Film Review: "The Housemaid" (2025)
You wait one hour to get to the real plot.
Iâm all for the slow burn plots. The Housemaid challenged me on my patience.
To get to anything interesting, you sit through one entire hour of every movie youâve ever seen thrown together. This isnât the fault of the wonderful director known as Paul Feig, cast, or crew. The book.
When we do arrive at the twists and turns, you get annoyed with how simplistic the film was. When adapting the film, why couldnât the director take creative energy into doing whatever he wanted?
A sequel is in the works. đ„¶ Save us all. This movie cost $35 million. Think on that. For a $1-5 million film, I would probably be thrilled seeing that happen again. This movie doesnât have anything that looks like it costs that much. Really polished sets and wonderful directing and visuals, fair, but $35 million of it?
What I liked: Amanda Seyfriedâs acting, the valuable social messages on how difficult it is for the formerly incarcerated to rejoin the real world, the camp, the twists, the creepy almost horror plot that was very âI want to be Quentin Tarantino today, mom, please!â by the Willy Wonka blueberry girl giving us her unique prissy spin on Mr. Tarantino anything.
What I disliked: Sydney Sweeney boxed into playing the public interpretation of herself with wearing wardrobe you expect and another nude scene that adds nothing to the movie with that lead dude who wonât take off his clothes in equality, the first hour.
Whatâs real acting? That you reverse this. Make Amanda the temptress and Sydney the bossâ wife. Now thatâs a movie I wish to see and never will.
