It starts off ok, kinda funny. But then it just can't decide what it wants to be. Is it a comedy? A thriller? a horror?
First I would like to say just how terrifying it would be for any phone to have the power it does in this movie. Like for real, this should be a horror movie.
The guy gets a phone and the phone slowly starts to take over his life. It verbally abuses and sexually harasses him. Eventually DMs his dick pics to work colleagues which gets him fired and then, it tries to kill him. And this is... funny? And at no time does the main character try to say to someone "oh my phone has gone psychotic" and try to get help. He just casually accepts that this is his new life now. And while he does try to ditch the phone, it was very half hearted. In fact in one scene he goes back for his phone because he doesn't know how to get home without it. And I mean, seriously? He doesn't know how to get home without his phone?
Add to this the stupid sex jokes that culminate in him having sex with the phone by repeatedly jamming the charger cord into it.
Then there is the really shallow problematic relationship he tries to have with someone he just met. This nice woman who doesn't seem at all surprised that this random stranger tracked her down at her work place and rang her. He eventually gets her number and within 30 seconds is declaring he is in love. He also tries to break up with her as soon as the ex-fiance is in the picture. Like, he was all, sorry, Im so insecure that you cant friends with your ex, so Im breaking up with you. She also doesn't seem to care that this guy knocks her ex-fiance out by hitting him in the neck for no reason other than he thought she was leaving with the ex-fiance (no self defence or anything). These are all RED FLAGS people. Red flags.
Review by SpiderkittenBlockedParent2022-12-22T23:41:06Z
Don't waste your time on this.
It starts off ok, kinda funny. But then it just can't decide what it wants to be. Is it a comedy? A thriller? a horror?
First I would like to say just how terrifying it would be for any phone to have the power it does in this movie. Like for real, this should be a horror movie.
The guy gets a phone and the phone slowly starts to take over his life. It verbally abuses and sexually harasses him. Eventually DMs his dick pics to work colleagues which gets him fired and then, it tries to kill him. And this is... funny? And at no time does the main character try to say to someone "oh my phone has gone psychotic" and try to get help. He just casually accepts that this is his new life now. And while he does try to ditch the phone, it was very half hearted. In fact in one scene he goes back for his phone because he doesn't know how to get home without it. And I mean, seriously? He doesn't know how to get home without his phone?
Add to this the stupid sex jokes that culminate in him having sex with the phone by repeatedly jamming the charger cord into it.
Then there is the really shallow problematic relationship he tries to have with someone he just met. This nice woman who doesn't seem at all surprised that this random stranger tracked her down at her work place and rang her. He eventually gets her number and within 30 seconds is declaring he is in love. He also tries to break up with her as soon as the ex-fiance is in the picture. Like, he was all, sorry, Im so insecure that you cant friends with your ex, so Im breaking up with you. She also doesn't seem to care that this guy knocks her ex-fiance out by hitting him in the neck for no reason other than he thought she was leaving with the ex-fiance (no self defence or anything). These are all RED FLAGS people. Red flags.