Film Review – M3GAN

In 2019, producers attempted to revive a sagging franchise with a remake of “Child’s Play,” endeavoring to offer an updated Chucky for a modern era, turning the “friend to the end” into a high-tech machine, giving the feature a technophobia touch. Viewers largely ignored the effort, but that doesn’t stop “M3GAN” from attempting the same idea, with screenwriter Akeela Cooper fairly shameless about lifting ideas from the world of “Child’s Play,” aiming to bring her version of a killer doll to the screen. Familiarity is everywhere in “M3GAN,” which doesn’t offer much in the way of originality, but it does have tremendous entertainment value at times. Director Gerard Johnstone (“Housebound”) doesn’t go trashy with the film, but he does create an appealing air of unease around the eponymous robot, giving the picture a few suspenseful highlights and an overall tone of danger without slipping into straight horror happenings. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com