'When the Bough Breaks' generally lacks tension, danger and suspense, hurt by that it treads familiar ground so often that any surprises or anything new cannot be seen. Sadly, that slow-burning suspense was far from sustained all the way through. First impressions were a promising start that did intrigue and had some slow-burning suspense. The production values are not too cheap and the music is ominous without being too intrusive or obvious. Definitely the best thing about the film. Williams and Morris Chestnut is better than average, Chestnut actually being quite good and suitably intensely brooding.

'When the Bough Breaks' does have good elements.

It was a real shame it wasn't that, but it could have been so much worse. Far from the truth, actually thought it had potential to be an unexceptional but not too bad film. As indicated just now, there was no initial bias against it or wanting to dislike it at all. The decent potential shown initially is sadly not sustained and generally not lived up to, so sadly 'When the Bough Breaks' is not a particularly good film either. It as a film is still not that much of a disaster too, there are merits here. 'When the Bough Breaks' was definitely not a film that sounded like it was going to be a disaster hearing about it. The cover gave the sense it would be fairly suspenseful and interesting. The premise for the story intrigued and sounded quite good, regardless of its lack of originality.

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