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By Peter Hartlaub San Francisco Chronicle
["656"]Posted January 13, 2017
January 11, 2017
Updated January 13, 2017 12:05am
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Carrie-Anne Moss appears in the abhorrence blur “Bye Bye Man.”
["1500"]“The Bye Bye Man”
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(PG-13, 96 minutes.)
The Bye Bye Man is a alarming ghoul with a skinless dog, who stalks and kills anyone who speaks his name out loud. He can acquire people, airing through walls and allegedly drudge the better companies in the world. (The appearance has, somehow, adjourned his name from Google.)
And he is, by far, the best analytic affair in “The Bye Bye Man.”
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The abhorrence blur feels off, as if forth with the souls of the academy kids in the movie, the bad guy fabricated off with 20 cardinal account of blur as well. There’s a abridgement of consistency, giving the consequence that every arena was attempt in one take, a few weeks afar from anniversary other. Moments of amusement abatement flat, and acute artifice credibility are accidentally hilarious.
Worst of all, it’s absurd to affliction about any of the characters, because they don’t affliction about themselves. Who, afterwards seeing the reaperlike bad guy and his scabby basset in person, in a apple area Courtyard by Marriotts exist, would acknowledgment to their alarming Bye Bye Man abode at bedtime?
“The Bye Bye Man” begins, promisingly, with a anamnesis arena to 1969, area an atoning announcer is demography a shotgun to anyone — including admired ones — who said the Bye Bye Man’s name. It looks like a center appropriate “It Follows” admiration may be on the way.
But again we beam advanced to the present, area three academy acceptance move into a behemothic abode that could calmly beddy-bye an absolute fraternity. One by one they say the name, and blooper into a apple of abhorrence and paranoia.
Two flaws bound emerge:
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1. “Bye Bye Man,” while not a byword one uses every day, is article anybody about absolutely will say at atomic already in their life. (“You abiding you won’t break and smoke addition bowl?” “Naw, aloof appetite to exhausted traffic. Bye bye, man.”) Conservatively, 60 percent of the citizenry would accept been dead by this creature, and this would accept fabricated the news.
2. The acceptance are such zeros, there’s actual little advance in their survival. They don’t assume to work, abstraction or do any allusive volunteering. The alone one with a absolute assignment belief in this cine is the Bye Bye Man.
The blur bare a lot of fixing, but there’s added to the problems than aloof the autograph and directing. Some awkward edits of abandon and sex scenes advance the cine may accept been spliced to ensure a PG-13 rating. “The Bye Bye Man” is the affectionate of blend that happened by committee.
There are a few not-horrible moments. Both flashbacks accept a aphotic banana timing that the abreast scenes never get right. Some of the sequences with the Bye Bye Man (played with angular annoyance by Doug Jones) are aloof awe-inspiring abundant to be interesting.
And Faye Dunaway and Carrie-Anne Moss appearance up in baby parts, exuding added breach in a brace of account than any of the adolescent actors in the leads. Booty all the millennials you want, Bye Bye Man, but don’t blow Trinity or Mommie Dearest.
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