Characters were one dimensional and I had no sympathy for any of them. The best actress in the film dies in the first five minutes and I envied her escaping this mess. The remaining characters were about as likable as salt on an opened wound and the actors demonstrated their mastery of the range of emotions from fear to anger to anger-fear back to fear. Special effects were good and that's about all that saves this one from being laughable. Does anyone give a thought to plot anymore? Story telling is not incidental and having good CGI does not excuse you from making an effort at an interesting back story. Why does this threat/monster exist? Oh, well we grilled a few witches a hundred years ago and they threw some kinda burning demon tree demon on us, go figure. Movie is basically spent running around trying to get away from this nameless demon thing and screaming a lot... A LOT. I'm still not certain why the town locals, who seem to have known this was going to happen stayed around to be slaughtered, couldn't find a hotel with a hot tub? Or maybe they thought simply closing the blinds somehow made them invisible to the demon, cause you know, ostriches and everything. Don't waste your time unless you are heavily medicated and need a way to waste 90 minutes.
Review of The Hollow
