Joshua (2007)

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   ryano1076

   I found myself pretty disinterested for most of the film, however the ending was a nice surprise and made up for it! 8 months 3 weeks ago
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   eoveikur

   I had no expectations prior to watching this film, and I can definitely say I enjoyed it. Nice suspenseful and eerie vibe! 10 years 10 months ago
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   samoan

   Pretty decent start but becomes predictable and uninteresting by the end as well as not very scary. It is just the typical kid gone bad and terrorizes family formula, it is maybe worth seeing if you haven't ever seen a movie like it, but don't expect anything super original or new.
   
   If you seen movies like The Omen, The Orphan,The Good Son, Rosemary's Baby, Home Movie, and few other classic horror movies you can skip this movie as you have seen everything that will happen in this movie. Typical no one believes anyone, everyone acts crazy or unrealistic, and things mysterious happen that no one seems to be able to figure out it was the kid that did it, like

   the dog suddenly dies after it was walked by Joshua, grandma falls down stairs in public after Joshua almost pushes the daughter down the stairs, and the grandma cries out Joshua before falling but no one sees it, or a psychiatrist after 1 visit believes the child being abused because of one drawing, even though he has dead animals in his room and other more f'd up pictures that point to a psychopathic behavior. Terrible therapist, no one can make a diagnosis after 1 visit as people also lie.

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   The ending was bit unbelievable as well.

   The dad gets accused of abusing the kid, so he just starts beating him up in public despite not showing any behavior of abusing anyone. I am sorry, but even if you are tired and angry and suspect someone of doing something bad, you don't just turn violent.Then he is arrested and the brother just gets custody of the kids and moves them out of the apartment? What there is no trial, or anything. The mother is in a mental hospital or something, and the dad is at best awaiting trial but can probably get bail as it is his first offense. So taking the kids under the bother, ok fine he has temp custody, but moving them out of the house and having movers seem to be packing everything come on. That doesn't even make sense.It is just like a couple of days after the incident. Also child services would take the kids away first, and have a therapist talk to them to see if the abuse was a pattern or at least investigate the home. But nope, just the brother gets the kids now and we are moving out. How is it no one sees the dead gerbils but the movers? Realistically child services and/or the police would have searched the home and see the kid was a psycho.

   Overall very slow paced as well and not in an effective way. Don't get me wrong there are some great slow burn horror movies but this one just got boring.
   
   I saw most of what was coming way before it even happened because I have seen so many movies that it just copied. Anyone who likes this over the original omen, should rewatch The Omen because this is not even in its league. While not a terrible movie, it is not one that should be on any best of horror lists. It is barely a horror or suspenseful movie. I guess if you never seen a movie like it, it could be scary or a horror film to you, but there are so many better films as well as ones with the same theme.
   
   Also the end scene with the brother comes on suddenly, like the ending in Panic Room at the park, leaving you wonder what happened to the father, mother, the rest of the family, and how much time has passed since the park. But who cares, we got to set up for Joshua 2 right?
   
   Overall skip it. I didn't hate it but I also have no interest in watching it again. I find it sad that movies like Hell House LLC, Home Movie, and other great horror movies are not on any lists and yet this movie is. Sure one day it will probably be bumped off a list but the fact that it is on a list this year but so many other great movies that are 1000x better then this aren't is just sad. 2 years 10 months ago

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