Quick Bite: Tarot

I’m a little late to the game with Tarot. At first I was excited but when people started saying it was horrible, I hesitated. I shouldn’t have listened to the hate. Is Tarot a great movie? No. Is it bad? No. It’s a middle of the road, watered down, teen slasher movie that had good points and some not so good parts.

PLOT:

When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleashed an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.

Photo Credit: Screen Gems

Positives:

• Tarot is the typical teen/young adult slasher movie. 

• I enjoyed the aspect of the Tarot cards as the monsters. I liked the look of them.

• The cast was decent. Not too annoying like the typical horror movie.

• Jacob Batalon as Paxton gives the right amount of humor for me. In addition you have Olwen Fouéré as Alma (which was a much better role for her than that atrocious “other” movie I won’t mention. LOL)

Negatives:

• Being a PG-13 doesn’t help the kills. There are some kills, but not really graphic. I would have appreciated at least better kills.

• I wanted to see more of the Tarot card monsters. As with 13 Ghosts, there just wasn’t enough of the backstory told.

• There really isn’t a lot of character development to this movie. Not enough to really care, (however, they weren’t annoying either so there is that).

• Tarot doesn’t actually bring anything new to the slasher sub genre.

Overall, I had a good time with it. I don’t regret watching it. Despite the hate Tarot gets, it was ok. Go into it like it’s a watered down, teen slasher movie and you’ll have a better time with it.

Quick Bite rating: 3/5

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