6.9/10 Gets better and better the more ridiculous it gets. The ending really managed to breath life into the dullness of the first half. Excellent performances all around, even from the kids. Has all elements to be a really good movie, but it happens to be just ok. Probably worth watching, wasn't in flamboyant love with it. Really appreciated that it dared to go in such a twisted direction in the end.

OMG! The twist in this movie makes the whole thing even better than I thought it was up to that point. It's a really well crafted, nicely paced horror/thriller that has a frighteningly real aspect to it. It makes me question whether or not I should ever actually have kids LOL.

First of all, lets start on the acting. The acting is great on all the actors, its pretty realistic and i rate it 10/10. In this movie the child was not an ordinary one, I could see that from the start, i could see that she was gonna change the family, but i never thought she was gonna change the family for bad. I was shocked, but it was cool. I also loved the Russian accent, i don't know if it was made or really from that country, but it was really cool. The racist effect is that Russians are kinda blamed for murder, craziness and insanity, which showed effects on that kid. For example when she found the gun, she wanted to play Russian Roulete with her stepsister. Another issue is the bad ending. She really dies, but i feel bad for the husband. The husband loved the girl, he was always nice to her, why would he die? What about the stepsister? Why did she try to kill her. Anyways, generally it is a very cool and realistic horror movie.

Director Jaume Collet-Serra shows Hitchcockian-researched training skills in suspense building with the movie "Orphan" from 2009. Previously more on the slasher side of horror with a remake of the 1950s "House of Wax", fixing solid motion picture entertainment for Warner Bros. Pictures from 2005 to 2015 with a emotionally mixed "Run All Night", starring Ed Harris and Liam Neeson, with which the director had been collaborating frequently through the past seven years and again for the upcoming film called "The Commuter" (2018)."Orphan", released in Summer 2009, modestly successful at the U.S. box office, can not fulfill its potential of throughout suspense thriller. Main characters solidly performed by actors Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard, which are not given the subtleties to make the picture emotionally arresting enough to care for anything what is happening on-screen. The chemistry between the actors does hardly come to any peak moment in which the fire-starting character of Esther, performed by an 11-year old Isbelle Fuhrman, disturbs the all so unchallenged suburban home of a family of mother, father and two children.Shot entirely on Canadian soil, the story of "Orphan", pending between home-base at an unidentified countryside, visual-poorly perspective hospital sights and the occasional psychiatrist office visitation, which feel disconnected to any characters' emotional states. The character of Esther just nesting in the home of married couple Kate & John, painting, making up and dressing like 20 something young woman, which is then the single yet unsurprising twist in the picture, when a former psychologist gets called to explain verbally without any visual interpretation or reference that Esther is actually a 33-year-old woman in a girl-child's body.Director Jaume Collet-Serra does as good as he can to make "Orphan" motion picture entertainment. But in this case, the endeavour fails. Too many tension-dropping scenes follow one after another, so when it comes to the knife-slashing showdown from the interior basement of the house to ice-breaking floes of a nearby frozen lake exterior, the characters are degraded to fighting puppets with no identifiable esprit left for the audience to enjoy.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)