The Forest (2016)

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Jason Zada directs Natalie Dormer,  Taylor Kinney and Yokiyoshi Ozawa in this weak horror about a forest in Japan, infamous for its suicides. 

The kind of flick that does absolutely nothing wrong except fatally forgets to be scary. There are a few scenes with the potential to have been more intense, a few clumsy jump scares that sit safely within the PG-13 remit of nasty (Uggghhh! Old people…. Aaaarrggghh! Foreign people….) but really all this boils down to is mucho treading of watero until a rushed twist finale that has all the emotional weight of a dry leaf. A waste of Dormer, who I’d bet most Game of Throne fans would like to see breakout into better things. A nothing film.

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