Abigail 4K 2024 Ultra HD 2160p

A group of criminals kidnaps 12-year-old Abigail, the daughter of a powerful criminal mastermind. While waiting for ransom, the bandits encounter the girl's vampiric tendencies.

User Review

Directors Matthew Bettinelli and Tyler Gillette have made a fascinating black comedy called ‘I Go Looking’. However, this undemanding horror does not evoke any positive emotions, let alone delight.

Violence in contemporary cinema has become a major form of social communication, presenting a grotesque mirror of ‘hypernaturalism’. The authors have ‘ridden’ the dominance of violence and gallop in the bloody prose of everyday absurdism, urging the viewer not to think, not to reflect, but only to be entertained ‘with their eyes bulging’. Such primitivism has its place, especially if the author is unique and has his own charisma. In this case, we see a hypertrophied child image in a musical and choreographic performance.

And as we can see from the positive reviews of teenagers and grown-up “Peter Pan”, this approach resonates, and we hear deafening cries of admiration. But do not worry, the puberty period is passing, although it can be prolonged.

The leitmotif of the painting is sucking candy, a child's treat, and it is not connected to anything in the painting, most likely it is something personal. The heroine's makeup is very striking, very contrasting makeup, apparently they tried to rejuvenate the actress or make up for flaws.

The beginning of the film is decent: diverse heroes, interesting non-standard plot, not bad introduction to the characters through a characterizing verbal portrait, but all this is only up to the main turn. The basis of the movie, or rather its flaw, lies in the main action scene: endless chases for the victim, games of ‘catch if you can’. They are too primitive both in realization and in conception. The situation is saved by a rare humor, but it is woefully lacking. There is not enough subtle humor to mask the straightforwardness and simplicity. Though they say that brevity or simplicity is the sister of talent, but in this case, it is a characteristic of a different order, it is rather a flaw.

The acting is not to be praised: the producers are too keen on the demonic running of a young psychopath after adult outsiders. For the basis of the plot borrowed element from the series “Outside” - a box with a dancing ballerina, well, at least someone inspired this mystical “Santa Barbara”, with an incoherent conceptual jumble of underdeveloped ideas, in which even the authors themselves are not able to understand.

Strongly stands out Dan Stevens, who performed the role of a former policeman. His character stands out with excessive neuroticism, apparently, the producers frantically thought up a way to justify his latent antagonism, but except for annoying tantrums they found nothing better.

In second place on the list is Melissa Barrera. As I've mentioned before, her provocative makeup, and close-ups are aesthetically violent. However, the pain is the base of this “bloody drama”, the sacred nature of everything that happens. Her acting is quite moderate, if one can even put it that way. She is observant and determined, and her sensitivity and guilt convincingly justify the author's decision.

The third most important character is Abigail, the young actress Alisha Weir has tried very hard, and her diligence is noticeable. The ability to gracefully curve and tap her false ‘fangs’ is something not every teenager can do. Unfortunately, her performance “sags” at the moment when she reveals to the characters the essence of what is happening, but otherwise she shows herself as an energetic and promising actress, and copes well with the director's task.

Particularly impressive was the portrayal of Abigail's father, the best acting in this movie - Matthew Goode showed a master class. His cameo was brighter than the whole movie as a whole.

Watching this picture, for me personally, can be compared to a senseless feat of Sisyphus: I regret wasting my time on this casual bloody ballet, which lacks the ability to experience or even to think.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (60.8 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1
#English: Dolby Digital Plus with Dolby Atmos 5.1
#German: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1
#Spanish (Latino): Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
#French: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
#Italian: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1

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