Death of a Unicorn (2025)

Confused, unfunny, and POINTless - Death of a Unicorn review by AER

Hollywood is going through an interesting time at the moment because we are back to seeing interesting films on the cinema once again. The stranglehold of remakes, reboots, sequels, superheroes is continuing to wain (thank goodness). However, Death of a Unicorn only serves to remind us that original content can yield bad results too. A few good ideas can't bring this wacky and unfunny horror comedy through. It reminded me of Hudson Hawk with it's big swings into thin air, it's cavalcade of unlikeable characters and (intentionally) shonky SFX. An all-star cast including Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, Will Poulter, Tea Leoni (where has she been!!!), Richard E Grant, and Steve Park pull in many different directions and (for once) the exposition of the original unicorn myth isn't made clear enough; all this adds up to a confusing, muddled, tonally uneven, unfunny film. It's not awful, but not as inspired or original as I had hoped it would be.