Umm....I respect Dame Helen Mirren because of her work over the years, however, I have no idea why she was in this movie. Look, I want to be honest I have no set-up or intro for this review because I barely was awake throughout the movie. This movie is like a professor teaching us what is going on in each frame but his monotonic voice seems to get me to lull to sleep. Along with Fifty Shades Freed, I cannot imagine a terrible weekend of movies filled with boredom.
In San Francisco, drug-addicted psychologist Dr. Eric Price (Jason Clarke) is approached by a man from the Winchester mansion representing the widow, Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), who is very disturbed and is seeking out Eric's help in treating her. Henry is met by Marian (Sarah Snook) and her son, Henry (Finn Scicluna-O'Prey) and Marian urges Eric to not drink because her husband drunk himself to death. While hashing out memories of his dead wife by looking at the bullet, "Together Forever" and taking some drugs, Eric is startled by ghostly visions.
Later, after dinner, Eric has a session with Sarah, who is dressed in black. The only condition is if he will be honest with her, she will be honest with him surrounding their lives. During the night, Eric wanders around the mansion undetected but goes outside to see workers continuously constructing parts around the house but he sees Henry with a bag around the house walking off the ledge and Eric runs and saves his life before he hits the ground. So, what's up with that?
Last year, Get Out had a sense of hidden terror and dread that will creep you out but with metaphors and plot development but it did not give you cheap jump scares, maybe except one time. This movie has cheap jump scares and development that is not interesting. We do not find out what is going on with the characters or the plot until the second half of the movies and the revelation regarding why parts of the mansion is being sealed with 13 nails is odd and mediocre because my curiosity started to dwindle from the 5th minute because of a cliched character: the alcoholic investigator trying to redeem himself.
Jason Clarke and Helen Mirren are sleepwalking through the roles as they are not even trying and wanting to get that paycheck. The Sperig brothers, the directors, try to make it as gothic and darkly vibrant as it can but no, the whole movie almost fails in every facet of this story. The movie does not make the history interesting, the scares are not there, the possessions do not rank up with The Exorcist and The Conjuring movies and the pay-off is simply an answer as to how to solve Sarah's problem but with not much interest or surprise. This movie is medication for you to take a nap after a hard day's work. Spend money for a ticket and sleep in the theater for about two hours and you'll be refreshed.
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