Movie: Cronos (1993)

I stumbled across this movie a few weeks ago and was so intrigued by its title that I finally read the brief synopsis of its story. I found myself pleasantly surprised because not only was it supposedly a new take on the vampire genre, but it had been made by "acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro"; surely it would satisfy and delight.

The movie begins slowly and while some might have issue with this, I did not, waiting almost eagerly for us to dive into the story. Shortly enough the old pawn shop owner, tipped if by Mr. Sketchy, discovers the device that prolongs life, in addition to its other side effects. It turns out that a rich business man and his nephew(Ron Perlman speaking Spanish!), are looking for the device for their own reasons. While the plot does pick up pace slightly, the movie seemingly plods along as our shop owner discovers, to his horror, his new found taste for blood and the efforts the "evil" duo will go to in order to secure the device.

In the background we have the shop owner's granddaughter looking on in silence for the entirety of the movie, though she does a commendable job of conveying emotions despite this and is probably the sole reason why the shop owner survives in the end.

The movie seemed to have in interesting premise and potential but at the end I was left with feelings of confusion, disappointment, and annoyance.

The below rating does not signify that the movie was bad, simply that certain issues prevented me from being satisfied with it despite the novelty of its story or the quality of its actors.

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