Blumhouse's live-action Five Nights at Freddy's is a mildly entertaining, if lackluster, video game adaptation.
Five Nights at Freddy's Score Details “” Pros Cons In the nine years since it began, the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise has grown to become one of the biggest properties in video game history. As the series’ popularity has grown, so, too, has the complexity of its in-world lore and the backstories of its central, uncannily scary animatronic killers.
At the center of Five Nights at Freddy’s is Mike Schmidt , a down-on-his-luck mall cop who loses his job after mistaking a moment of tension between a father and son for an actual kidnapping. Forced to find a new gig in order to maintain custody of his kid sister, Abby , Mike accepts an offer from his career counselor, Steve Raglan , to become the new night security guard at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a decrepit, long-closed family restaurant from the 1980s.
Unfortunately, as often as its story opens the door for Five Nights at Freddy’s to hit some truly terrifying beats, it never fully delivers on that front. Instead, every time it seems like the film is going to cross over into some genuinely scary territory, it cuts off its own momentum in order to make way for new exposition dumps and moments of unnecessary relief.
As admirable and outside-of-the-box as its intentions are, though, it’s hard not to shake the sense throughout Five Nights at Freddy’s, which clocks in at 109 minutes long, that it has gotten a bit too lost in the weeds of its own story. Several of the later scenes between Lail’s Vanessa and Hutcherson’s Mike strive for a profundity that the film never quite achieves.
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