Movie Review: Annabelle: Creation, Viceroy’s House

Dollmaker🎎 Sam Mullins and his wife, Esther are hiding a dark secret in their closet🚪, after the death of their 5⃣-year-old daughter.

Annabelle. Years later, they welcome a family of a nun and six orphaned girls into their home. But one of them opens the forbidden door...🔑

This origin film is possibly the best in the franchise, after 'Conjuring'.

It's atmospheric and eerie, scares you easily and tells a convincing story at the same time. But, it's still a template film, following in the shadows and jumpscares of legions such that have gone by.

Small price to pay, if all you're looking for is to be jolted out of your seat.

While the director🎬 undertakes to give audiences a fresh take on Partition and a discernible human connect that's oftentimes missing in History textbooks📖, what we actually get to watch is a superficial story that feels repetitive.

'Viceroy’s House' is about Lord Mountbatten's - the last Viceroy of India - dealing with Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah and his hurried job at partitioning India🇮🇳 and Pakistan🇵🇰.

The film is partly based on Narindra Singh Sarila’s book📖 ‘The Shadow of the Great Game’ which argues that Partition was the Britisher's🇬🇧 way to reign control over a postcolonial nation. But the film's wafer-thin plot does the hard-hitting book☄ disservice.

The actors are ineffective, love plots❣ impassionate and conflicts insipid. Gurinder mounts an appealing set design but battles a shallow story👎.

Source: Duta

UCJ, UNILORIN.