“Never Let Go”: An Uneventful and Boring Thriller
This horror film, starring Halle Berry, will cure your insomnia.
Summary
With the world taken over by evil, a house in the forest becomes the only protection for a mother and her two sons. Staying connected to the house, and each other, is the only way to remain good and pure.
But when one of the boys starts to question whether this evil is real or not, the ties that keep the little family together are severed, exposing them to what is lurking in the shadows.
A Huge Waste of Time
I was not expecting this film to be a gem, but it was even worse than I imagined. That was an hour and forty minutes of my life that will never come back.
Never Let Go introduces us to a mother (played by Halle Berry) and her two twin boys, who live in a secluded house in the middle of the forest. In the first few minutes of the film, we are explained through a voiceover that, at some point, the world has been dominated by an evil. The kids’ grandparents built the house to protect themselves and their family from it.
When it became dangerous to go outside, the grandfather came up with the idea of attaching ropes to the house so they could stay in touch with that source of good. The kids’ father is also mentioned, but when the movie starts, there are only the mother and boys left, and they seem to be the only survivors in the world.
The family is struggling to survive because the ropes prevent them from going too far, and they don’t have food. But the mother refuses to let go of the house, no matter what.
Over time, one of the boys, Nolan, begins to question the existence of the evil, and to mistrust his mother’s attitude.
Evil or Delusion?
The most important question the film needed to answer was: Was the mother insane or not?
She is the only one who can see all those shapes the evil takes, the one who insists that there is no other survivor than them. At some point, it is even suggested that she killed her own parents and the father of her children because the evil reached them. She ends her own life to avoid the same fate, leaving her kids all alone.
As the movie moves forward, we can see that there are more people out there, and the world keeps moving. So, is there no evil after all? Do the kids begin to hallucinate due to starvation? Or has the evil possessed them as well?
It’s not an open ending, most things are just left unexplained, and it’s very underwhelming.
Box Office Results
Never Let Go has made less than $22.000.000 at the box office so far, against a budget of $20.000.000.
Seeing that it has been almost a month since the film hit theaters, and considering how little attention it has received from audiences, I don’t think it will make much more.
