to do it because she was the daughter of a celebrity, people who have to work hard to get there dream movie done make better movies than people who just get to do it easily. she should have done more stuff to prepare directing a couple of episodes of a tv show isnt enough if she had gotten some mroe experience with screenwriting and directing she could have made a better made.

how other people like it

it currently has a 30 percent on rotten tomatoes with critics hating it and audience members are also not liking it with a 52 percent and critics think it has a bad script and gets bad quickly.

plot breakdown

Mina, an American immigrant working in a pet shop in Ireland, struggles to come to terms with the death of her mother, becoming estranged from her twin sister in the process. Her boss asks her to deliver a valuable bird. En route Mina's car breaks down stranding her in a vast forest. After hearing unusual noises, she follows an old woman, Madeline, to a bunker-like building, nicknamed 'The Coop', and meets two other occupants, Ciara and Daniel. Madeline explains that a mysterious group called 'The Watchers' observe the group through the mirrored glass in the Coop every night. it has a interesting start but the fact that she killed her mother by accident adds nothing to the story and is so cliche since every horror movie does this and it feels like they didnt put effort into it and they just did it because horror movies always do sh*t like this now. and this introduction to the other characters sucks.

The next day, Mina discovers she cannot leave the forest and Madeline explains the rules: at night the Watchers kill anyone outside the Coop, and nobody must enter the Burrows, a set of tunnels under the forest where the Watchers stay during the day because of their photophobia. The group have been stranded in the forest for several months, without encountering a Watcher yet. Ciara's husband John left the Coop days ago, but has not returned. Mina bonds with Ciara and Daniel, but clashes with Madeline who follows the Watchers' rules obediently. Mina and Daniel explore one Burrow and retrieve several items, including an old bicycle and a camcorder; on glimpsing a Watcher burn itself in the sunlight, they flee. John appears at the Coop but Madeline refuses to let him in, insisting he is a Watcher. When "John" fails to verify himself to Ciara, he is attacked. The Watchers break part of the mirrored glass in the bunker; Madeline returns the retrieved items to the Burrow to appease the Watchers.

this had an interesting idea but was executed so poorly especailly since she tells him that there is a camera when he is obviosly a watcher and that is a stupid descision because then the camera is obvoisly going to get distroyed, and if the watchers only stand next to the mirror why did they put the camera infront of the door, oh right its so they could create this useless a*s idea

With winter falling, the group begin to turn on each other. Daniel locks Mina and Madeline out of the Coop at night, forcing them to seek shelter in the forest. They witness the Watchers, humanoid creatures that imitate the Coop occupants, react angrily to Madeline and Mina being absent. The pair get back into the Coop and Madeline explains that 'the Watchers' are a race of ancient beings called 'Changelings' or 'Faeries' attempting to learn how to imitate humans. The Watchers, furious at Mina's repeatedly breaking the rules, try to get into the Coop. The group discovers a hidden door leading to another bunker under the Coop filled with supplies, including a computer with video diaries of a professor who created the Coop. He discovered the Watchers and wanted to study them, but soon found they were better at imitating him than expected; he captured one Watcher and started to bond with it. In the last diary entry, the despondent professor explains how to escape from the forest and requests that his university notes be destroyed; the video ends with him climbing back into the Coop to kill the captured Watcher and himself.

he picked up the rug off of the floor for no reason it was just to have this scene and it is unlear why he picked the rug off and is obviously only there to create this scene too, also why are the watchers tryign to look like them?

The next day, the group discover that the Coop has been ransacked and they decide to follow the professor's advice to escape, reaching a river and boat as night falls. A Watcher mimicking John tricks Daniel into helping him and the Watchers kill Daniel. Mina, Madeline and Ciara manage to escape the forest.

this was so poorly executed and goofy and the character makes another descision when daniel knowing all of the information about how they mimic humans helps someone who is obviously a watcher which is a super stupid descision and his death was predictable

Mina heads to the professor's university to destroy his notes and there learns that the Watchers once lived in peace with humanity until a war broke out, forcing them underground. She also finds out about half-human half-Watcher hybrids, able to explore the world during the day. Mina visits Ciara at her home and shows her photos found in the office which reveal that Madeline was the professor's wife who died before he entered the forest, making Madeline the Watcher captured in the bunker by the professor.

this was a dumbass plot twist that is useless and this is where the movie starts dragging on and losing the audience and creates a second ending that is even worse than the already bad first one.

Ciara reveals herself to be Madeline when the real Ciara arrives at the house. Madeline changes her form in a sequence into Ciara, Madeline, John and then Daniel; she knocks Ciara unconscious and attacks Mina, revealing that she always wanted to escape the forest and is now planning to imitate Mina. Mina realizes that Madeline is a half-Watcher hybrid and talks her into letting go of her anger towards humans. Madeline transforms into her true Watcher form and departs.

Later, Mina reconciles with her sister. Meanwhile, Madeline, in the form of a human child, keeps watch over Mina.

this was a terrible ending that went on for way to long and was annoying.

1 star out of 5