Due to a settings glitch, Chucky’s contemporary incarnation (voiced by a cutesy-creepy Mark Hamill, who has done better voice work elsewhere) eventually goes the way of his predecessor, wreaking widespread havoc - just with a lot less panache.
In 2019, Aubrey Plaza plays Karen Barclay, the young mom to Andy (13-year-old Gabriel Bateman of Annabelle and Lights Out fame), who by chance receives an AI-equipped Buddi doll after the defective toy is returned to his mother’s store. Unfortunately, Child’s Play is undone by a lack of tension even its best performances can’t conjure, and a familiar story that only skips lightly along the surface of gnarly ideas. Garish Christmas lights and drones equipped with razors - both of which feature in the film as fantastic weaponry - are amusing, but they’re only as effective as the limp horror story around it.
Child’s Play, the new slasher reboot of the Chucky franchise, directed by Lars Klevberg, half works.
0 kommentar(er)
