The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The worst movie I have seen in years! Stupidity runs rampant in this crap ! Makes no sense at all!

Trippy movie. Eerie. Kind of Kubrick style.

Good movie. To previous reviewers: stop with the spoilers! The point of reviewing a movie is to give viewers an idea of whether it is worth investing the time to watch it, not to reveal the plot and ruin it. If you don’t like it, just say so. There’s no need to wreck the experience for other viewers.

Entertainment that causes so much strangeness in its story, but in a purposeful way to, without rushing and being assertive, develop a mystery that makes us regret its resolution, leaving the viewer in shock with the decision to be made and with the coldness that is chosen. And despite the doubt left, the killing of the sacred deer was something that had to be done!

Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth 2009) co-wrote and directed the film, which stars Colin Farell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Alicia Silverstone, Sunny Suljik and others. Colin portrays a surgeon who becomes involved with a teen kid whose father died a few years earlier as a result of his medical operation under influence. Colin's family, which consists of a daughter, a son, and a wife, is invaded by the youngster, and the two children gradually get ill, unable to walk or eat. The film boasts excellent photography and set design. Performances are also great. However, one cannot comprehend what mystical power the small boy, who behaves abnormally, possesses to cause healthy and haughty nourished youngsters to cease eating and walking. There was no explanation for this phenomena. The young boy is upset that his father died during a surgery conducted by the surgeon, yet he is perfectly OK with the idea of the surgeon having an intimate relationship with his mother. Perhaps that is an indication of a mental abnormality. But what about the background why the youngsters become ill? The film has a cruel vengeance storyline based on Greek myth (Iphigenia), which may outrage some viewers, but its objective was to create an unsettling environment for a horror narrative. If you've watched the director's film Dogtooth, you'll understand his ludicrous horror setting. Note: According to Greek mythology, Iphigenia was Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's daughter. Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, was enraged because the Greeks had killed one of the wild creatures she protected. The only way to please the goddess and was to sacrifice Iphigenia. Agamemnon consented to the sacrifice. He called his daughter from Mycenae and told her she would marry Achilles, the finest of the Greek warriors. When the girl arrived in Aulis, she was taken to Artemis' shrine and sacrificed.

This oddball film mixes upper class midwestern settings with a Grimm Fairy Tale-like story about a young boy who blames the death of his father on a doctor. The boy tells the doctor that someone in his family must die to equal things out between them and the doctor comes to believe that he must sacrifice a member of his family in order to save the rest of them. The tone, acting, and setting are really well done and very unsettling, it’s unlike almost any other movie you’ll ever see. It’s original, mesmerizing, and thought provoking.

Worst. Movie. Ever. Seriously. I want the time spent watching it back.

Devastating! Part horror, part morality play, altogether unique.

Looked interesting. Wasn’t. Writing and acting was monotone and dull. Lines were delivered with as much emotion as a tool booth operator asking for exact change. The premise was slow to develop and never fully explained. The curse was rushed into the story arch like a thought bubble shoved into a comic strip. Colin Ferrell was decent as a conflicted surgeon. Nicole Kidman couldn’t resist getting nude in another movie in order to draw a pearl-clutching gasp from the audience over her overt sexuality. Pul-leeze. The actor who played Martin was well done since it took zero affect on screen to the point of questioning his place on the autistic spectrum. The finale was an after thought. Daughter offering herself and the father’s eventual solution to choose. Lame. Afterthought — and I thought multiple times especially at the end, “where are the cops in this whole scenario?” The dad murders his son and no one says anything? Plight of the excessively indulgent and rich I suppose. A24 another swing and a miss. Flush this stinker.

Its interesting but long and unexplained. I love Barry Keoghan as I see him in more and more roles he is certainly a dude who says f it to take any weirdo role he is given. Colin Farrell was ok but actually felt like Nicole Kidman carried the scenes that they were in. Think the movie could have done with some trimming as it ultimately didn't make for a better watch with the extra 30 or so minutes that were in the film. Ending was also a bit of a let down and I don't feel like the build up to it was realistic and I am surprised it came down to what it did. Not a fan of the music trying to be the main character of the movie. It worked sometimes, but most times it was just over the top and took away from the possible creepiness that could have existed.