Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Mama (2013) Movie Review

Watch Mama Online Free. Mama is the lastest horror movie to transmit the exalted stamp of being “presented by Guillermo del Toro” – subsequent in the tradition of such films as The Orphanage (2007) and Don’t Be Fearful of the Dim (2010). Mama tells the story of Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nélisse), two insignificant girls whose tragic family unit history leaves them stranded in the woods for five years’ time.

When their father’s twin brother, Lucas (Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), to finish tracks the girls along, it seems like the reunion is a small miracle; though Lucas’ punk-rock girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain) isn’t excessively excited with the hasty change from starving dancer to maternal outline. It doesn’t evade equipment when Annabel begins to assume that the girls may not have been fending for themselves outdated there in the woods. A little watched ended them, and is still surveillance over them in their pristine residential home; an entity the girls only submit to (in secretive whispers) as “Mama.”

Typically with these “del Toro presents” films, the acclaimed filmmaker uses his clout to both sustain a creepy/frightening tale that jammed his ghoulish attention, at the same time as too helping to showcase the work of a freshman feature-film director. Stepping cheery to bat this calculate is Andrés Muschietti, the writer/director who completed the 2008 Mama tiny silver screen that this feature-length version is based on. Muschietti proves himself to live a visual and conceptual talent, and his film is definitely boosted by the talent of Chastain (in her pre-Oscar nom days) and the two fresh actresses who fulfil as its stars. Still, while the concepts, the theater and construction of the film all present hints of abundant cleverness, the execution of the storyline is where Mama fails to capitalize by its own potential.

In terms of direction, Watch Mama Online Free is a pretty strong debut for Muschietti. The cinematography is dark but vibrant (full of earthen tones) and the sequences are all visualized and constructed in sharp, creative ways. Most of the film is confined to two locations (the woodland cabin where the girls are found and a house where Lucas, Annabel and the girls are living) but how Muschietti chooses to use these set pieces and the tight space therein is fairly smart and engaging most of the time. Instead of the usual ‘calm by day, scary by night’ progression, we instead get a lot of clever scare moments executed at all times of day (even broad daylight), using angles and framing to give even mundane moments (like doing laundry) a disturbing edge.


At 100 transcript run period, Mama isn’t closely epic in length – nonetheless it immobile shows the classify of fatigue and confusion that can repeatedly come into sight when one tries to stretch a dumpy coat out to feature length (see also: Shane Acker’s 9). While short stories allow for the quick introduction and immediate payoff of great core concepts, longer formats of storytelling require a pacing and careful balancing of time and attention that Muschietti just can’t quite get right. What we do get is about 60 minutes’ worth of very good and effective ghost story, made to look less attractive by the 40 minutes of fat hanging off of its middle. It’s regrettable since there is so much that the film does well, but as it stands, Mama is just a fairly good time, and would not be a bad call as a future rental. Watch Mama Movie Online

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