Gatlopp (2022) - Just felt like it was missing something

Sometimes you come across a film that you just can't place.  After watching 'Gatlopp' I honestly don't really know whether I liked it or not.  I managed to make it until the end (quite a lot of what I find on streaming services get turned off half way through!) so at least it held my attention for an hour and a half.

It's about four friends getting together to generally chat about old times, when one of them suggests they play a mysterious board game.  Naturally, there's more to it than your average game of Monopoly and soon supernatural shenanigans start to take over the night.

Each of the four characters has to work through their individual 'demons' in order to 'win' their part of the game.  It's supposed to be a 'comedy,' but I couldn't really find an awful lot of laughs contained within - it was more a supernatural character-based drama, but at least the four leads all had their time to take centre stage.  At first they seemed like the types who would never really be long-term friends, but, as the film progressed, they actually developed more chemistry and you could probably see them hanging out back in the day.

It's got enough nice touches in it to make it worth your while if you find it part of your own streaming package, but it's not the sort of film you'd probably feel is worth paying full price for a cinema ticket.

5/10 a hard trek, a bit like unicycling to Mordor and back