Right, well I have to admit that the synopsis for the 2019 movie "Stray" sounded rather interesting, and I was intrigued by it. Sure, I hadn't even heard about this movie from writers J. D. Dillard, Joe Sill and Alex Theurer before I had the chance to sit down in 2022 and watch it.

And I will say that "Stray" definitely started out interesting enough and up to about just before the halfway marker the movie was mysterious and appealing, but then the balloon just deflated and director Joe Sill lost control of the ship. The movie just crashed and became a scrambled mess of a confusing and boring storyline after that point, and I was fast losing interest in the movie.

The acting performances in the movie were adequate. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble here in "Stray", and that is something I enjoy in movies, as the performers aren't associated with previously portrayed roles or characters in other movies. The actors and actresses did fair jobs here, just a shame that the movie ended up sliding downhill.

Visually then "Stray" was certainly good. The special effects were nice to look at, appeared realistic and rather nicely made.

I have to admit that when "Stray" ended, I was left with an overwhelming sensation of 'what was this heap of a movie all about?'. This is not really a movie that entertained me or offered me with the enjoyment or thrills that I had expected. In fact, once the movie slipped from the grasp of director Joe Sill, it just never recovered, and the movie suffered terribly from that blow.

This is not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. I feel that my time was thoroughly wasted, given the movie so abruptly fell apart.

My rating of "Stray" lands on a mere three out of ten stars. There was potential, for sure, and the movie was off to a marvelous start, but then it just crashed and burned.

When a woman is found carbonized and petrified in a storehouse, Police Detective Stella Murphy (Christine Woods) is assigned by her chief Jake (Ross Partridge) to the case. Jake is Stella's former husband and they separated when their only child died in a tragic accident. Stella has just recovered from her loss and returned to the police department. The woman is identified as Kyoko (Saki Miata),and Detective Murphy goes to her home and meets her mother Seiko (Takayo Fischer) and her daughter Noriko (Karen Fukuhara). Soon Stella befriends Noriko and learns that her family has a secret power and is threatened by a mysterious biker (Miyavi).

"Stray" is an action film with a dark and depressive cinematography that could have been a great pilot of a series. The story has a great potential unfortunately wasted in a rushed screenplay that does not develop well the interesting and rich characters. Anyway, it is worthwhile watching this intriguing film with less expectations. My vote is six.

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You're beat to death.don't want to move and just want food and go to bed. This is the movie to watch. Good concept for a film. Unfortunately, the writers & director did not put it together properly. It's like water-down gruel.

There is no explanation what-so-ever except as a boy Jin protected his mom. This got him beaten by his mother, his granny would have nothing to do with him. They took him to a park, left him, and snuck off to America.

Why didn't mom or granny protect themselves? What happen to the rest of the family? Who did mom keeping sleeping with to have kids? The BIG one: Why wasn't who ever they were or what they could do explained? Had my salad and am going to bed now. Good night all. D~