The Nun II
I was nun the wiser, but apparently The Conjuring dudes are trying to Marvel their way into a franchise? They seem about as successful, at least they are mostly standalone.
I caught the train half way into the ride, but it travels so slowly and has so many callbacks that you don’t feel overwhelmed. If anything, you feel nothing. There are some visually interesting set pieces, like the magazine rack scene, but the rest is painting by the numbers, generic mainstream horror show.
In that case, I moved to recognising the cast. There’s Vera Farmiga’s sister (a younger version of her), Ellie’s girlfriend from The Last of Us, and some dude I saw in Elle, of all places. There’s not much more that a bit part for Susan from Narnia.
They don’t stick to a convention of British or French accents, it’s all over the place, even though it’s set in France. There’s the thinnest of plots and no major twists, so it’s perfunctory at best. A lot of focus on the kids, not annoying but worthless.
The best I can say is that I didn’t hate it.
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.