The guru of all screenwriters Syd Field says in one of his many screenplay rules that everything you need to know about a good movie it's in its ten first minutes. If you watch this first ten minutes than it will be good. That rule is controversial but in this case worked admirably and I made my own rule: After one (1) minute of watching this thriller travesty disguised as horror film I knew it would suck. But I kept watching, torturing myself with some funny scenes, no blood whatsoever and specially no scary and tense scenes. One minute and that's all it took to make of "April Fool's Day" one of the worst films I ever seen.
A bunch of pretty and rich teenagers in a débutant party made by two brothers Blaine and Desiree (Josh Henderson and Taylor Cole) who wants to make a prank on Milan (Sabrina Aldridge) a girl hated by Desiree for reasons unknown. But it turns out that the April Fool's prank resulted in the accidental death of Milan and one year later of that event all the group involved with it starts to receive threats of someone who wants them to confess Milan's murder. And just like many other movies of the genre these teens are getting killed in awful ways (nothing is showed actually so a kid can watch this movie with no problem).
I watched this movie as result of a simple mistake where I was switching TV channels and saw this movie description and I saw the name of Josh Henderson (which I didn't know who was) but in my mind I've read Josh Hutcherson (the boy from "Bridge to Terabithia") thinking "Oh if he's in the movie that might be a good movie to watch. Well he wasn't in it (Lucky!) and it turned out to be a great disaster.
The plot is obvious, the plot twist it's quite funny (Blaine's expression while getting shot was completely ridiculous and everybody knows that he was going play a prank on his sister) and the acting? Boy it was awful than everything I saw in terms of thriller-comedy-horror-drama films. These so-called actors know that they can't act? The beauty looks on everybody's face here was just a distractive thing, now if you wanna see acting in real horror movies go watch "The Exorcist" or "Saw" with the incredible Tobin Bell. I mean, even in "One Missed Call" one of the weakest films I've ever seen there's a good performance in it.
The unintentionally funny stuff is delivered in the "death scenes" (except for the real ones). The most funny and stupid scene is delivered by the smiling young guy running for a chair in the Senate. He's running away with Desiree while they were being chased by a white van and these two are running in front of the van expecting not to get hit. And his allegedly death in this incident is incredibly funny, you only see his briefcase and many papers flying and no sound of body falling or smashed under wheels which means: how Desiree knew he was dead? She's so dumb to that point? And most important, the director and writers really thought that audiences could be that stupid and believe in that?
Other thing that was enormously bad was the TV news show. That lack of a little bit of reality, the whole phony concept was annoying, the host can't barely present the news and in the two scenes involving her and the reports of the prank I wanted to throw something on the screen because it was that bad.
Let us pray so that no directors, writers and actors want to make more movies like this anymore. And as a part of the audience I don't wanna see this thing ever again. Unfortunately I have to give 1 star but if I could I would give -1 in the film score. 1/10
A bunch of pretty and rich teenagers in a débutant party made by two brothers Blaine and Desiree (Josh Henderson and Taylor Cole) who wants to make a prank on Milan (Sabrina Aldridge) a girl hated by Desiree for reasons unknown. But it turns out that the April Fool's prank resulted in the accidental death of Milan and one year later of that event all the group involved with it starts to receive threats of someone who wants them to confess Milan's murder. And just like many other movies of the genre these teens are getting killed in awful ways (nothing is showed actually so a kid can watch this movie with no problem).
I watched this movie as result of a simple mistake where I was switching TV channels and saw this movie description and I saw the name of Josh Henderson (which I didn't know who was) but in my mind I've read Josh Hutcherson (the boy from "Bridge to Terabithia") thinking "Oh if he's in the movie that might be a good movie to watch. Well he wasn't in it (Lucky!) and it turned out to be a great disaster.
The plot is obvious, the plot twist it's quite funny (Blaine's expression while getting shot was completely ridiculous and everybody knows that he was going play a prank on his sister) and the acting? Boy it was awful than everything I saw in terms of thriller-comedy-horror-drama films. These so-called actors know that they can't act? The beauty looks on everybody's face here was just a distractive thing, now if you wanna see acting in real horror movies go watch "The Exorcist" or "Saw" with the incredible Tobin Bell. I mean, even in "One Missed Call" one of the weakest films I've ever seen there's a good performance in it.
The unintentionally funny stuff is delivered in the "death scenes" (except for the real ones). The most funny and stupid scene is delivered by the smiling young guy running for a chair in the Senate. He's running away with Desiree while they were being chased by a white van and these two are running in front of the van expecting not to get hit. And his allegedly death in this incident is incredibly funny, you only see his briefcase and many papers flying and no sound of body falling or smashed under wheels which means: how Desiree knew he was dead? She's so dumb to that point? And most important, the director and writers really thought that audiences could be that stupid and believe in that?
Other thing that was enormously bad was the TV news show. That lack of a little bit of reality, the whole phony concept was annoying, the host can't barely present the news and in the two scenes involving her and the reports of the prank I wanted to throw something on the screen because it was that bad.
Let us pray so that no directors, writers and actors want to make more movies like this anymore. And as a part of the audience I don't wanna see this thing ever again. Unfortunately I have to give 1 star but if I could I would give -1 in the film score. 1/10