This movie is poorly told. The concept is good. The beginning, although boring, still manages to drag you along, but then there is something missing until the ending which makes the ending feel unrealistic. I mean it is a simple concept, the same we use on animals. They follow us into slaughter, and huge elephants don'T resist a tiny rope around their ankle. They have unlearned the ability to struggle. I think that is what the maker tried to tell, but he failed to get the main characters to that point as if he ran out of time or ideas and settled for what the movie ended up to be. Björns lack of backbone exposes him to being conditioned, and then the ending should happen, but the conditioning is missing. No backbone is not enough to act the way the family did at the end. The lack of skill on the regisseur shows when he needs to constantly remind you this is actually a horror movie by having nature shots with foreboding music. Without that, you wouldn't even know this is a horror until the end.

This movie is awesome. Why did they remake it?

So, here we are, first time ever for me writing a review. The cinematic and production of the movie was good, series history, it just became absolutely lame, there is no way than a person will react and take the decisions than the family in the movie did. A person with no arms and legs will be able to do more too try to survive. It was just desperate to watch how the history happened. Skip 100% and watch the remake from USA.

Um casal dinamarquês e sua filha, de férias na Itália, conhecem uma família holandesa e seu filho. Logo, as famílias se tornam amigas. Um tempo depois, o casal holandês convida o dinamarquês para passar um final de semana na casa deles. Eles aceitam, sem saber do que irão encontrar. Agora que eu assisti o filme dinamarquês, posso fazer uma análise dele e comparar com o americano. Em primeiro lugar, o original é muito melhor. A questão do incômodo dos dois filmes já é uma questão a ser tratada. No original, o incomodo vem dos limites que cada vez mais o casal holandês vai forçando, o que faz com que o dinamarquês vá se tornando cada vez mais passivo. O Patrick de Fedja van Huêt vai cometendo as suas indiscrições, mas mantém um sorriso no rosto. O Paddy do James McAvoy não é tão sutil como Patrick. Principalmente porque a toda hora ele se impõe através do seu corpo bombado. Paddy é um perigo iminente. Patrick é mais sinuoso. Outro ponto importante é o choque de culturas entre as duas famílias, ou talvez, o choque de estereótipos, com os nórdicos mais contidos e frios e os holandeses, mais desinibidos. No remake, não dá muito para fazer isso, já que temos 2 casais que falam o mesmo idioma e um país colonizou o outro. Assim, em vez de um choque de cultura, temos um choque de educação e sinceridade. No sentido, que o casal inglês fala o que pensa, sem filtro e o americano não quer constrangê-los. Pontos a favor do remake são o background para os personagens principais e a utilização do coelho de pelúcia das meninas de forma mais inteligente e necessária para a trama. O remake refaz boa parte das cenas originais. Pouca coisa é original. E aí chegamos a última parte do filme. O remake decide ir para um lado mais "americano de ser" no cinema. O original, apesar de muita gente não gostar, tem um final mais perto da realidade, se podemos dizer isso. Muita gente reclama da passividade dos dinamarqueses. Mas eles foram assim o filme todo e não seria no final que isso mudaria. Até porque, provavelmente, a maioria das pessoas comportaria da mesma forma que eles no final. Speak No Evil original é um terror psicológico, onde a revelação é o de menos, pois isso vem sendo bombardeado desde o início, com a trilha sonora. Os 2 elencos estão muito bem, defendendo muito bem seus personagens. Escolha o seu Speak No Evil.

I get the theme and overall message the director is trying to portray but its extremely frustrating and unrealistic when watching two parents struggling to get any backbone or fight upon the people that are trying to kill their family.

SPOILERS: I literally made a profile so I could review this movie poorly. My wife and I have been ranting about this for an hour. I don't know if Americans are possibly just built different, but there isn't a snowball's chance in Hell that these events would have unfolded in this way. The victims behaved in such a stupid and cowardly way, they made it impossible to root for them. I kept waiting for that moment when they would WAKE UP and fight for their lives or fight for their child, but it never came. With nary a weapon in sight, the couple simply complied with the psychopaths and allowed their child to be mutilated and taken, then they just cried as they were told to "strip down," walk into a ditch and be passively stoned to death. I mean, my God. I hate to victim blame, but in the case of these awful, pathetic "protagonists" I'm willing to make an exception.

Come for the social satire, stay for the unbelievably horrific final moments. This film does what great horror should do, stay with you and linger in the back of your mind like a nightmare you can not shake. A terrifying slow burn of a horror show. (Avoid the unnecessary American remake.)

This storyline is stupid, people just let someone do whatever they want to you.. If I tell you to jump off a bridge, will you? Well the spineless people in this movie would ask if you want a backflip aswell. The US version was much better. 1.5 stars because the execution was ok, but unfortunately the story sucks.

I don't usually write movie reviews. Good or bad. But I can't help myself on this one. I can't understand how this movie got an 84%. The only reason I watched til the end was because I could not believe how unbelievable it was, and I was convinced there would be some big crazy twist at the end to save the whole movie. There was not. Every angle of the plot is completely unbelievable. No normal person would make the decisions the characters in this movie make. And the fact that 3 adults, and 2 adolescents couldn't band together and disable 1 man, completely blows my mind. To actually think 84% of people found this believable, scares me. That's a lot of people running up the stairs to die instead of running out the door for help.

Only gave it four stars because the main couple of the story left me seething with anger.

If you're the type that likes movies like the Whale. Movies that go through painstaking measures to mask weaknesses and ineptitudes in an attempt to repackage them as though they're virtues then this is for you.

what a crappy and empty movie, it sucks in all possible ways. the remake however is amazing, in the remake they took the story upgraded it and gave it more depth and yes it became amazing. also the acting sucks in this movie not swollowed.

Great movie with a creeping sense of dread and a bleak climax. Better than the remake

Reviewers stating plot is ridiculous as people would not be so gullible in real life, I feel are missing the point altogether. It is social satire of how people will let others walk all over them as not to offend, contained within the vehicle of a brutal horror film. The weaponless antagonists may also be an allegory regarding the recent demographic changes within western Europe, but that is just my interpretation. I have not seen the remake and probably won't bother.

This was well acted and tension filled and very smart. Ruined by the extremely nihilistic and macabre ending. I'm glad the remake fixed some of the issues but there was some aspect to the original which was more intense. This would have been one of the best European horrors had they not put out a needlessly sick ending.

A slow burn an unflinching look at how social boundaries can be pushed and most will just go along with it and smile or put up with it even if what is going on could be sinister or lead to danger and they do it here brilliantly, it's uncomfortable to watch at times. Yes the couple are so weak as if you woudnt fight that scenario more but still a very good and dark movie with great performances all round. That ending is one of the darkest I've seen. Shocking!

This is a great movie. Filled with terrific performances. This is how to do a psychological thriller. Tim Treakle

Haven't seen the remake. Didn't know there was a remake. But I bet this one is better. Not for the faint of heart.

SPOILERS. Acting was great and the background music was pretty good but the story is a let down. No one in their right mind would act like the way the protagonists did at the end. I mean, I don't have kids but who in their right mind would sit next to their daughter without doing anything while a woman (who is not bigger than the mother) cuts out her tongue. That scene, in particular, ruined the movie for me. Any mother would die before she lets someone do that to her child. The less said about the father the better. Also, they just give up without a fight. I could understand the decision if the assailants were armed with guns or machetes at least. All they had was a SCISSOR. It was described as the most disturbing movie to have come out in the last few years. I would say it is the most disappointing one.

SPOILERS This bullshit is the peak of horror movie stupidity in the main two leads. And yes, while the horror truly punches you in the gut, the sheer frustration I felt when they ignore about 50 red flags and the way they give up for no GODDAMN REASON in the end overrode any kind of sympathy I felt towards them. Basically, as one conversation with a villain goes: "Why are you doing this?" "Because you let me." Yes. Pretty much. You let it. You let it like a limp dying fish. No parent would act this way. I don't even have kids but I do have a younger sister and I would literally die for her even in a worse situation. And the thing is, a single gun being in the picture would have fixed the utter bafflement I felt. The only thing the villains had were fists and one pair of ROUNDED on the end garden scissors. Are you telling me you are going to let them kill you when wielding those tiny ass sci- yes. you are. of course you are. They didn't even use the scissors, but rocks. ROCKS. Stupid script aside, the actors, cinematics and score were amazing, so I will give it some credit.