BAD REVIEW: The Babysitter (2017)

What a piece of crap. Of course McG made this. OF COURSE he did. His career can be summed up by three things: Getting head-butted by Bill Murray, making Christian Bale lose his mind on set and making a terrible movie about a killer babysitter. Seriously, how do you screw up that idea? Anyone else could have turned this into something interesting. Give it to your average film student, and you'll get something more inventive, more charming, more funny and more scary. This has none of that. The writing is lazy, the characters are awful stereotypes, the editing choices are bizarre, shots are out of focus and the story itself shifts sloppily as it unravels on screen. Characters are developed in a way that makes no sense. The babysitter in question here doesn't ever come across as nefarious and cruel until she randomly kills a guy during a game of spin-the-bottle. Oh, well, she's the baddie now. Let's go with it. This whole film was beneath Netflix.