Focused Distortion: Movie Review: 11-11-11

Synopsis: After the tragic death of his wife and child, famed American author Joseph Crone travels from the United States to Barcelona, Spain to reunite with his estranged brother and dying father. However, fate has a different plan for Joseph as his life becomes plagued with strange happenings, and the constant sightings of the number 11. Curiosity quickly turns to obsession, and Joseph soon realizes that this number holds a horrific meaning not only to himself but possibly to all of religion. Joseph soon realizes that 11/11/11 is more than just a date, it's a WARNING.

Here's another warning: the only scares in this movie are few and far between and the plot is just silly.

I think I know what happened here... some Hollywood executives got together and decided the date 11/11/11 (which is actually 11/11/2011... 11/11/11 happened 2000 years ago) would be a cool gimmick for a movie, so they had Darren Lynn Bousman throw a script together in about 11 minutes and said "let's open it in theaters on 11/11/11 (again... that was actually 2000 years ago) and presto, we get this film that really didn't even need the gimmick of the number 11 and it would have been the same. It's trying to be a horror movie as well but there's just absolutely only a few jump scares or creepy horror to speak of. It could have had some fun with the whole religious angle but failed there too.

It's just a total fail.

Go watch The Number 23 then watch The Omen and smash them together and imagine them much more laborious and dull. It's predictable as it flows right through to a silly ending and by that point I'd quite caring and was checking the run time.

Interesting concept and premise at least, but it'll be 11/11/2111 before I try to watch this again I think.

3.0/10

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