Review Tuesday: The Empty Man 2020

  

 

The Empty Man

2020

A private investigator looks into a series of missing people. 

My BFF made a big deal about this movie. It's a supernatural horror film and she really wanted to see it with me. Okay, sure, why not? 

 

The movie starts off two pairs of hikers somewhere in Asia. Suddenly one man hears something... something that no one else int he group could hear. He walks off and falls down a crevasse. When his friend finds him, he appears to be seated in some position of prayer before the skeleton of some eldritch horror. He whispers to his friend, don't touch me or you will die. Seriously, who would go along with that? So his friend pulled him out of there in a catatonic state. They carried him some distance before finding an abandoned home where they decide to check that guy out and evaluate their situation. Well, his friends all end up dead. 

 

And that's the first five minutes of this 2.25 hour movie. Woo! This is going to be something amazing, right? 

 

The next scene is after a time jump in some small town, USA. Some kids disappeared. One is known by a local Private Investigator named James Lasombra (James Badge Dale). He starts on a mission of twists and turns that's oddly involved with the urban myth of THE EMPTY MAN which seems to be written at all of the scenes where people are mysteriously vanishing and / or committing suicide.    

 

Lasombra ends up traveling all over trying to track down some wacked out cult that worships this Empty Man and it all ties into the dude from the beginning, and is Lasombra really for real? 

 

Okay, this felt like it was way too long and the ending was way too contrived. It wasn't very satisfying at all. Not a very high rating from me. Sorry.