The Skeleton Key (2005)

[Lucy Ashton]

Originally Posted by warrian

Wow. Blu-ray.com waits 4 years to review this and then completely eviscerates it.

Skeleton Key is no great shakes but there are still some things to like here. Great, sweaty, swampy, gothic southern atmosphere being primary among them.

Come on... The review may eviscerate it, but it isn't a particularly insightful or even well-written review. It's basically an "opinion review" using a lot of "feel words" (obnoxious, unlikable, etc.) rather than an analysis, and that's fine, but it's one reviewer's personal opinion. Statements such as "a pace that leaves the audience wanting", where the reviewer presumes to speak not only for himself, but for THE AUDIENCE, are unfortunate. And then there are the type of awkwardly ungrammatical sentences that you'd forgive in a hastily scribbled forum post but which are sloppy in a review, such as "The film embraces the sort of mild, toned-down PG-13 Horror routine that's far too commonplace anymore [...]"

I personally enjoyed the movie, a fact which I don't really care to justify in this post, but as for the review, stick to the screengrabs and technical specs, and you'll be fine.