"You'll float too!"

IT

Mini Review

[September 07th, 2017]

It has been awhile since my last outing to watch movie in the city and it came with a nonstop pulsating headache after the viewing experience despite my constant effort to hydrate myself. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the movie from start to finish, unlike the preceding incarnation of Stephen King's novel.

It is a massive foresight to adapt the massive book into two full length motion pictures and separate them between the first encounter of the Losers i.e. the main children of Derry with the Dancing Clown and the second when they return to the town when It came back. The Dark Tower suffered with the studio's decision to boil down its huge mythology into an hour and thirty minutes summary that was just essentially a typical action flick without the substance of character progression behind them. It however have that with aplomb as all seven main cast got enough screen time each for us to care for them and their personal psychological journey being tormented by the clown.

The town is being brought to life wonderfully with their older citizens could not be trusted especially those around the kids, forcing them to band together against this supernatural being that have far reaching back history since the inception of the town. A more in depth dive into It's inception and how it ties with the town's coloured history might be reserved for the sequel since the running time of two hours and fifteen minutes are full with the interactions between the Losers and how they're terrorized by It's never-ending influence.

A clearer indication of why the killings are starting again could be told in the beginning but it was revealed throughout the movie that it happened like a clockwork and it just so happened this time they were It's main demographic for choose from as food to replenish It's energy. The relentless horror and thriller aspect of the movie came from the manifestations of each kid's biggest fear while using the R rating to its fullest. You have been warned!

Tim Curry's original portrayal of the titled antagonist was a different shade of the character compared to how Bill Skarsgård interpreted the infamous villain and by being on the more sinister and chilling side of the spectrum, his performance was the standout of this modern interpretation as his presence kept haunting each frame of the film. Kudos to Bill especially and Andrés Muschietti with adept hands in carefully balancing his direction for the materials.

All in all, I can't wait to see the followup when they come back (possibly twenty seven years later?) to the cursed town once again all grown up but probably still with the excess baggage from their childhood. Even Stephen King praised it, and he is the most fickle of them all! Have you watched it yet? And if you haven't, are you looking forward to it?

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That's is for now ... please tune in for my full review in the future. Until next time!