Tarot | Film Review

 

When a group of friends play with a cursed deck of tarot cards, they each soon find themselves in danger of facing the fate the cards described.

I was looking forward to this one. It seemed fun, original and like something that could be light while also providing a good few scares.

Unfortunately this wasn't as good as I wanted it to be.

It doesn't start off in the most original way - a group of teenagers/young adults doing something they shouldn't, ignoring the warning signs and getting themselves into trouble. It's not unique, but it works for me!

The jump scares are done well, especially in the beginning. There were also some really creative death scenes and scares.

But the film suffers from odd pacing. The audience barely gets time to process the first death when the second death occurs. But then after this, it takes a while for anything to happen.

The explanation around this cursed deck of cards not only doesn't quite make sense, but the characters believe everything way too quickly. There's one who is a bit sceptical, but the rest are just completely happy to accept these strange events.

None of the characters feel like real people with personalities. I realised when the film had less than 30 minutes to go that I didn't actually know any of the character's names.

Overall, while some bits of the film were really creative, the script is weak and the story doesn't always make sense. So while I might watch this again just as a silly movie with some fun jumpscares, I probably wouldn't recommend it.

4/10