emilycons I'm not one for horror movies, like at all. I was nervous this movie would be super scary but I wanted to try it out anyway. This movie does a great job of being scary, but not so scary it's hard to watch. It was more intense and rather disturbing than it was scary and I loved it!

sergelamarche A bit comedic at the start, it goes into serial killer territory relatively quickly. Good new spin about a lethal gir...oh, little girl I mean. Not all that formulaic but it could have been better, and it will surely now that girls are the heroes.

josepainumkal Some films come with a mediocre outlook but surprise you with its content. And for me, this was one of them. The movie starts on a simple note; gradually turned to a mystery thriller and finally ends with a shocking suspense. The direction is top class and good enough to make viewers immerse fully into the story of the movie. Coming to the cast, Vera Farmiga, Isabelle and the kid Aryana gave an outstanding performance. Watch it with less expectation, and you will be amazed at its mysterious beauty.

cinemajesty 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)