"Astral 3": reviews, ratings

The cunning move of the director of two chapters of the "Astral" James Wang seemed to leave no chance for the appearance of the third chapter: he killed the main character and defeated the main villain, the plot led to a logical ending, and he himself undertook a much more important and important project ("Fast and Furious 7" ).

The patient is more alive than dead

But the author Jason Bloom, authoritative in the field of modern horror, having caught the intonation with which Wang told the previous stories, decided to realize the attempt of resuscitation of the franchise, letting Lee Lee Woonnell. So the world was "Astral 3", critics' reviews designated the film as a narrative about the medium Alice Rainier, who fought with the demons in the first two paintings. James Wang decided not to participate actively in the intensive care unit, limiting his participation to the producer's functional and a passing cameo at the beginning of the film. Change of director affected the final product.

Plot

Horror "Astral 3" rating is mediocre: 5 out of 10 or 3 of 5, although the plot of the picture is quite entertaining and promising. The main character is the young girl Quinn ( Stephanie Scott's debut ) - after a sudden death of her mother she lives with the father of Sean (Dermot Mulroney) and the harmful brother of Alex (Tate Bernie). Unable to reconcile with the loss, the heroine decides to contact her mother in the other world, for this she seeks help from Alice (Lin Shay). She categorically refuses to cooperate, warning the girl that, calling someone from the afterlife, anyone can be summoned from the dead. But youthful maximalism does not give chance to sanity, and Quinn tries to conduct a session on his own. The words of the psychic turn out to be prophetic, and soon the poor half-heart begins to feel someone else's presence in their home. Misfortunes fall on the heroine as if from a cornucopia: Quinn breaks both legs, gets under the car, it is pursued by the One Who Is Not-Breathe, not experiencing maternal feelings. The frightening creature in the attached oxygen mask not only made its way into the living world, it tries to drag the heroes into the other world. Quinn's life turns into a real nightmare, and Alice has to intervene.

Prequel

"Astral 3" (2015) reviews of those not indifferent identified as a prequel of the dilogy, clarifying the circumstances of the meeting of the psychic psychic Alice with the "ghost hunters", gouged by Speks and Tucker. But the viewer group of the creator for horror and overwhelming fear is preparing for too long, showing in all angles the main character, the enamored teenage neighbor, school friends and other not very important characters. Such a director's reception in the picture "Astral 3" reviews experts called unjustified and incomprehensible. Lee Wannell even made his debut as a director, but he should have felt like a fish in the water: he was the co-producer of the Pila franchise, co-wrote the scenarios of the first two episodes of the astral trilogy. But he created his creation through experiments, mixing the components of the horror of modern times with the elements of the 80s sitcoms.

To have time to frighten

In the previous chapters, James Wang, although he did not shy away from the "bu" effects, but the emphasis was on the overall atmosphere. In the project, the viewer is introduced to the audience for an hour with the actors, so the timing is not left for the alignment of the atmosphere, because the watcher must still have time to frighten. This makes a similar picture of "Astral 3" (reviews of the film in 2015 indicate this fact) with a spin-off "The Curse of Annabelle," which, gnawing from the "Enchantment," abuses dark corners and loud sounds without a special game of suspense.

Capital Truth

In defense of Lee Wonnell, director-debutant of the horror "Astral. Chapter 3 ", reviews of film critics give everyone the well-known truism, which says: it is extremely difficult to frighten the beholder (as well as to laugh). Even more difficult to scare a fan of the genre after the inexorable "Bell", chilling the blood "Peel" and the contradictory "Paranormal phenomenon." Just Wannell did not have enough experience and directing skills, his attempt to frighten the spectator ends, and not having time to start. The level of a revered by Alfred Hitchcock suspense, he replaces a string of surprises. But not one of his surprises is comparable to the horror of waiting. Whatever one may say, anticipation and expectation are much worse than fear itself. Van realized this, turning his paintings into worst nightmares. Wonnell also created "Astral 3" (the film's rating - that's the best proof) like a horror story that is told at night by the fire, but with the onset of the morning it ceases to be terrible.

Robot of the neophyte

The technical side of the picture gives a very modest budget. Skeletons with disfigured skin, silhouettes in dark windows, frightening squeaks, steps, knocking in the film are abundant, but they act on a more undemanding level of the psyche. Yes, and presented the other world, which sometimes has to plunge the heroes of the episode, does not look like a good find. The dark elevator shafts, long corridors, empty apartments - this alone was enough for fantasy and money to the filmmakers. Such a budgetary Silent Hill, but not frightening an abandoned city, but only a few dark floors. But still one successful director's chip in the tape "Astral 3" reviews the audience often enough. These are the broken legs of the protagonist, who crunched and disgusted with every step that followed. This is a very decent, juicy scene, perhaps soon there will be her copies in the subsequent horror of all stripes.

The verdict is simple

Why did the "Astral 3" reviews mostly negative? The fact is that, intending to tell the prehistory of two episodes about Lee Wonnel, the scriptwriter for the first profession focused all his attention on the narrative narrative. Therefore, he did not realize many opportunities to aggravate the "terrible" effect. Not really to themselves have and central characters. The main heroine Quinn sometimes behaves inadequately. A humble, widowed father is busy with his problems and does not pay attention to children at all. Even the psychic Alice, the lead character of the picture, does not surprise the viewer, all her tricks and tricks were demonstrated earlier. A sluggish attempt to bring a share of humor to horror was not the luck of the creators, the meeting between Tucker and Speks and Alice turned out to be cool. For the viewer, who is familiar with their future activities, it even seems awkward. The characteristics of the characters look worse than the travels to the astral plane, they are exhausted and faded, despite the fact that the characters there perform heroic deeds, accompanying them with pathos speeches.

As a result, the third chapter turned out to be bad for some successful episodes, but on the whole it is a one-time ordinary horror, the weakest in the astral trilogy, but perhaps not the last one. The final of the third picture may well provoke the appearance of "Astral 4".