The Deliverance (2024) Movie Review | Andra Day | Glenn Close | Mo'Nique | Lee Daniels | Netflix

boy we got a movie to talk about today now  this movie is brought To Us by Lee Daniels   and who would have known that last year's Exorcist  believer which was supposed to be a trilogy but   end up getting scrapped because of how bad that  movie was that we would end up getting a sequel   in the form of this movie now is that a good thing  or a bad thing we'll be discussing that and I'll   just say this if you have seen Tyler Perry's  divorce in the black that came out just a couple   months ago and you thought that opening scene  was ridiculous let me tell you something this   movie said hold my be we'll be discussing that and  much more in today's spoiler-free review of the [Music] Deliverance now before we get this review  started please leave your thoughts on this   film once you've seen it in the comments below  what did you like what didn't you like let's   talk about it all in the comment section below  Loosely based on true events the Deliverance   follows a family living in a home in Indiana who  St to discover strange demonic occurrences that   convince them in the community that their house  is a portal to hell so I consider Lee Dames to be   a very successful and talented filmmaker producer  writer which such a claim films and projects such   as the paper boy the Butler and the hit TV show  Empire and of course 2009's precious which earned   him an Academy Award nomination for best director  and best pitcher Ali Daniels is mostly known for   doing dramas and this is his first time dabbling  in the horror genre and not just any horror movie   but this is a supernatural one at that and I do  have to do a little bit more research but as I   mentioned up top this is Loosely based on a true  story of Latoya Ammons who was a single mother who   claimed that her house was haunted and that her  children were being possessed by evil spirits and   that she needed a Deliverance which in other words  means an exorcism so is this movie a spooky good   time or does this film need to go straight back to  Hell well we'll be discussing that in this review   starting off with my positives I'm going to come  out and say I'm going to be honest with you all   this movie has a ton of problems from the pacing  it did not need to be almost two hours there's   some structuring issues there's some unexplained  plots but I would be lying to you off I didn't   tell you how entertained I was while watching  this and this is to me a quintessential bad good   movie as I was watching this movie and after it  ended to no surprise but the film's mainly stars   were all great in my opinion from Andrew day to  Glen close to anen New Ellis Taylor and after   years of beefing with one another Lee Daniels  and Mo'Nique are back working together look no   matter how bad this movie got at points the women  in this film 100% put this movie on their backs   they're carrying this movie like they are 100% the  anchors of this movie starting off with Andrea day   who plays our main character ebony now she's  a mother of three and she's holding down the   family because her husband's all fighting the war  and she's also helping her mother who's dealing   with cancer ebony is someone who you can't stand  that points in this film but you get to see that   she is actually trying to do right at least  in her eyes by her kids and helping her mom   but she unfortunately struggles with addiction to  alcohol and her own past demons she's dealing with   all while trying to stop this demon from killing  her family now I first knew of her as a singer   and then I saw her in 2021s the United States  versus Billy Holiday which was also directed by   Lee Daniels which she was great in that film  but she's even better in this truly a great   performance and her back and forth and chemistry  with Glen close is outstanding which Speaking of   Glen Close now I haven't seen all of her movies  or TV show appearances but I've seen my fair share   whether it be Fatal Attraction her is ketta laille  her in the great show damages but even though I   haven't seen all her projects I feel confident  and saying that you have never seen Glen close   in a road like this before Alberta is one of the  most interesting and memorable characters of this   year for me I want to see Halloween costumes of  her I want to see cosplays of her more importantly   I want to see her memorable lines from this  film on a t-shirt give me all the memes what a   hilarious but fascinating character and not to  give too much away but yes she is a white woman   who has a mixed child and definitely has a thing  for Blackman and has a very toxic relationship   with her daughter but she's found God but that  won't stop her from calling you a [ __ ] I'm   telling you all she is a scene Stiller and there  is a scene that takes place later on the film and   the way she delivers that line had me laughing for  10 minutes straight I'm telling you all this is a   home run of a performance by Glenn clo now while  supporting characters weren't in this film a ton   but with their limited screen time they were  still important to the story starting off with   anen new Ellis who plays a reverend who knows  a lot more than mea ey again she's not in it   a lot but she's one of the best actors alive and  she does a lot more than what she's given twitch   and gear talking about Mo'Nique who plays Cynthia  who's a social worker in this film now she plays   a lot for the laughs in my opinion in this movie  but when the film asked for her to give you more   dramatic moments she landed those especially  with the particular scene she has with Ebony's   character which talks about what it means to be  a parent that scene there really hit home on the   emotional beats now as far as the younger actors  in This film I thought they were fine they served   the purpose of this narrative and notably you have  Caleb who we all know from strer things as Lucas   he's okay he has a a dramatic scene in this film  I thought he was able to show his acting chops   and there's also a scene later in the film that  kind of has him being more physically demanding   I thought he kind of nailed in that moment the  daughter in the film is okay and then you have   the younger k kid who's like a N9 or 10 he goes  by the name of Andre he's targeted the most by   this demonic entity and the kid was fine I thought  again all the kids did the best that they could I   thought some of the direction wasn't the greatest  I thought some of the line delivery wasn't the   greatest but again the kids were we're fine in  this film now speaking to one of the more standout   elements to me about this movie was the film legit  has a very compelling and interesting story about   this family's trauma I rarely ever buy into these  modern horror movie families and deal into their   drama and what they got going on or even B into  them as characters in their situation for example   we had a horror film that came out by blumhouse by  the name of night swim which I did not care about   that Family at all this movie had the opposite  effect on me where I honestly cared more about   the story with Ebony and her mom and how she was  as a mother and how we got to see that play out in   this film ebony isn't a good mom at points of this  movie and it stems from her upbringing and the   situation that shaped her as a kid that you find  out later in this movie and it you understand her   a bit differently once you discover what happened  to her so kudos to Lee Daniels who does what I   think he does best as a director which is focusing  on the human Story the family drama diving into   what it means to be a single mom and having a  white mom and that complex relationship and I   thought that the drama was easily to me head and  shoulders the best part of this film now lastly   you may be wondering is this a scary movie is this  a legit horror movie that will get people excited   well I've said this many times on the channel and  I will continue to say this that when it comes to   horror movies what scares me might not scare you  and vice versa like I think horror is maybe the   most subjective genre besides like comedy cuz  we all have different sense of humor but when   it comes to the horror I will say to me it it it  wasn't that great and we'll talk about that in my   criticisms but I will say the third act had some  good moments of tension and some good body effects   and some good horror tropes that I really enjoyed  and it definitely pays homage to some of the more   better possession films such as the Exorcist  and also 2013's the the conjury now Switching   gears and getting into my cons but I want to  get the nitpicks out of the way first again   these are things that you might not have noticed  or things you didn't care about but there's little   things like timing referring to like okay you  established they just moved to Indiana but yet   there's some bullies up the street that's picking  on Nathaniel and you know him and you know them   and it's like how y'all know each other if you  just moved into town like little things like that   there's a structuring issue like there's a moment  in the film where things are strange going on in   the house but we go from things are strange to now  got a demon in the basement it goes from zero to   100 really fast and the Bild to that didn't work  for me and there's other moments where I feel like   the cohesion was missing there's a flow that just  felt off and there's little little details that   kind of bother me again little nitpicks doesn't  affect my score or My overall experience it's just   things that I noticed while watching this film  again I have a lot of them but those are kind of   some that come to mind but getting into my actual  criticisms things that do affect my score things   that kind of bothered me while I was watching this  film now like I mentioned earlier I'm going to do   some more research on the true story cuz I do find  it fascinating but from what I was able to find I   feel like the film missed an opportunity to really  explore this idea that what if this was actually   all made up now once you see the film and of  course if you just saw the trailer the film takes   a stance like all the stuff that's happening took  place it was real there was a demon in the house   and there was all crazy stuff going around but  again doing my little research and watching some   of the interviews before I actually watched or  after I watched the film psychologists and people   that was involved some people kind of made it seem  and doctors kind of made it seem that Latoya may   have made this up like she was making her kids  think that there was a demon in the house and I   thought that that's an interesting story and and  the film kind of plays on that but then it takes   a stance that no this all actually happened and  again I thought that the film could have been more   compelling more interesting if they would have  told that line better where it's just like is this   real did that happen but like I said the foer flag  on the ground say no this happened but I feel like   it was a Miss opportunity to maybe Explore More  of is she lying is this manipulative situation   because as I mentioned earlier ebony is a mother  that has her issues and she has her ways about   her but again there was a missed opportunity to  really explore that to that line of what was real   and what wasn't real which sticking to the idea  of the narrative that was going on in this film   and how the film tackles the race of it all right  with Hollywood there are tropes that we've seen a   bazillion times that I just kind of get tired of  at this point like there's a stereotypical there's   a single mom it's a broken home there's addiction  going on there's white people people not listen   to the black people so they're tropes that I kind  of roll my eyes at but then in the back of my head   I'm thinking well this is Loosely based on true  event so they're probably taking some elements and   creating some other things like there's different  names there's different things that went on that   didn't happen in the real story but going back  to like the race and the tropes of it all and how   Hollywood plays to the black stereotypes I just  felt like the film missed some of the Nuance like   we touch very on the surface level Lee Dames  touches on black mom not being listened to by   white doctors her having a white mom and her mom  being into black people black men in particularly   it's just like it's very service level and I  feel like there was more opportunity to explore   the nuances in those relationship the nuances  in the social commentary how black people are   looked at when it comes to how they treat their  kids you know social services so a lot of surface   level things that I can appreciate them at least  bringing it to the Forefront but let's explore   those things a little bit more that I feel like  the film didn't do as much as it could have in my   opinion now going back to my comment of this being  a good bad movie but speaking to the bad of it all   the dialogue while it was hilarious they're not  meant for comedy most of the time the film takes   itself way too seriously and it undercuts some of  the tone and attention was going on because of how   the film was written again the actors can only do  so much to make things feel real feel grounded or   have a gravitas to it but unfortunately I blame  some of the direction but also the script to being   poorly EXE it now to me the weakest part of this  film is the actual scares the horror Department   was very lacking to me in this film again it's  very subjective but I think once you see the film   you'll know what I'm referring to like is this a  joke what I mean by that is the first two halves   when it comes to the horror and the scary and  the trops of like a kid staring at the corner or   bumping his head against the wall or bumping his  head against the door it's played like a parody   to me like it's almost felt like I was watching  a scary movie I'm not talking about a scary movie   I'm talking about the scary movie the parody  that the Wayne brothers did like it's played   like a joke and for me when those moments happen  that are meant to be serious the tension and the   scares once again were undercut by the actor's  reaction by the direction by the dismissiveness   of what was going on and again just felt like  one bit comedy now yes most of your possessing   supernatural horror movies follow a certain path  a certain narrative a certain pattern so I don't   blame this movie for copying and pasting but  it all comes down to execution and to me you   can tell that Lee Daniels isn't comfortable with  handling horror again this film has great drama   but minus some silent moments in the last 20  minutes the horror beats were so bad and so   unintentionally funny to me now if you all have  seen the Amazon Prime show by the name of them   which had two seasons and season two just came  out a couple months ago and I covered it on the   channel check it out but speaking to them season  one if you guys haven't seen that basically just   a quick rundown there's a black family that moves  to Compton and there is a demonic entity in their   home and and I won't give too much away but you  find out that this entity targets black families   and bringing it back to this film this movie makes  it seem like the entity is in this one house but   it seems to be in a black community and it seems  to only target black people but it doesn't really   explain the why and the what's and what's it doing  like there's a lot of unexplained that was going   on that just kind of made it frustrating like  what is the actual goal like yes it's demonic   and it just wants Souls but it doesn't it kind  of ignores that element of the story and again   thinking about the horror elements things just  happened the horror elements were just so weak and   there's a lot of the things that just didn't add  up that didn't make sense and made for some good   laughs but cohesively speaking did not work for me  so those are my main pros and cons in my opinion   but before I share my final thoughts on the film  and give you all my score and let you know if it's   worth checking out on Netflix if you made it to  this point in the video I want to take the time   to thank you all hit the like button share your  thoughts on this movie in the comments below and   also consider sticking around by subscribing  to the channel overall the Deliverance is the   unexpected better version of what the Exorcist  believer was going for with having compelling   characters in relationships I was invested in but  unfortunately the Deliverance completely fails on   delivering the scares but again I found myself  entertained by the unseriousness of this movie   and it gave me some of the best laughs I've had  all year but sometimes bad movie can provide some   good times I'm going to give the Deliverance a 2.8  out of five this is one of those rare occasions   where I gave a film a low score and listen I was  close to giving it a three out of five because   the drama and the acting is really good in this  film like I will give Lee Daniels that but as a   horror film it fails the Mark at least for me and  and again it is so I might do a spoiler review for   this film because there are just some scenes I  think about the scene in the school and again if   you've seen Tyler Perry the the black and divorce  film and that opening funeral scene like that was   crazy this this movie tops that like it shits  on that scene you see the film you know what I'm   talking about so depending on how well this video  does like the engagement if you guys want to talk   about it I might do a spoiler review to talk more  about that scene and some of the comments that was   made by Glen clo character we might have to have  a discussion but nonetheless this is again a rare   film where I gave it a a low score but I want you  all to watch this because I want to talk about   this movie with you all cuz it's it's that bad  that it's that good that I want you all to watch   so that's my thoughts on the Deliverance again  2.85 bad horror movie good drama some really   good laugh so that's going to be the end of this  video again thank you all for watching it might   have a spoiler review keep an eye out for that  but even if I don't thank you again like share   comment subscribe you all are awesome stay  safe and I'll catch you all on the next video [Music]