The Veil Review

The Veil Review

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Starring Jessica alba, Thomas jane, and Lily Rabe and it isDirected by philjoanou

This story is largely inspired by the mass suicide that happened in Jonestown, Guyana in the year 1977. Around 900 people died including women and children.  This movie borrows a lot of elements form that incident but many of the names and dates have been changed for this movie.

In the movie, members of this cult who were following preacherjim Jacobs commit mass suicide. Only one 5yr old girl by the name of sarah survives this horrible incident.

Still after 25 years, Lot of thequestions remains unanswered like how did she survive? why did they all commit suicide? Why were they following jim Jacobs in the first place?

The sole survivor of the mass suicide sarah hope (played by Lily Rabe) receives a letter from Maggie price asking her to join her. Maggie price (played by Jessica alba) is a filmmaker who is trying to investigate incident and wants to make a documentary on the mass suicides.she wants to go back to the place where it all beganand find some answers behind these mysterious suicides. Sarah reluctantly agrees to join her and returns to the scene of the tragedy.

Initially I was fascinated by the story and kind of wanted to know more about the characters and where they are going. Sarah is one of the main characters that the film focuses on but she has the biggest flaws in the movie. She is not well defined in the movie. Foreg:  sarah has this premonition about one of the crew members and the next day he goes missing. Shit!!!! Why doesn’t she tell anybody? I like lily rabe and she was fantastic in American Horror story but I wish that her role was better written.

Finally we come to Jim Jacobs(Played by Thomas jane),  who is the preacher and the founder of the cult. He is loosely based on  jim jones the real cult leader. I won’t say much about his character but i will say this, Thomas is good in this role but the story lets him down but he owns the role quite well. The most screwed up character of the film is the Karen sweetzer’s Character. At one point in the film you are left wondering why is she doin that to her daughter?

My final thoughts on the film guys. It is a horror movie, which tries to tell a story in a new and unique way, but the film looses the “scary factor”mid way through the movie. There are jump scares here and there but it doesn’t work. The Second half of the film is not as good as the first half. The ending is very inconsistent

I give this movie a 5 out of 10  watch the movie on bluray

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