Longlegs Sucks! - Spoilers!

Longlegs Spoiler Breakdown - Longlegs is a new film that is pretending to be something produced by A24. It's got amazing cinematography and slick production value but that's about it. The story is a mess with so much thrown at the wall in the final act. The characters are either dull, uninteresting robots or absolutely unhinged in the silliest way (Nicholas Cage). Longlegs had potential but poor execution. I explain why in the video.
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Narrated by: Adam Olinger
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[@Cucumberknife]

The main characters heavy breathing in every “scary” scene drove me nuts

[@skaterzrule4]

I was getting so frustrated. Like close ur dang mouth!!!!! Aren’t you a special agent!!!?!??

[@Cucumberknife]

@@skaterzrule4 literally her in every scary scene: 👁️👄👁️ “paaah heee paaah heee paaah heee paaah heee” like girl get a GRIP

[@mperez4855]

The breathing was ridiculous and ruined any tension from the scenes cause it would be all I could focus on. Boom mic dude needed to turn down the sensitivity

[@lookatmyrandomdrawings]

watched it yesterday in german dubbed at our local cinema. thought the voice actor is just brutally bad at acting and i shouldve watched the OV. guess she was not. the heavy breathing was totally on point i guess 🤡

[@Cucumberknife]

@@lookatmyrandomdrawings she breathes heavy in the dubbed version too?!? 💀

[@carlosbarrow4834]

The worst thing about this film is that it sucks as a detective thriller and as a horror. There is pretty much zero actual detecting. Longlegs basically guides her and then she magically solves the cyphers. So it's boring on that front. Then the supernatural element is not scary, comes too late and is underbaked and underwhelming. Just all around terrible...but it looks and sounds really nice.

[@pepperpepperandbayleaf3025]

She doesn't magically solve the ciphers, Longlegs helps her with that too 😂. He leaves a note in her house with a message, both in code and decoded, and she is able to solve it because of that.

[@Ocapela215]

The moment she didn't call for backup for her partner. I bailed out. Great atmosphere to sleep to. 😂

[@giantleprechaun2350]

I feel asleep almost from the very beginning. I guess there’s a reason for that.

[@Ultradocker]

yeah that scene was where I knew this movie was dogwater. Partner gets shot in the face, what does she do as a trained FBI agent? Call it in? No, rush into the house, not checking corners not checking doors like and idiot? Yes. Man this movie sucked. I want my time back.

[@giantleprechaun2350]

@@Ultradocker I want my money back lol

[@madelinelore2416]

Perfect summation. Literally hated the movie.

[@2st486]

same. they try tojustify all the stupid shit she does with "its the devil's inlfluence" but there is not enough deception the devil can provide to make a hack writer seem good

[@UnbrokenMarionettes]

The movie really did drag and was not scary at all. The part where Nicholas cage starts singing like Marilyn Monroe was funny😂

[@tjspaulding5600]

The movie was way overhyped. Really disappointing

[@cookiewoman8959]

I completely agree. I really wanted to like this film but my friend and I kept looking at each with this face throughout---->😕

[@TheSacralHealer]

My face was stuck like this 🥴😂

[@skaterzrule4]

SAME

[@jamesgreenwood5185]

Besides dragging ass, at the beginning, when her partner got shot at the front door, SHE HIDES BEHIND A GIANT WINDOW? Yeah, I'm sure THAT is an FBI defensive tactic! WTF?!?

[@bunvag]

I just do not under the hype of this movie. It was tension filled, shot beautifully, has style. But I feel like it had no real pay off. There’s so many ideas crammed into this movie that it ends up feeling like a artsy nothing burger in the end.

[@Partoftheratpack]

Exactly

[@Maikeru305]

Couldn't agree more

[@lockekappa500]

It had more payoff than 90% of horror movies. Did we watch the same movie?

[@DannyKnightblade45]

​@@lockekappa500 What payoff?

[@lockekappa500]

@@DannyKnightblade45 If you needed to be beat over the head with the themes and eventual ambiguity of the ending even more than they did (of which all implications have their own meanings) then I dunno what to say. Plenty of videos on it also if you need it spelled out.

[@lloydpassafume5357]

The whole movie just felt off. I’m shocked by the overwhelming positive reaction this movie is getting. Like it’s “changing the game” in horror. Like cmon. If you liked the movie ok, but it’s statements like that kind of piss me off. The movie was also predictable. To each his/her own I guess. Great content Adam! 😊

[@triocha233]

Movies just suck now dude End of

[@sunsin1592]

My wife and son went to see "Despicable Me 4" and I found myself envying them from about 5 minutes into this.

[@bruh_hahaha]

Wronglegs. 🤣😂

[@Riz_Miah]

The fantastic marketing for this film did it such a disservice in the end. I expected one thing going in just to be disappointed. So many viewers around me talking about how it was not scary at all and just boring because the plot felt so contrived. The whole ability Lee has was so dumb that ruined the detective aspect that I was looking forward to

[@nickt4739]

My interpretation was that she didn't have any abilities at all. She had been possessed since childhood and people around her mistook it as some sort of psychic ability or "intuition".

[@paulwolfe325]

​@@nickt4739 that explanation is even worse

[@nickt4739]

@@paulwolfe325 How so?

[@TF2ReplayMaker]

​@@nickt4739 pretty much, nail on the head. I enjoyed this movie

[@Drewstanton480]

@@nickt4739so your explanation is she was possessed and, because she was possessed, the devil gave her the ability to stop his plan?

[@Clive-us3cl]

The scene toward the beginning (mentioned in this review) where LL leaves a note at MM's house is a crucrial failure that undermined everything after. We see the main character nonchalantly assume that she's in no danger from the killer, albeit for no rational reason. Whatever happens after that, the movie has already taught us not to feel tension or threat from the killer.

[@rainbowbabyblog5995]

Absolutely, so dumb she literally witnessed some dude walk in her house and she just sits down and forgets about it and long legs forgets about her.

[@Alucard2091]

You forgot Lee is psychic alerts her from threat or things link to Longlegs.

[@leyenda6149]

What made no sense to me what a tiny, single woman living in an unpopulated, wooded area with a house efull of giant windows for any curious bypasser with nefarious intentions to study her & do bad things, if they were so inclined to. FBI agents are supposed to be peak-level tactically minded with impeccable situational awareness.

[@BriarPatchNyra]

That definitely contributed to my lack of fear

[@corychapman46]

One of the parts I hated most is when Harker goes to her moms hoarder house for answers and gets the flashback of taking the Polaroid picture of Longlegs that was kept for 30 years for some reason, Then the next scene they’re swarming in on Longlegs at the bus stop because apparently that’s all the info they needed. God this movie was so bad.

[@Alucard2091]

The mom has hoarding disorder because of Longlegs that explains the photos and why the clue perplexing even though Lee is a witness.

[@politefan8141]

It's a small town and there is no indication of exactly how much time has passed when they capture him. There are also witnesses who have seen him and know his general whereabouts. Additionally, as we find out, being caught was part of Longlegs plan all along so it doesn't really matter.

[@Partoftheratpack]

It sucked ass

[@corychapman46]

Well if he visits Harker when she’s a kid you get a good frame of reference and time when you see her all grown up it’s at least a couple decades. Also where does his plan of being caught ever come into play? Literally nothing is known about Longlegs or his motivations that’s how shallow this movie was, It explains nothing.

[@kingbooseph9538]

@@politefan8141no. How did we know he wanted to get caught? We know nothing about log legs other than “hail Satan.” Fucking stupid

[@rangoooo2312]

The scene where she’s on the phone to her mum and the door bangs was the scariest moment for me. Something so visceral about being a woman alone and vulnerable in that moment, even without any supernatural element that would get to me. But like you said, nothing happened with it. She put the chain on the door, she sees something outside and GOES OUTSIDE LEAVING HER DOOR OPEN. Lock the doors and call someone c’mon. Then doesn’t she open the birthday card early? It says don’t open til Jan 14th and she opens it instantly. I was waiting for some consequence to that but it never materialises. By the time they show long legs in the grocery store it’s like all the intrigue is gone

[@roastbeefy0weefy]

She doesn't blow the head off the doll but yeah, didn't buy the suspense of letting the wife die before jumping into action when it's the kid's turn.

[@mistadopeman]

I wasn’t so big on it. Not scary at all. It could’ve been a great crime thriller. But the characters were too closely involved with everything. I couldn’t buy into it.

[@MrCSInyfan1000]

So refreshing to hear you speak the truth about this movie. I'm so sick of all these 'critics' gushing over the most mediocre horror movies and pretending as if it is they are the best thing since Silence of the Lambs or Halloween. I can't think of any redeeming qualities this movie has. It is so slow paced and repeats the SAME BEAT the entire film. They tried to paint Long Legs as this Buffalo Bill / Hannibal Lector sort of creepiness and terrifying. But Nicholas Cage just had me laughing in disappointment at his portrayal the entire time. I never felt unnerved or scared of his appearance. It literally felt like I was watching an SNL skit. And when the time for the big reveal and twist of the film comes, they do it by dropping a bunch of exposition on us through narration. It would have been so much more satisfying if the main character found something in her home that relates her mother to Long Legs or her mother accidentally admitting something only the killer would know or literally ANYTHING rather than the script talking to us like we're too stupid to grasp the concept and spelling it out for us. And the amount of times the phrase "Hail Satan" is mentioned is ridiculous. It would have been so much more impactful if they ONLY TIME Long Legs said it was moments before bashing his head into the table and killing himself. Not to mention the corny wink and weird ending scene almost playing like a comedy. Overall just a boring, underwhelming, satanic crap from Hollywood. Will never revisit this again.

[@theprowler18]

While I stand by that this is very much a big improvement over the insufferable Gretel And Hansel (this film did dredge how much that film frustrated and bored me), I won't deny that I didn't click with the payoff and felt the climax was rushed and undercooked in how it was executed. Cause, for the main reason behind the killing to be "THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT" feels like weak sauce horror to me and it didn't help that our lead acts like a catatonic idiot in how she stops her mother from carrying out the latest ritual killing.

[@rainbowbabyblog5995]

What are some other movies you didn’t like? Very entertaining listening to you “nitpick” this movie because I thought just about everything you did.

[@sho1oo]

hit the nail on the head. It was a snails pace.

[@2st486]

it takes talent tormake a good slow burn. this director was way over his head when writing this

[@kyleweber5667]

Finally a review I can agree with! Stupid movie with no point. No single character had clear motives for their actions. You knew Longlegs was the killer the whole time, it was clear the mom was involved. Total waste of time

[@Airjet2582]

This Longlegs was like if Wes Anderson directed a horror movie.

[@Alucard2091]

I would if Milla Jovovich in it

[@johnseckinger9523]

@@Alucard2091you’re thinking Paul W.S. Anderson. The Anderson they’re talking about is the guy who wrote “The Royal Tenenbaums”. All of his stuff is arthouse/indie to the max and filled with a very specific color palette.

[@R3db3ard18]

I was mixed on it. Initially, I liked it but didn't love it, had its flaws. But after a few days of sitting on it, I think it's meh. Don't hate it, don't like it either. Oh, and the ending "Hail Satan" gave me edgy teenager vibes. Oof.

[@yahboy_semaj5673]

Holy shit adam I hope you read this but I really fucking hated this movie shit put my ass to sleep and the whole time I was just thinking of silence of the lambs. Also nick cage in this shit, my god is he just terrible like literally just hamming that shit up. I saw this with a buddy, and the dude literally fell asleep. I had to fight to stay awake. The only thing that kept me up was the occasional jump scare, which was lame. Scariest movie of the year, my ass. Anyways man great review keep it up the great work.

[@Partoftheratpack]

Spot on

[@AdamDoesMovies]

I often find the harder early critics praise these types of movie, the more I end up hating it.

[@darkheat16]

They had the sound cranked up at my regal or this sound designer cranked it up on purpose cause he knew points were was falling asleep.. startled me awake 😂

[@CineFanatique]

Adam , man, I’m still right there with you . I have let it sit and I have thought about it but I still just couldn’t stand it . There were decisions that I appreciated or respected. But I will still stand behind my dislike of this film . 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@fake-natty9643]

She never uses her half ability aside from in the very beginning

[@pajeetsingh]

9:20 Same can be said about the first scene. It was frustrating. The killer conveniently kills the guy and instead of calling back she barge inside the house like Batman and killer just sit there and surrenders???

[@madmaxmedia]

LOL Adam you mixed up the ending, Harper ran out of bullets and couldn’t shoot the doll in the end. The mom shot the other doll in a previous scene, causing Harker to black out, for reasons.

[@nickt4739]

Harker didn't run out of bullets, the entity prevented the gun from firing, Thus, she only had two options; kill the child or continue the cycle.

[@madmaxmedia]

@@nickt4739 I couldn’t tell for sure during the movie, but that makes more sense. It would have made more sense for her to try to shoot the doll as soon as she came in, before the cop killed the wife.

[@konghere]

I took it that Harker had bullets left, but the Devil didn't allow her to shoot the doll. She had a revolver which takes 6 bullets? Shot 3 times (2 at her boss, 1 at her mom). She had bullets left.

[@nickt4739]

​@@konghere Agreed, a revolver isn't going to jam, so a supernatural interference is really the only thing that makes sense IMO.

[@bruh_hahaha]

“for reasons”, there’s a lot of that in this movie

[@TakabIghe]

I wanted so bad to like this…. But I just couldn’t take Nicholas cage as a serious threat. He talks like Paul Stanley from kiss 😂 and looks like a mix of Michael Bolton and Mrs. Doubtfire Dream scenario was a great movie that was a good mix of the crazy nic with some good acting. Here just felt like by the numbers for him

[@123rockfan]

Someone also mentions he looks like Jennifer Coolidge lol

[@THEremiXFACTOR]

Michael Bolton 😅

[@feliciaHardyy]

I was really hoping for something more along the lines of Seven. Just saw it in theaters and when her mom shoots the doll and that black smoke left her head i couldn't help but loudly say "magic?? really?!?" and don't get me started on them banking on Nicholas Cage being scary in his Mrs.Doubtfire makeup.

[@defface777]

The most disappointing movie in years from all the hype... First 15 minutes was creepy, but the rest wasn't scary, and I kept wanting to laugh every time Cage was on screen... Too goofy of a character

[@InQuickWeTrust]

Yeah it was garbage. All of it just being a possessed doll was just so dumb. Wouldn’t a doll be found at every crime scene? That was never mentioned. Just stupid.

[@catfishunter28]

Seriously. That's the first thing I thought. They'd all have a doll at the scene. And you're telling me no one ever noticed a random bloody nun at least once.

[@InQuickWeTrust]

@@catfishunter28 right! They would have asked neighbors if they saw anything suspicious and all of them would have said oh yeah there was this nun with a big box that went into their house lol

[@matthewpayn9940]

She (Lee's mum) took the doll away after every killing, this can clearly be seen towards the end when she leaves with the box.

[@InQuickWeTrust]

@@matthewpayn9940 oh well still a stupid movie

[@charlirogers6235]

@@matthewpayn9940 but the hoarder with butt length hair that stayed and watched all the murders never left evidence behind

[@Partoftheratpack]

Same opinion as you on this film. Thinking about it the next day angered me more. Adam - I think give us 6 months we could write a better movie.

[@DerekJustice]

100% agree with this. My feelings exactly. I don't mind the supernatural turn, but I felt it was lackluster. I was expecting a full on demon making an appearance or the doll coming to life. But the mom being involved was just meh imo. The movie looked and sounded great though.

[@VoidRockSteady]

My immediate thought after viewing this movie “I want my money back..”

[@liljosh224]

I couldn't take it seriously after seeing Lee enter multiple dangerous situations without cover, not checking her surrounds, not calling for back-up, etc. She's a terrible FBI agent and her loud breathing got on my nerves! The perp would have heard her a mile away.

[@kailyn4744]

My friend fell asleep halfway through, the theatre was laughing the entire time, at the 3rd part everybody audibly groaned because it wasnt over. That seems like a failure of a horror movie. Half the movie not explained or answered or straight up contradictory followed by characters so boring and one demensional your waiting for them to be killed next. Let down my friends with this one, what a waste of money😒

[@brandi598]

Saw this movie with my friend last night after hearing so many good things about it but it was literally one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time

[@littleplasticheroes]

Glad i went and watched this review. You verbalized everything I was trying to figure out in my head after watching.

[@TrippingHawk]

you summed it up so perfectly, i'm glad i'm not the only one that saw through the bullshit of this movie

[@Partoftheratpack]

It was dreadful

[@DannyKnightblade45]

​@@Partoftheratpack Yep, it was poorly written, artsy fartsy trash made for pretentious movie critics.

[@MrRuff-cc3lg]

Cage sounds like HIM from Powerpuff Girls.

[@gametime2473]

"Desensitized by it and I'm no longer interested". A perfect way to explain what I think about season 4 of "The Boys".

[@yourmomlovespenis]

Thank you for this!

[@JamesT094]

So after Cage dies how’s the mom getting supplied with Satanic Dolls or how’s she plan to continue the work.

[@2st486]

i got that she wasnt planning to. she knew they were both destined to twist and burn in hell the second LL died since she couldn't no longet hold her end of the bargain with MrDownstairs.

[@septiumist]

i previously couldn’t wrap my head around how this movie couldn’t work for some people but tbh u brought up some good points, fair argument👍

[@PokemonSquare]

I also wanted to walk out half way through this “movie”. Was bored to tears and frustrated that it was soooo slow. Everything was just so slow. Yucky

[@2st486]

in those long shots you were looking for the wrong thing. there were no jumpscares there, there were creepy things lingering in the back few times. a shadow moving behind a couch, the horned figure disappearing form the yard. stuff like thatin the style of ju-on or lake mungo. the problem is that they always feel forced. this movie didnt earned that level of eeriness. it starts dumb, and it keeps being dumb. she saw somebody in her house, she found a letter somebody left in her house, yet, she doesn freak out or search for the intruder or even call for backup. nah she just sit s and opens the envelope. or at the very beginning, she has an intuition and immediately wants to call in support, she's' shut down but the usual "arrogant man" coworker, and when he gets instakilled, she doesnt call for backup or update their situation to the agency whatsoever. is it because the devil manipulated her? is it becaues she's a rookie? or is it because the director is a hack writer?

[@madmaxmedia]

I had seen generally positive but mixed reviews, held off watching Adam’s review because I was still hopeful. But I just got out of the theater and was really disappointed. It felt like a cut rate Hereditary, amping up the atmosphere with sound cues and long drawn out shots but ultimately not really leading anywhere plotwise, story wise, or thematically.

[@CM-di1oz]

One scene that I did find creepy was the start of the house scene. Her house is this odd very rural cabin very dark hall ways and huge windows it’s very lynchian feeling. Then she goes out said and there’s a spooky figure and that kinda spoils the tension.

[@dalisllama]

One thing that keeps bothering me about the movie, is there are no reaction shots that convey any fear. No screams, no horrified expressions. The only time they have anything like that, it’s a profile shot, and she’s covering her face. And in the “priest” scene…no one makes a sound while an axe murder is occurring? Not one cry for help, or shout “wait! No!”. Very strange.

[@noonesbusinesss]

Worst this about Barbarian was it didn't know if it was a serious or comedy horror. Justin Long just made it comedy and he ruined it at the end.

[@AadilCuts]

Seeing Lee Harker lose her breath (and her shit) everytime something happened was so nonsensical. Shes a cop goddammit. Why does she seem to be having a nervous breakdown when something slightly pressurizing happened?!

[@whrecordings]

Sometimes I appreciate when a film teases there might be something supernatural going on, then instead of desperately looking for a way to explain it logically just says "fuck it, it's just straight up the devil."

[@artbyreedie]

Watched it last night. Really disappointing, was expecting so much more. Was almost laughable at points when it wasn't supposed to be.

[@KyleSoutar]

I went into this essentially blind and ended up loving it. When it comes to "the scariest film ever" no this movie isnt that scary, but it is effective and creepy. We get about 18 movies a year claiming to be the scariest movie of the year. it's just to get some asses in seats, I just tune that out as soon as I hear that.

[@shipyardtown8155]

@@KyleSoutar yeh me too. Some of his reviews are meh .

[@AlucardTheFuckMotheringVampire]

​@@shipyardtown8155the film still sucks tho

[@sNpeR1080]

Might be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I would legitimately get more value out of getting high and watching Steven Seagal movies. They are aweful of course, but there's still plenty of entertainment to be had. Longlegs is just boring as fuck.

[@robbush6822]

I liked everything but the actual story. That's sad. Style over substance, I guess, but the substance is key, and this movie did not have it. LongLegs is a messenger of Satan who whispers hellish commands into dolls' heads? The mom was his accomplice? Still? After all of these years? Why not just tell your daughter - the FBI agent - that your life has been tormented by this freak in the basement and get rid of him? Because no movie. That's why. Dumb. I liked Cage in this. He was creepy with that crazy makeup on and all. Story sucked though. Too bad. I had high hopes.

[@RowanRiverstone]

Skinamarink was that movie for me. I felt very similar with this one.

[@iamgar6age]

Atleast in skinamarink, the villian was menacing and sinister was an actual threat.

[@2st486]

skinamarink was balls out abstract and even if i didnt enjoy it very much, i consider it way above this Longlegs travesty. Skina intrigued me but in the end it mostly ocnfused me. Longlegs just bored the shit out of me.

[@cindy68780]

Maika Monroe was great, a pretty good movie overall but that ending ......

[@TheEvdoggy]

The marketing for this movie was amazing. Took a turd of a movie and genuinely had me believing it was a modern “masterpiece”. Outrageously deceptive.

[@michaelangeloabarreto4588]

I love the part where long legs jumped out of the screen and said Its Legging time. Lol I hate how everyone that died is either soneone we met for a few minutes or not at all.

[@goldengoat1737]

I dont know if it is because we are the same age. but we have the same opions about movies. I love alot of these art films when they nail it it is SO GOOD! often it comes off contrived. I did love Maxxine agree the end was weak but it was still baisicly perfect to me

[@kingslayer2999]

Nicolas Cage deserves a Razzie for whatever crap that performance was in this overhyped pos film.

[@DominickSpano]

I didn't like it either, but will ask this honestly, can you see how or why it worked for others? I didn't like it much and I am w/ you on this one.

[@leyenda6149]

I didn't want to believe the headline, so I waiting until I saw the movie this time before watching the video. I just assumed this would be an occasion of our ultimately having a difference of opinion. But yep, my wife & I went to see it and we absolutely hated the movie.

[@deadpuddle86]

It's frustrating how many reviewers are giving this movie praise. I've watched a couple of them and their justifications for liking it are such a reach that you just know they are getting something for the positive remarks. Same with most of the "elevated" horror.

[@vinson1445]

The whole movie ADRed by the table reading.

[@vinylated]

Thank you! Just rented this on streaming (bit of a mistake) and you echoed everything I took away from this movie too. Which is a shame cause somewhere there's a good movie that's buried deep away.

[@Ultradocker]

super unbelievable, shitty broken internal movie logic. Na, waste of time.

[@gukarl5045]

How

[@Ultradocker]

@@gukarl5045 How? Lee Harker is a supposed trained FBI field agent but violates pretty much every standard procedure for law enforcement. She also clearly hasn't gone through basic training. Things like tactical house clearing, room to room. Her partner gets shot in the face infront of her, she hides behind a window...Never calls in for backup. It's clear Maika Monroe wasn't properly trained and instructed for this role at all. This is was the breaking point for me, the moment the movie completely broke immersion and I just saw actors acting. And that is just one example. Later on, when It's revealed that Longlegs knows Lee the FBI department doesn't immediatly pull her off the case, no they even let her in the holding room to see Longlegs in person. You can't take this sh!t seriously.

[@Saryrn_Sorrow]

@@Ultradocker Sounds like you take it too serious. You're so focused on the details that don't matter at all and you're missing out and being able to appreciate the movie for the art that it is, I mean you don't have to actually like the art, but clearly the movie had bigger priorities than presenting the audience with a picture perfect fbi representation. Don't think this is the type of movie for you, you frankly sound slightly autistic with how stressed you are about such irrelevant details like obsessing over fbi training or standard cop protocol. You realize a staple in horror movies is people behaving in stupid ways that goes against standard logic, last time I check people didn't watch horror films expecting to see real life mirrored with 100% accuracy. So you can tell me with a straight face if she had mimicked official fbi training you would have been able to enjoy the film just fine, weird. Pretty sad people are so dull these days that they can't suspend their imagination due to not having any imagination to suspend to begin with. Maybe you could enjoy more films if you didn't sit there with a stick up your butt fact checking things like a nerd. Again I am not saying you have to like this movie, but if your going to dislike it, you sure have a dumb reason to do so. I enjoyed the movie a lot, but can actually name several real flaws as opposed to superficial meaningless flaws.

[@fishels3895]

I totally agree. The first two thirds are building to some kind of realistic conclusion but there are so many unanswered questions that I’m not sure there’s answers for. What is the point of the letters? What is the endgame for AFTER the final victim? Why does long legs let himself be picked up and how did they find him? Why does long legs kill himself? Why is that one doll left for our agent to find? I understand why it wasn’t used because the girl wasn’t there that day but why was the doll left to find by long legs? And why in gods name does the mom shoot the doll freeing harker if the mission ISNT finished yet?

[@devrayne6770]

I think she shot the doll to free her daughter that was still in a trance, but she was still going to carry on the mission because she said they would burn in hell if not.

[@bunvag]

@@devrayne6770still doesn’t make sense. Why “protect” your daughter who would eventually grow up and have to “take on the family business.”? Instead you keep her ignorant to her fate, for her to struggle with her future. Why not train her from a young child? That sounds wild but it just doesn’t add up. Because it lead to her moms death and then what’s the point of her daughter isn’t going to carry it on?

[@corychapman46]

They found him because Harkers mom had a Polaroid that she kept from 30 years prior when LL visits Lee as a kid. Makes zero sense lol.

[@Alucard2091]

@@corychapman46 Hoarding disorder makes sense of that

[@devrayne6770]

@@bunvag I agree, the plot was a little convoluted to me.

[@chadwicksdroid4301]

Cannot agree more. This movie was terrible! I agree that the production was good but it seemed to be a parody of a Seven/ Silence etc. my lord this movie sucked.

[@bamhamer]

Just finished it and just thought: "huh?" Glad I'm not the only one who didn't get the hipe and was disappointed

[@alanquinn9845]

Cage's character was probably inspired by Tiny Tim. Not the Christmas Carol character but the man from the Tonight Show with the ukulele. Seeing Cage like that scared me like the Dickens.

[@dougsteeleguitar]

So you'll be seeing it again?

[@gnarkitty1329]

I guess I just can’t take nic cage like seriously he’s just being nic cage and me and my wife laughed while he did his longlegs thing and everyone was silent and terrified

[@Busbybeats]

Did her Mother learn to make the dolls too?

[@Drewstanton480]

Couldn’t agree more with this. Absolutely a chore to sit through. The ending could have made up for it at least a little. Made it more worthwhile. And then it ended before the (ideal) ending even happened. Really wanted to like it and couldn’t have been more disappointed. 5/10 Want to see a new, relatively new, horror movie check out The First Omen.

[@pajeetsingh]

Glad there are good reviewers like you.

[@hjkayel9610]

I agree with your review. Watched it last night & I was thinking throughout that I am wasting my time. Not scared at all. Plotline was stupid. I don't understand why there are so many reviews touting it as the scariest movie of the decase. I'm like.....REALLY!!!????

[@t.wrecks1976]

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[@DominoZenii]

Great review

[@crystalshaw8744]

I'm surprised this movie is getting so many bad reviews.

[@BeeChadfield]

Fell asleep in this one. Really liked where it was going in the beginning but found a lot of it dull in the end. Seemed to be trying a lot and ended up being dull and confused. It seemed like it had no idea what it actually wanted to be.

[@shilohivy4590]

I didn’t like it either. It was so slow and so long I was fighting sleep in the cinema.

[@ynaa22]

I agree a waste of time and money. I was really let down by it.

[@jeandonaldson2290]

Hated it!

[@danfoster-hy8mo]

I dig how tall your hair is. I wish I had hair. Sincerely Dan

[@AadilCuts]

Oddity was a better horror flick imho

[@madfantamax]

That is a good review, well done lol I still liked much of the movie though. I liked its similarities to other similar movies, its plot flaws keeping it from being too serious, lack of sex and violence and that longlegs killed himself when he had done no crime. All in all its a casual movie that looks great for which I will give it some marks back that you quite accurately took away lol. I think this could be the new SOTL and thank God for that too.

[@lockekappa500]

I'm starting to think this guy has made his living off disliking popular films to all of the haters have somewhere to flock to. Actually kind of genius. This is the 5th review of his that I've seen that dislikes VERY commonly liked movies.

[@AdamDoesMovies]

Maybe spend a few minutes looking around the channel. You will find that those 5 reviews are the exception. I align with most critics 90% of the time. I just don't pretend to like something I don't. There is no secret, smart strategy here.

[@lockekappa500]

​@@AdamDoesMovies To quote you in your last video on Longlegs (because 2 videos on a movie you hated definitely isn't embracing the dislikers) "Obviously there's going to be a bunch of people who love this film, because it seems like the more I hate something, the more it drives me up the wall. the more it actually drives people towards it." I mean if this doesn't sound like a contrarian critic, I don't know what does.

[@AdamDoesMovies]

Yeah, it's a self-aware joke and commentary on how I find these early reviews to be a bit of bs.

[@lockekappa500]

@@AdamDoesMovies Ok, my bad, I mistook the meaning of it. Apologies.

[@85emmalouise]

Ok this review made me howl laughing. So perfect. Terrible pacing and too many underdeveloped ideas, but my main gripe is the ending. So this WHOOOOOOLE thing was about satan manoeuvring Lee into a position where she would eventually have to shoot her Mum? That was what allllll of this was about? That was the devils great flourish? Who cares?!!?! At no point was the relationship developed enough for us to give a rats ass what happens to Lee's mother. There is literally ZERO emotional weight to that outcome, no sense of irony, no bitter pill to swallow, no howling tragedy or sense of completion. What an insanely elaborate plan for a totally uneventful final death.

[@Thelastwarrior]

saw it today instead of being scared i was laughing a lot. Not scary - boring - women actor is emotionless and robotic - nick is to goofy and not scary - they reveal nick right in the middle and instead of the end - he’s make up looks like a 10 year old done it - 5.5 out of 10 - the killer should of been not a goofy and taken seriously not a old grandma retired pensioner

[@BriarPatchNyra]

Maika Monroe was playing Lee intentionally emotionless. She’s been in much better horror films and is nothing like this. The character reads as autistic.

[@harlendevraak1202]

The movie is literally dark, I can't see what's happening. I like the third act when they finally turned up the brightness knob and also dropped the artsy-fartsy stuff and just told me directly what the movie is all about. Overall, I really like the story and I feel it could've been told better.

[@realitysven]

This could have been up there with silence of the lambs... It should have been a serious serial killer film That's what the trailer had us believe... Although the horror was done really well I was absolutely gutted That this was some sort of stupid voodoo mumbo jumbo possession movie.. The only thing that can save this is if they did a prequel base in the 70s and had him killing people as he should be doing

[@JasonWood-jx6lu]

I half hated it and half liked it I agree with what u said And then my other half still liked it I’m as confused as the movie

[@MrDman21]

I hate to say it but Joe from Reel Shift overhypes modern horror movies like X and Pearl. I'm pretty sure he liked Long Legs but I didn't even bother to watch his review.

[@antnovs]

What a waste of Nicolas Cage's potential. Pathetic ass film

[@AtsilaH]

Glad to know I'm not the only one who didn't care for this movie and especially the heavy breathing. This movie looked washed out and dull and so did the characters. And the ending was just stupid. Why sit there and just let it happen? And scary? There are DIsney cartoons that are scarier, like Nemo being kidnapped, for example. And when a movie has to literally explain itself at the end- that's not a good sign. I LOVE It Follows. I should go watch that again to erase this movie from my mind.

[@rossl5908]

Just recently watched a film named Kill List at the same time as this, and if you want to see a film that is truly haunting with occult ties, that is actually good - I recommend this.

[@2st486]

jesus Kill List.....saw it, loved it, NEVER watching it again....

[@filmneek]

I liked the film. Had some great moments. Cage was great the intro but I did laugh when he started singing in that flashback.