This thriller based on the wildly popular book of the same name is … good enough. I enjoyed it! I’d read the book so, knowing how it ended, it wasn’t super thriller-ish for me but having really enjoyed the book, I did really like seeing it brought to life on the big screen.
Will it trouble the judging panels of upcoming Oscar and Emmy awards?* Nope. Is it just good old fashioned story telling done well for the masses? Yep.
Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney star and both do well, though particularly Seyfried who plays a woman … wait… I’ll stop. It’s best you go in blind I reckon. The Housemaid is getting quite mixed reviews. The Guardian and Mamamia loved it but The Age didn’t have much positive to say in their 2.5 star review. Read one of these reviews if you’d like some more details on the storyline but as I say - my advice is to just leap into this blind! (If you’ve read the book I reckon you’ll have the same take on the film as me.)
The Housemaid is in cinemas now. runs 2 hours 11 mins (20 mins too long) and is rated MA15+.
* I know that’s not how it works, don’t @ me!