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Just what I expected

Better Late Then Never

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is another "Be Careful What You Wish For..." movie. When Gillespie (Kelly) is fired from his job at the packing plant he besides to have his revenge on those he thought responsible. So, that night at the bar, he entices Jake (Thomason) over and proceeds to tell him the story of the monkey's paw, which is sitting on the table. Thinking it all to be a joke, he makes a wish to have the car in front of the bar. Gillespie hands over the withered paw and says it now belongs to him. When Jake and Cobb (Lang) leave at the end of the night the car is in the parking lot... alone... unlocked... keys in the ignition... On the joyride, Jake swerves to miss a crocodile in the road and crashes into a tree. Cobb is thrown through the windscreen and dies minutes later. Shocked and afraid, Jake quickly wishes that Cobb wasn't dead... and this is where the fun starts.Of course, there are only three wishes so with only one left Jake will have to be very careful about how he words his last wish.I admit to hoping this would be along The Wishmaster lines but sadly it wasn't... and it wasn't as good either. Though what this story had was lashings of realism, which created an environment for the curse to run riot in. You have a business that's not doing so well. A boss and husband who sleeps around. A wife who knows something is wrong and wishes for her younger years and her love of that time. A man complacent with his life, though he believes there's no prospects or advancement, life will be like this until he dies. A man who's been through a lot and is in love with a woman who hates him and won't let him see his son. All of this anchors the viewer in the here and now and gives them enough drama to keep them interested.Add to this the element of horror, the supernatural, and murder and you have a good film. Simmons does an admirable job with the direction and has a surprisingly subtle hand with using light to create the right atmosphere at the right time. There are some really nice iconic and powerful part silhouettes, which he uses to create tension and suspense. The pace, on the whole, is brilliant. He keeps it at a slow crawl, which allows him to create a shiver of anticipation under your skin... though, at times it can be too slow. For example, the beginning sequence at the plant. Most of this isn't required. I know it's there so the audience can meet the characters, however, it felt overstretched. There's also a few scenes which are kind of superfluous, like the opening scene. This is then retold in greater detail by Gillespie at the bar. To be honest, it's not even a hook to draw viewers into the film. However, I did like the fact that Simmons cut away from some of the goriest parts of the film, letting the viewers imagination fill in the messy bits.The acting is above average, though there are times when things get a little messy. The worst being the ambulance scene at the climax of the film. Thomason just can't seem to get afraid, anxious, and scared quite right and opts to shout and thrash about. It's both Kelly and Lang who add power to the cast and film. Lang is so good as the resurrected and murderous Cobb. While Kelly does an ordinary Joe so well. There's not one scene these two are in that even comes close to bad. It's a shame that Dutton, who plays detective Margolis, isn't around a little more either.I'd recommend this to horror lovers who like their macabre curses and evil manipulated wishes gone awry. I will only be too happy to watch this film again, though it might take me a couple of years.

When I stumbled upon "The Monkey's Paw", I didn't know what it was about, who starred in it or who directed it. I am familiar with the myth of the magical powers of the monkey's paw, and that was sufficient enough to make me pick up the movie and give it a go.I was pleasantly surprised to see that Stephen Lang was in this movie, because he usually performs quite well in the stuff that he participates in, and it turned out that the 2013 "The Monkey's Paw" was also one such feat. And he was joined by C.J. Thomason whom also performed quite well.Now, the storyline was pretty much straight forward and simple to follow. Actually, it was so straightforward that it was actually a bit too predictable. But it was alright, because the movie was entertaining enough to sustain the predictability without suffering under it.To quickly summarize the storyline, then it is about Jake Tilton (played by C.J. Thomason) whom is given a monkey's paw and the three wishes that come with it. But when one wish turns his friend Tony Cobb (played by Stephen Lang) into a soulless husk of his former self, things turn foul and bad things start to happen.The atmosphere that director Brett Simmons managed to set up during the course of the movie was quite good, because it was quite becoming for the storyline and the movie as a whole.This isn't a horror movie that relies heavily on special effects, so don't get all worked up and hope for a grand CGI and practical effects show, because it just ain't there. Sure, there were special effects in the movie, and the effects that were there were to the point and functioning very well."The Monkey's Paw" is the type of horror movie that is driven by a good and entertaining storyline and have some well-rounded characters in the character gallery to help bring the story to life on the screen. While this is not the type of horror movie that will make you cringe and jump at the edge of the seat, it is the type of horror movie that broods and stays with you.

The Monkey's Paw.Find a paw and ya get some wishes, three wishes to be exact. As the wise and the witless say, be careful what you wish for. This is the tired story of cliché love lost 20 something guy, his blonde make-up crusted bimbo of an ex who has moved on to guy's boss, old drunk and bitter father figure who wants his family back... enter a monkey's paw. Three wishes to make your dreams come true, what could go wrong?Guy looses his friends and family to father figure turned zombie killer, blonde takes stab wound to chest (her best feature), drunk and bitter gets drunk and dead and young and innocent spawn of drunk and bitter gets the next rack of wishes from the monkey's paw.If this sounds like a bad horror movie to you, you are not imagining it. The story was terrible, the script was scrap, and the acting was atrocious, and the blood had the look and consistency of Hershey's chocolate syrup. It would take the gang of mystery science theater to polish this gem to an appreciable point, but even that may be stretching it. Bad is bad and bad it was and frankly to expect more would be to expect too much.

Now don't get me wrong, not a bad movie by far, however the trailers and hype brought this movies potential to be one of the best horror films in years. Kind of fell short. I agree it's not the worst movie and very well worth watching, just don't expect academy awards for this. I give this flick a solid 6-7 stars (out of 10) for getting so many to watch it in the first place, a good solid 5 for the acting, as for the plot, we'll have to dig a little deeper for this to even reach a 4. The story line and plot fell short in every category I can think of, at times I swear the actors were ablibing lines to fill in the plot holes. So overall score... A solid 5. Hope you enjoy it, I did , past 2 hours in a flash..... My wife keeps yelling at me for singing "Monkey Paw, Monkey, monkey paw all day " over n over...lol.. (Very loud at that :))