M3GAN

Chucky ne fait pas le poids. Cette petite « Terminatorette » le neutraliserait d’un simple regard. Seulement, elle est plus puissante qu’effrayante. Et M3GAN a beau appartenir à la catégorie des films d’horreur, il ne fait pas peur. Il ne crée même pas de suspense et ne provoque pas la moindre frayeur. Mais il reste attentif à ses dialogues et à la logique, et ne tombe pas dans le ridicule. Et il est techniquement à la hauteur. M3GAN est en fait très jolie. Une sorte de Barbie Tesla qui devient folle. Les fans de robots et de « robotes » seront ravis. (03/04/2023)

Une copie sans originalité du récent remake de Child's Play: La poupée du mal, banale, pas vraiment captivante ni effrayante. J'ai sursauté une seule fois quand le chien a aboyé à un moment inattendu. De bons acteurs et quelques moments émotionnels corrects, mais sinon un film d'horreur très bas de gamme et assez stupide sur le thème classique de la propagation de la peur irrationnelle des technologies modernes chez les personnes qui n'ont aucune idée du fonctionnement de l'intelligence artificielle. Je ne comprends pas les éloges enthousiastes venant de l'étranger. (12/01/2023)

This year's first mainstream horror genre film is just your average high tech affair. Although M3gan has received good reviews overseas (Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB are both overwhelmingly praiseworthy), die-hard horror fans are certainly not overflowing with enthusiasm. M3gan is a modern variation on Chucky for Gen Z, so to speak, highlighting the dangers of modern technology and how treacherous it can be. Unfortunately the film is hurt by the PG-13 rating and it's all too family friendly and safe. It rambles on for over an hour and getting to know the characters isn't much fun, in short it's more of a drama about a little girl's relationship with a doll that classically starts to turn into a killer monster. It's a shame the premise didn't live up to its potential, it aimed for big things, butthe few murders probably wouldn't have been much even with an R-rating (we might have got 2-3 small gore scenes), which, compared to the new Evil Dead  is a mockery. The atmosphere doesn't work very well and the scares aren't there either, so it plays more on a disturbing note, but I wasn't too impressed with that either. Some even claim it's a comedy, but you must have a very obscure sense of humour. The finale at least saved it from being average for me. The battle in the house is very well filmed. M3GAN is properly creepy there for the first time in the film (her moves are admittedly copied from demons in traditional exorcism genre movies, but it looks even cooler in a robotic way) and her final appearance is also decent, It’s not worth going to the cinema, it's watchable, but the movie would be more fitting on VOD. 55% (14/01/2023)

A harmless, well-made popcorn horror flick for young cinema-goers, enjoyable and designed to be a success. I had fun too, but higher ratings should go to films that try to do something; something slightly bolder, more daring, more surprising or less comfortable for the audience. I was kind of expecting at least a more exciting ending – the film raises the expectation for a bigger, off the rails carnage considering what the plot is leading to. But in the end it was nothing; I felt betrayed. (12/01/2023)

Horror for the TikTok generation. It mostly blew me away at the end because it's basically a rip-off of Aliens, where instead of a space monster there's a futuristic doll, the adult heroine learns to be a mother, and the little girl is the ultimate badass. It’s also a critique of the marketing frenzy that drives technology against humanity using emotional coercion. I had fun, but I find it ironic that it's the kind of consumerist and faddish product taking advantage of modern trends that it actually warns against (13/01/2023)