It's annoying stupid, not fun stupid.
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02/14/01
Bless the Child (2000)
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Reviews Counted:95
Fresh:3
Rotten:92
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: Bless the Child doesn't scare, but may provoke unintended laughter from audiences. It's basically a B-movie.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O’Connor’s (Kim Basinger) well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital --... [More]
Starring: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell, Ian Holm
Director: Chuck Russell
Reviews for Bless the Child
Shamelessly silly, Bless The Child notches up the clichés as the daft story meanders towards a suitably hammy conclusion.
12/30/06
Top CriticThe set-up ... doesn't exactly have you performing cartwheels of excitement as it lays out its rather transparent tussle between good and evil.
04/17/01
Top CriticEfficiently made hokum.
12/10/01
The use of child jeopardy as a cheap suspense mechanism is somewhat dubious, but one's unease is slightly mollified by the fact that much of this is far too silly to take seriously.
06/24/06
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08/23/02
Let's hope Smits didn't quit the 15th Precinct for this crap.
01/01/00
Egad. How this awful thriller got made is beyond me.
01/01/00
This movie is filled with such nonsense.
08/02/02
There are too many tricks and there's too little compelling plot here.
01/01/00
Too much of a bloodfest to let the characters progress beyond stereotypes, too much of a special effects extravaganza to be really tense, too draggy to really captivate audiences.
01/01/00
[A] perfunctory blend of cheap shocks and fashionable murkiness.
01/01/00
The unintentional effect of movies like Bless the Child is that they are enough to make agnostics out of true believers.
01/01/00
Bless the Child has the static, bland look of a TV movie.
01/01/00
Bless the Child is almost bad enough to become a cult classic.
01/01/00
Must the makers of Bless the Child bang us over the head with symbolism?
01/01/00
As ponderous and pointless as a supernatural thriller can possibly get.
04/19/01
Planning to lighten your wallet to gawk at this train wreck for a couple of hours? Here's a better idea: Shred up a few handfuls of fives and ones and use them to line the cage of your child's pet gerbil.
01/01/00
For my money, Bless the Child is a much funnier parody of a thriller than Scary Movie -- it just doesn't realize it.
01/01/00
To call Bless the Child ridiculous doesn't begin to cover it.
01/01/00
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