Review of Barbarian

Barbarian (2022)
5/10
Ultimately disappointing
7 January 2023
A woman turns up to her AirBnB, only to discover someone else is already there, due to a double-booking. She's naturally cautious when invited to share the accomodation but the other occupant turns out to be the least of her worries ...

It starts out really well and doesn't take long to get you invested in the characters. However, after the first third of the movie, things go sharply downhill as it veers off on a mansplaining mission, completely throwing all logic out of the window to give us another lecture for the me too era. It's disappointing because at one juncture it started to get seriously tense and could have gone on to be a horror classic. An awful lot of great ideas in the movie but all squandered in favour of nonsense to get its point across.

Not an awful film but disappointing due to how well it started. Overall, it is very well made and the actors do pretty well in their roles but drowns in silliness eventually.
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