Film Review: Child's Play (Reboot)

Genre: Horror

Cert: 15

Director:  Lars Klevberg

Screenwriter:  Tyler Burton Smith (screenplay by), Don Mancini (based on characters created by)

Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Hamill, Gabriel Bateman, Brian Tyree Henry, Tim Matheson, David Lewis, Beatrice Kitsos, Hannah Drew, Trent Redekop, Amber Taylor, Kristin York, Ty Consiglio, Carlease Burke, Ben Andrusco-Daon, Veenu Sandhu

Running time: 1h 30min

Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity:

• A woman is seen in the bathroom getting ready for a shower. She has a towel over herself, then another shot of her, from the back, taking off her bra. No nudity is shown.
• A man is having an affair with the main character's mother.
• A brief scene where two people making out heavily

Violence & Gore:

• A man breaks his legs falling from his tall ladder. Briefly shown but disturbing and painful.
• A man's head is shredded by a machine then he is stabbed repeatedly through the chest with a knife. Graphic.
• A man is stabbed several times in his legs, arms, and groin, then after holding onto a burning pipe falls onto a rotating blade which severs his leg, killing him.
• A woman in a car crashes out of her control, then gets stabbed. The stabbing is not shown but her aftermath is. Bloody.
• A man falls from the roof onto a car on purpose.
• What looks like a severed head is really a character facial skin over a watermelon. This isn't treated too seriously and later plays a role in some humorous moments.
• A cat is killed off-screen, but we see the aftermath of it being stabbed.
• Several drones with sharp blades fly through a crowd of people, injuring some.
• A man is stabbed in the neck then after a while gets sliced a lot by a drone. Killing him.
• Kids get into a fist fight leaving a black eye and bruises on a few of them.
• A cat bites a kid on the hand.
• We see several brief flashes of a Chainsaw movie the kids are watching, the scenes are bloody and graphic scenes. Includes a portion of someone's head cut off, chainsaws cutting into people's bodies, the skin from someone's face, etc. (all from Texas chainsaw massacre 2)
• A lot of the blood in this movie is quite over the top, and in some cases seem like a small fountain of blood squirting out of certain wounds

Profanity:

• Strong, but infrequent, language throughout.
• Many uses of "shit" and "fuck" throughout 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: None

Frightening/Intense Scenes: 

• The Chucky doll will frighten many by its creepy appearance alone. He becomes more violent the further the movie goes on.
• Several Jump Scares and suspenseful situations.

Story: A mother gives her 13-year-old son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.

Likes: Growing up on the Original Child's play films, that gave birth to the Rubber serial killer doll Chucky I was skeptical about this reboot. Apoun viewing the trailer I was really unsure, after watching the film in full I have a serious issue with this film because it is absolutely flawed.

Not that the film has a little bit of entertainment and the acting is pretty solid, Mark Hamil's voice for Chucky actually gives a creepy tone to the doll which is perfect, There were moments in the first half of the film I found funny because the doll was doing some funny and weird things that were hilarious, As horror fans we are getting a few killed that was pretty twisted and inventive, But sadly the film as whole Lets down the hard work that been put into this film that I have to be brutally honest.

If you never have seen the original Chucky films, this film might appeal to you, but the original fans of the original Chucky movie will hate this film

Dislikes: Let me make this perfectly clear this wasn't Chucky, not by a long shot, not where near the concept of Chucky. which make me wonder if the director or writers ever watched the original childsplay movie.

I understand they its a reboot and they need to do something Different But changing the concept from a spirit to an AI just 100% killed the film, not only from making a sequel, it just made chuck unrealistic with no personality.

See the original film was given a personality because it wasn't just a Toy, it had an evil twisted human spirit control the body of the toy which gave chucky a personality and a reason to kill, Here with this film is just copying what other people were saying and it has no motive other than an AI to kill it just feels very lazy writing.

Which is a shame because you have a legend Mark Hamil who has the voice for this film, you could've had him playing a twisted Serial killer in the film almost like the original, with a slight change, with Mark Hamil becoming the Doll, this would have been so much better for the film because his voice is perfect.

Im sorry but that third act of the film was god awful, no shop would sell toys like that, that would have Sharp edges to do what they did, again what was the writer thinking here, very poor and weak storyline that completely kills Any sequel being done

Overall: Blend horror film that could've been done so much better, it like Hollywood has no imagination anymore.

Rating: 4.2 out of 10 Entertainment / 5.2 out of 10 for Reboot.