What a fever dreaming feeling movie. It´s been a while since I saw a movie with nearly no plot. It´s one of those movies that feels like someone filmed a thousand hours of footage and then cut that footage into a million bits, desperately trying to make a movie out of it. Sprinkle in bad acting, morbid and out of date humor and you get a big mess I have no idea why you would watch.
After the death of their father, a family moves to a new home called the elks eye. Here they find a magician inside a pen and shady people wanting to get inside their home.
This is such a tough movie to talk about. It doesn't really have anything going for it and it´s more of a random order of events movie than one with an actual plot. Talking about its story will only make it sound incoherent and nonsensical, which it is. First of the fathers death and the mother moving on plotline is just there and never really resolved or done anything with. The fakir is just added to the movie to have magic I think, he doesn't impact the plot at all and feels like an afterthought. The diamond plotline is the most sensical and even that takes a backseat to a movie busy about not being about anything. The undertaker also feels like a late addition but at least his fun, until he makes out of date jokes.
The humor is very dry and kidish with some really morbid humor sprinkled in. I was surprised how tone deaf the movie feels.
There is a lot of googling to move the plot forward and learn things instead of doing anything fun or clever.
The camerawork is ugly. There are constantly Dutch tilts and the framings are not pretty in any way.
The acting is mostly terrible. The kids are not good actors and the adults kind of steal the show here.
Yeah, there is so little going on in this movie with so little meat on the bone to actually create a review that sounds coherent. This is such a huge mess and just a nothing movie that you cant really talk about because it gives you nothing. It´s just noise on the screen for having it´s sake and I really did not find any enjoyment from this movie.
