The Stepfather

So in yet another splurge my roommate and I ended up heading to the Waterfront to see another movie. For months my roommate has been obsessing over the movie The Stepfather and has been dying to see it. I will admit I had no real interest in seeing it but she always surprises me with films that actually are decent so I went along. The Stepfather is another one of those films that has the high school screw-up pitted against the serial killer to prove himself. And I promise that I haven't ruined the plot of this movie at all because you know this from the multitude of trailers that they've been showing since this summer. Dylan Walsh, the star of Nip/Tuck, plays David Harris the serial killer stepfather who begins to have issues keeping his story straight with his new victims. His character is very unique and a killer that keeps you questioning, not whether or not he's going to kill them but what exactly it is that makes him tick. And then you have Penn Badgley, star of Gossip Girl and the real reason my roommate wanted to see this, playing the disappointed high school screw-up who slowly begins to realize there's more to Harris than meets the eye. I admit I wasn't going into this movie with high expectations but this movie was really disappointing. I think the premise was really unique and the beginning is pretty well thought out but it really didn't work in the end. It was way too predictable and the ending really just came without any closure. I ultimately didn't like the movie and am sad that I wasted my five dollars to see it in theaters, it was definitely one of those movies that could have waited until it came out.