A Sacrifice is a thriller that doesn’t lack for production value or acting… but it most definitely lacks for thrills or drama. Its a flick like a piece of IKEA furniture… everything you need for an entertainment center, unassembled and unrewarding in its unfinished state. And you know your knuckles are gonna get banged up and that tiny Allen wrench will do a number on your fingers… oops… I think the analogy wore out a sentence ago.

The flick stars Eric Bana as a social psychologist separated from his wife and working in Berlin. When his daughter (Sadie Sink) comes to visit, she immediately becomes the target of a local suicide cult. Can Bana amble to the finish line before they eventually get around to killing her?

Yes, this movie is slow and pretty banal. It looks good and I can’t take points away from Bana and Sink… they are good actors doing good work in a script that just isn’t interesting or paced well enough. The whole movie has a sluggish, uninvolved feel… even when the cultists finally grab Sink’s character and we creep towards the finale.

I want to give this uneventful flick a slight bump but its bummer mundanity prevents me. It just crawls to the finish line when it needed to run… or at least speed-walk. No, this flick was ultimately just too tepid to earn more than a measly two stars.

Score: 68