"Carrie" Movie Review

            Now that I have reviews up for everything else I was doing, I can finally review a film in theaters right now, Carrie.

            The acting for this film is what carries the whole thing. The lead roles – Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore – did a fantastic job. Moretz embodies Carrie and brings so much depth to Carrie so that you feel for her. Moore was even better and was menacing and crazy as Carrie’s mother. She seemed so real. Though, supporting actors and actresses had some alright or bad acting. The lead supporting actress, Gabriella Wilde, was not bad. Most of the others were not very good. I will say that the over acting was still very good.

            For most of this movie, there are silly, stupid, cheesy, unrealistic, and illogical actions and dialogue from the characters throughout almost the entire film. Though, there was much more of this in the first half of the film, rather than the second half. They did not take away and incredible amount from the writing, but the writing does not need these elements inside it. And yes, I will say whether this is a frame-by-frame duplicate of the original or not. There are several scenes that had the same dialogue and the same characters’ actions, but there are also some things that were very different from the original. Some of them were for the better, and some of them were not. Some were cheesy add-ons that should not have been there and created laughs for the audience. Some, though, added to the movie. Overall, the writing was mediocre.

            Due to the fact that this is a reboot, I cannot really critique the story of this movie, or the plot events of it. I will use this section to mention miscellaneous aspects of the film. First off, I will get to the intensity. The sad thing about this film was that it had several moments that were trying to be intense that were not intense. Since this movie is only 100 minutes, there is not an incredible amount of character development for the characters. You do feel for Carrie, but that was one of the only things the script accomplished while attempting to develop the characters. It did have some intense moments, mostly near the end of the film, though. Next, I will get to the largest element they improved over the original, the revenge scene. For the most part, it was awesome. It was intense and had some great effects while showing some really cool deaths. This moment was definitely the height of the film. I sad “for the most part” for a reason, though. After a while, when Carrie was doing something in the revenge scene, something clicked in my brain. I know everyone has been saying this, but the deaths seemed to start getting influenced by the Final Destination franchise. They seemed to get more and more “creative”, and more and more Final Destination-ish.

            Now I will get to the enjoyableness of the film. While it does have many negative elements, it really does not have many dull moments. It is fast-paced, so that people will not get bored, but I did not get bored. There are some moments that are entertaining, but cannot be enjoyable because of the absurdity of the script. And there are some slightly boring moments when you are ready for the revenge scene to happen. Many times of this movie were enjoyable, and almost all of it was at least entertaining.

            Carrie had very good acting, some moments of intensity, had an awesome revenge scene for the most part, was mostly enjoyable, and almost all it was entertaining, but it had mediocre writing, some bad parts in the acting, not a large number of time moments, deaths that get more and more Finale Destination-ish, and some dull moments. Despite all of these flaws, I enjoyed Carrie and thought it was a good film.

            On my rating system, I rate this film “A Good Movie”. I do not think you need to go see it in the theater, but it is not a bad film.
            On the grading rating system, I give the movie a B. The thing that kept me from giving it a B- was the two lead performances.
            On the out-of-10 rating system, I give Carrie a 7.0/10.