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Watch: Mama 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jeffrey Desange, senior partner of an investment brokerage, has a breakdown after a financial collapse and kills several co-workers and his estranged wife and kidnaps his two young daughters, Victoria and Lily. When they’re found five years later, they’re taken in by their uncle (their father’s twin brother) and his girlfriend. Macabre events soon make the new guardians suspect that a supernatural evil force named Mama has attached itself to the girls..
Plot: Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
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Ratings:

	6.2/10 Votes: 182,514
	63% | RottenTomatoes
	57/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 3709 Popularity: 27.111 | TMDB

Reviews:

**Inconstant, it starts well, but it gets worse and becomes tiring and boring. The ending is bad.**

Guillermo del Toro has already used us to visually striking and intense films, so I was little surprised to find his name attached to this film. I even thought that he would be the director, but the direction was in charge of Andy Muschietti, and Del Toro is just an executive producer, in a gesture that seems just a publicity stunt. In any case, the film is not bad, and it even manages to create some tension and suspense… but it is still far from being a truly good horror film, mainly because of its inconstancy.

When I say inconstancy, what I mean is that the film changes radically in the middle, for the worse: the script starts with a good initial premise, which is the death of the parents of the two children, who end up alone in a cabin in the woods. Five years later, however, they are found again in a mental and psychological state that borders on the wild. However, and in the midst of the legal battle for their custody, it becomes evident to those who care for them that the two children have conversations with an invisible entity, which they call Mama. Intense and disturbing, the film creates an impactful situation, with characters that we can like and that hold us to the film. The supernatural situation is intriguing, and the creature created for the film is intimidating and truly terrifying. At various times, I noticed similarities with cinematographic works like _The Exorcist_ and _The Orphanage_. So far, all great.

The problem is that, roughly halfway through, the film loses its momentum, so to speak. It’s as if the director had changed, or the film’s idea had been different, or they were different films. Everything becomes gradually more predictable, boring, uninteresting and tiring, and the scares and suspense gradually decrease. The creature, which before only appeared furtively and for a moment, is now fully visible, and that takes a lot of impact. The level of melodrama and sugar in the story also increases substantially. The end of the film is as unsatisfying as a sexual act interrupted midway because someone showed up at the wrong time. And I’d rather not talk about the various glitches of logic that start to appear, big as mansions, when we start to seriously think about all this!

The cast does what it can, and there are some efforts here that deserve to be highlighted. At the head we have two excellent child actresses, Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nelisse, who do everything impeccably and authentically surrender to their characters. More than any adult, they are the ones who deserve to be highlighted in this film, for the way they lived it all and contributed to the final product. Right after that, we have Jessica Chastain, who gives us yet another good, albeit imperfect, performance. I got the serious feeling that the actress wore a wig. If that wasn’t the case, at least it looked like it. And she never seemed to fit that character well either. Javier Botet also deserves praise for the commitment and patience with which he put up with hours of make-up. The rest of the cast isn’t so happy: Daniel Kash should have had more relevance in the plot, but we get the feeling that the character is dropped as quickly as possible, and Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau wasn’t used happily either, despite the talent and abilities of the actor.

Technically, the film has several points of merit that are worth watching carefully. This is the case with cinematography. The entire film was shot excellently, with careful and meticulous work from the cameras. The sharpness, the shadows, the lighting work and the dark and sometimes washed-out colors accentuate, in certain scenes, the atmosphere of tension and abandonment that can be felt by the audience. The visual effects work quite well, especially everything about the creature, which only loses interest when we can see it well. A good choice of sets and costumes also helped, and the CGI is elegant and satisfying until you reach the middle of the film, where it clearly loses quality and impact.

Some wicked creature design and good child actors make up for Mama’s “unfinished” feeling. Jessica Chastain delivers as usual.

Final rating:★★★ – I personally recommend you give it a go.

Not entirely feeling this Mama’s love sadly
This is meant in a genuine and not at all malicious way. ‘Mama’ is not a bad film. It’s also (this is all personal opinion, not objective) not a great film. It very nearly was and its potential was enormous, but this is one of the most frustrating recent examples of films of two halves.

‘Mama’ is absolutely great in the first half. It’s genuinely unnerving with a good deal of suspense in the ambiance and build-ups, beautifully timed jolts and spine-tingling scares without resorting to cheap gratuitous gore to make their mark. There are many horror influences here but not in a cheap or predictable way, almost in an affectionate homage sort of way without it meaning to be. The titular character is an ominously creepy presence for most of the film, there is a real sense of danger lurking around the corner at any time. There is something very beautiful and poignant about the story-telling too, underneath the horror was something more than that with at first characters one could connect with and a vulnerable edge that comes over movingly.

On the most part, ‘Mama’ looks good. It’s suitably unsettling but also beautifully shot with creepy and audacious production design and splendidly macabre and sometimes inventive visuals. For the first half of the film, a lot of thought went into the visual effects. The direction from Andy Muschietti shows successful attempts at taking risks rather than over-blowing things or taking it too safe, there is a lot of visual panache and a seeming appreciation for film not just of the horror genre but in general (some of it actually almost thriller-like).

Always look out for a good music score in film, being a musician and growing up in a musical family music is of great importance to me when watching film, television etc. ‘Mama’ has that, a lot of it is truly haunting while not being over-bearingly used.

Jessica Chastain may not convince as a punk rocker but gives a performance of intensity, steel and vulnerability. Have noticed that both here and in Muschietti’s latest film ‘IT’ that he brings the best out of child-acting, something that has wildly varied in film throughout history. Because ‘Mama’ is one of the finer recent examples of child acting that is remarkably mature, poised, natural, affecting and sometimes frightening. All of which achieved by Isabelle Nelisse and particularly Megan Charpentier. Daniel Kash makes the most of his problematic nearly pointless plot-device role, while Mama herself is voiced to unnerving effect and even more so in action with Javier Botet.

Which is why it is such a pity that at the midway point ‘Mama’ feels like a different film altogether with a second half that brings things down. The scares become less frequent, the pace lacks its tautness, the dialogue gets confused and things start becoming predictable and contrived. Due to plot devices not properly followed through, things that don’t add up sense-wise and some illogical character decisions.

The less frequent the scares got, Mama also diminished in the scare factor and was almost cartoonish and the effects start to lack finesse. Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau does his best but he is used terribly to the point that he is nearly completely wasted, despite his role in the story being important it’s not treated as importantly as ought and fairly indifferently done in execution.

Faring least is the ending, which was unsatisfying on every level as has been said. It is just far too ridiculously outlandish, feels tacked on and it’s also very vague in that it leaves questions without fully if at all answering them.

In conclusion, great first half but really disappoints in the second with a slap-in-the-face ending. A small 6/10, was very torn in what to give it having been so disappointed with its unevenness but its good elements and the first half were so well done that being too hard on it was a no-no. Bethany Cox

DON’T GO IN THE CLOSET
The film starts out as a mystery. Jeffrey (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) crashes his car with his two daughters inside. They find refuge in an abandoned cabin. As Jeffrey prepares to murder his daughters we see an entity grab him.

Five years later his brother (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is still searching for him. The searchers come across the now feral daughters (Megan Charpentier aka “The Red Queen”, Isabelle Nélisse) who are reunited with their uncle and his goth rocker tattooed girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain). How did they survive for five years in the wild? The older girl tells a story about “Mama” who protected them and provided for them.

The acting in this film was superior to most “B” horror films. The child actors did an excellent job. The special effects were decent. The scare factor was also fairly good and I found more chilling than the Paranormal series. Best seen in the dark with screaming tween girls.

Parental Guide: 1 f-bomb (Why did they do that?) No sex or nudity.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min)
Budget 15000000
Revenue 146497771
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Director Andy Muschietti
Writer Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Neil Cross
Actors Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier
Country Canada, Spain, Mexico
Awards 11 wins & 19 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, Datasat, SDDS, Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa, Cooke S4 Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Barcelona, Spain (digital intermediate), DeLuxe, Toronto, Canada (dailies post-production)
Film Length 2,736 m (Portugal, 35mm), 2,740 m (6 reels)
Negative Format Codex
Cinematographic Process ARRIRAW (2.8K) (source format), Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical) (Kodak Vision 2383), D-Cinema