Jinn (2014)

Jinn: Directed by Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad. With Dominic Rains, Ray Park, William Atherton, Faran Tahir. A man turns to a mysterious pair and a shackled mental patient for help in combating an ancient family curse.

“I got a free ticket to see this, and spent too much. The credits did not appear until the end of the movie, and that made it much clearer what was going on: There were a few names and surnames repeated several times in the credits, none of them well known as filmmakers. The director was listed as a main designer for the car that was featured, at length — not that it was particularly interesting as a car. Or a movie; the whole thing is padded absurdly. There might be a decent half-hour TV show buried in this mess, but the fact that thereu0026#39;s almost a half hour of setup before anything really happens is a giveaway of the pace of this thing. And once things start happening, they look like something from the 80u0026#39;s — at best. Nothing happens fast, and almost nothing happens only once; the director liked some of his shots so much we see them several times. Even the scene after the credits is pointless.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDonu0026#39;t get me wrong — I like outsider films. The original Gone in 60 Seconds, for example, is a classic. This has none of the pacing or wit of that movie, or any other decent one.”