Five Nights at Freddy’s has, in my view, managed to polarize fans and critics in a much more dramatic manner than I have seen in a very long time. I am straddling the line of the fan and the critic and so my viewpoint is in the middle. Five Nights at Freddy’s as seen through the right lens can be extremely fun and enjoyable one minute and completely broken the very next depending on whichever time frame of one hour and 30 minutes you choose to see it in.
The paramount advantage of Five Nights at Freddys is, of course, Freddy and the other animatronics. The Jim Henson’s Creature shop does astonishing work on Freddy, Foxie, Bonnie and Chica. The designs of the animatronic robots are convincing; however, the film manages to extract more feeling than I would have thought from these characters.
Out of all the costumes worn by the animatronics, the least scary has to be these agonizing teddy bears. It adheres to the character backstories, which is quite understandable, which are still divulged towards the end of the movie. Then again, Five Nights at Freddy’s lacks any real scares and maybe this is due to the fact that it is PG-13 rated. Although there are blood and gore scenes in the movie, as fas as the FNAF format is concerned, it is still PG-13.
I suppose PG-13 horror can work within certain parameters, however in the direct comparison to the other slasher games, Five Nights at Freddy’s, it’s easy to feel the absence of blood due to the brutal murders of the sleepover kids. There is never a heavy focus on devastation that these animatronic dolls can cause making it tougher to break the cute picture of these dolls.
Although such attacks on people in the pizzaria are never particularly “scary”, the two sequences of thwarted attempts at escape are still exciting. The end of the movie is entirely different and manages tension rather well, but watching Freddy and the gang constantly figure out new ways to keep themselves out of danger from their goals is the best part of these sequences. Because of the plot, the middle part of the film proceeds to be rather low in tension and goes over into more laughter, and this really does not assist with making Five nights at Freddy’s all that scary. As for FNAF, I think we executed the highest tension moments rather well, but I do wish there were even more of them.
Yes, Mike, as the protagonist, is engaging. Josh Hutcherson, best known from The Hunger Games, does well enough as a troubled and very vulnerable man. He’s quite vibrant but information about his background mostly explains it all.
The enigma regarding his background is intriguing, thus it’s not that bad. His little sister, Abby, is the emotional center of the movie, and she does so quite well. Though she is a child perhaps has the best lines in the film, her quirks, and the commentary of a host’s antagonism within her combine to make her more than just ‘This kid is so cute I can’t bear to see her perish desperate’ This B-plot of Mike’s aunt trying to take her away from him is completely pointless though. While it does act as the catalyst for the most terrifying moment in the film, it is pretty much exactly which is what has happened to it after.
The supporting character of Matthew Lillard is the most underused aspect of Five Nights at Freddy’s. He is hardly present in the film, and given how the storyline progresses, that is very damaging to the plot. Venessa as portrayed by Elizabeth Lail is frankly the most incompetent of all the characters in the film. There’s something perhaps appealing but unusual about her in the Freddy’s economy but her relation to Mike seems to alter and through his wanting sympathy from her but not in a physically abusive way makes one feel like this is just bad character growth rather than character development it was meant to be intended.
Her relationship with the film’s primary antagonist has not been sufficient to provide the necessary depth to her choices at the film’s end .At sharpness after a height of climax, Five Nights at Freddy’s does not rush, which is fortunate for most of Five Nights at Freddy’s, as these events at the film’s end are often bored out or totally ignored by the viewer.
As is evidenced by the conclusion, Five Nights at Freddy’s is, or is expected to be, around the 90-minute mark. Still, Five Nights at Freddy’s does not spoilt itself with such luxuries either giving most of the games fans where the story is headed. Such images or gestures are relatively cool, even though the suspense super fan thinks technically; there is still excitement, but everything isn’t that great. I think those who indulge in the lore would probably have some grievances about this aspect.
As much as it is worth the performance of the Five Nights at Freedy’s, it fell on the concepts, polls, ambition and activity levels lost time on what the series is about or was really. These games don’t give the result that motivates movie protagonists thus they aren’t worth. The FNAF phenomenon, I recall, was not of people praising the gaming iconic gameplay, but of how the fan base managed and portrayed the clues Scott Cawthon left for the history of those characters.
In as much as the school tends to undertake more action oriented film structure than that of concentrating on the ending, I think Linda Blair about this particular aspect as one of the scholars comments on movies succeeding most probably.
It is very fascinating how they develop from here but as things are at the moment, Five Nights at Freddy’s is just a bit too much incomplete and up in the air in relation to the destruction clause not to be ignored. Or that is what I thought until I watched the film again. This second phase, I found unacceptable for a first viewing.
Five nights at Freddy’s is without a doubt the hardest number rating which I’ve had to give I a feeling ACRN does not have very elaborate systems for ratings after this. This is precisely the reason why I think that whatever emotions you feel from FNAF, says more about you than about the movie itself. In an ideal set of scenarios, I pictured Five Nights at Freddy’s as an entertaining and spine tingling travel through this fantastic idea while we slowly reveal what tragedy lies in the shadows. So as a result, Five Nights at Freddy’s meets my demands. It was imperfect, and while some other critical flaws that I have expressed are inevitable, I realized in the very depths of my being that this is not a film that the critics would ever glorify. If you walk into Five Nights at Freddy’s with an open attitude bearing diastasis machinations to facepalm inept fun a beach fun it can. If you checked all the boxes for what a real horror movie is, then this is not the film for you.
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