Tarot (2024)

CinemaSerf

5.0

May 10, 2024

A group of twenty-somethings have rented a "literal" mansion (I wish writers would find out what that word means and use it properly!) and are having a few fireside beers outside it whilst subjecting us to their dull relationship issues. Needless to say the gang are a politically correct assemblage that tick just about every box and are frankly all pretty well deserving of what's to come. On that front, the clue's in the title. Exploring the house looking to top up their supply of booze, they find a locked room full of all things occult and that includes an unique set of tarot cards. Rather fo…

Can't have a movie with people of color or women anymore without someone being racist and sexist. That being said, this movie is... well, it's not the worst thing I've seen but that doesn't make it good either. The premise is a group of young adults go playing with tarot cards that don't belong to them and then the tarot cards come to life and start doing the murder because curses and vengeful spirits, also horoscopes and astrology are all the rage again, apparently. There's nothing new or original here and apart from one jump scare that got me, it's quite boring. There's one redeemin…

Aside from the novel pitch for diversity, does anyone really have this many diverse friends?, there's nothing terribly inspiring on offer with Tarot. To be fair Tarot has decently creepy visuals, a few well placed jump scares and tolerable acting. That said, its let down by a lack of originality, combined with an ultimately repetitious horror theme, that plays over and over, quickly becoming stale. In summary, what this film needed most was an injection of at least little originality and diversity of the story telling kind. Suffice to say, its mediocre rating, with me at least, was very…