The performances from the young cast are a tad bland, but director Jon Hewitt infuses his low-budget genre jolter with just enough menace as it powers towards an effective, if predictable, climax.
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05/01/09
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Acolytes (2008)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:5
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Thriller, ,
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The bleak suburban setting and the mischievous, if somewhat downbeat adolescent lead characters recall Gus Van Sant's oeuvre, though Hewitt doesn't achieve anywhere near the same degree of nuance.
04/17/09
A requisite number of gory, slashing, scream-filled moments raise the heartbeat as kids chase killers, and the killers chase kids. What's missing is a freshness of purpose, and the conviction of motive. You know, the important stuff.
04/17/09
Unfortunately, after a strong first half, the film degenerates into some messily unconvincing blood-letting which might attract devotees of the genre but which is disappointingly conventional given what’s come before.
04/17/09
A combo of psychological thriller and bloody chiller... a superior piece of genre filmmaking
04/11/09
...maddeningly uneven...
11/07/08
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