Seeing as yesterday was the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year, I thought it only right that I watch the film of the same name, 11-11-11, the new film from Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw's 2-4, Repo! The Genetic Opera.) It's synopsis of bizarre events occurring on dates and times with the number 11 in sounded appealing, but in the end I was left rather bored by the film.
Joseph Crone (Timothy Gibbs) is an author struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife and child, when he is told that his dying Father doesn't have much time left, so he travels to Barcelona to visit him and his estranged brother Samuel (Michael Landes.)
Once there, Joseph discovers more and more evidence to support a mounting theory that recent events are all occurring at dates and times containing the number 11, all leading up to the upcoming 11th November 2011...
Usually this is the kind of thing that really interests me, as the film started discussing demonology and the number 11 in history and things like that, but I just failed to click with any of it, and found the whole thing a rather tedious chore, if I'm brutally honest.
That's not to say the film doesn't have it's moments. There's plenty of jump moments, and unsettling moments with demon faces lurking in the background, but the whole thing is for nothing as when the demons actual show up in full form at the end, it just looks like GWAR showed up for a gig. It just gets sillier and sillier after that.
There's nothing wrong with the acting of direction, and you may get more out of it than this reviewer did, but I found the whole thing to be quite uninspired.
*1/2
A harsher score than I first thought, but I really didn't get on with this. There's the odd unsettling moment, but things are quite dull, until the silly ending rears it's ugly head. The whole thing seems like a missed opportunity that for obvious reasons, won't get a do-over
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